create-secret

create-secret is a skill for Claude Code from harness/harness-ai. It costs 120 tokens per session (1,639 once invoked), scanned A, a copy of create-secret, Apache-2.0.

A tool for creating and managing Harness secrets, such as passwords, API tokens, files, SSH keys, and Windows credentials. Harness is a platform for deploying and operating software, and secret managers store sensitive values securely.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to list, inspect, create, update, or delete Harness secrets stored in Harness, HashiCorp Vault, AWS Secrets Manager, Azure Key Vault, or Google Cloud Secret Manager.
Why use it?
It avoids manually writing secret definitions and supports different secret types, scopes, and storage systems.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the harness plugin — 55 skills, 1 MCP server shipped together

Good fit Use it to list, inspect, create, update, or delete Harness secrets stored in Harness, HashiCorp Vault, AWS Secrets Manager, Azure Key Vault, or Google Cloud Secret Manager.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/harness/harness-ai/create-secret
Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

Any agent
npx skills add harness/harness-ai --skill create-secret
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/harness/harness-ai

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install harness, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 55 skills, 1 MCP server.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

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README.md
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Per session 120 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,639 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
Origin 100% copy Near-identical to another mod in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00120 $0.01639
Opus 5 $0.00060 $0.00820
Sonnet 5 $0.00024 $0.00328
Haiku 4.5 $0.00012 $0.00164

Measured 8d ago against content hash 7a76737c97d9, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

create-secret scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 8d ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

Origin

This is a copy

100% identical to create-secret — 0 lines differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.

plugins/claude/skills/create-secret/SKILL.md · 242 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 242 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Create Secret Skill

Generate Harness Secret definitions and manage secrets via MCP v2 tools.

MCP v2 Tools Used

Tool Resource Type Purpose
harness_list secret List existing secrets
harness_get secret Get secret metadata (not the value)
harness_create secret Create a new secret
harness_update secret Update secret metadata or value
harness_delete secret Delete a secret
harness_describe secret Discover secret resource schema

Secret Types

SecretText

Stores text-based secrets: passwords, API tokens, connection strings.

secret:
  identifier: my_api_key
  name: My API Key
  description: API key for external service
  type: SecretText
  spec:
    secretManagerIdentifier: harnessSecretManager
    valueType: Inline
    value: <secret_value>

For other secret types (SecretFile, SSHKey with KeyReference/KeyPath/Password, WinRmCredentials with NTLM/Kerberos) and secret manager configuration, consult references/secret-types.md.

Secret Scopes

Scope Visibility MCP Parameters
Project Only within the project org_id + project_id
Organization All projects in the org org_id only
Account All orgs and projects Neither org_id nor project_id

Instructions

Step 1: Determine Requirements

  • Secret type: SecretText, SecretFile, SSHKey, or WinRmCredentials
  • Secret manager: Harness built-in or external
  • Scope: project, org, or account
  • Tags and description for organization

Step 2: Check for Existing Secrets

harness_list(
  resource_type="secret",
  org_id="<org>",
  project_id="<project>",
  search_term="<keyword>"
)

Step 3: Create the Secret

harness_create(
  resource_type="secret",
  org_id="<org>",
  project_id="<project>",
  body={
    "secret": {
      "identifier": "my_api_key",
      "name": "My API Key",
      "type": "SecretText",
      "spec": {
        "secret_manager_identifier": "harnessSecretManager",
        "value_type": "Inline",
        "value": "<value>"
      }
    }
  }
)

Read the full file on GitHub · 242 lines

Files

What ships with it

1 file beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 8d ago First seen · 242 lines · 120 tokens per session scan A 7a76737c97d9

Subscribe to this mod's changes

create-secret is a skill published in the GitHub repository harness/harness-ai (19 stars, last pushed 16d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 120 tokens to every session and 1,639 once invoked, about $0.0006 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 100% identical to create-secret, differing in 0 lines, and is treated as a copy.

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