configure-secret-scan

configure-secret-scan is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from harness/harness-skills. It costs 164 tokens per session (2,604 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A setup guide for adding secret scanning to an existing Harness pipeline. Secret scanning looks for exposed credentials, API keys, tokens, and other sensitive data in a code repository.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to configure Harness STO scanning with Harness Code, Gitleaks, or Semgrep in an existing pipeline. It helps inspect pipeline stages, find the repository connector, and identify existing scanning steps.
Why use it?
It helps prevent sensitive values from being committed or distributed through code. It also guides the agent through checking the pipeline and its repository connection before adding a scanner.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Good fit Use it to configure Harness STO scanning with Harness Code, Gitleaks, or Semgrep in an existing pipeline. It helps inspect pipeline stages, find the repository connector, and identify existing scanning steps.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/harness/harness-skills/configure-secret-scan
Install

Getting it into your agent

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

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 164 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,604 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. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector warn 7 Sept 2026
SkillSpector: 1 finding, up to medium

These are SkillSpector’s own severities. On a checked sample its high-severity flags on skills were ~96% false positives — a documented command, a public API, a “never do X” rule — so we show them as a caution to read, not a verdict. Why →

  • medium Excessive Agency · line 259
    Skill enables autonomous high-impact decisions without human-in-the-loop verification. Critical operations (destructive commands, financial transactions, data deletion) should require explicit user confirmation.
    Fix: Add human-in-the-loop confirmation for destructive, irreversible, or high-impact operations. Never auto-execute commands that modify files, send data, or alter system state.
How audits are shown
Origin original No closer match found 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 $0.00164 $0.02604
Opus 5 $0.00082 $0.01302
Sonnet 5 $0.00033 $0.00521
Haiku 4.5 $0.00016 $0.00260

Measured 12d ago against content hash 3de3c7c8a7a1, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

configure-secret-scan 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 12d 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

Copies of this mod

1 near-identical copy found in the catalogue:

skills/configure-secret-scan/SKILL.md · 295 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 295 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Configure Secret Scan

Add secret detection scanning steps to existing Harness pipelines using Harness STO. Scans code repositories for exposed credentials, API keys, tokens, and other sensitive information.

Instructions

Step 1: Establish Scope and Pipeline Context

Ask the user for the organization, project, and pipeline identifier if not already known. This skill only works with existing pipelines.

Call MCP tool: harness_get
Parameters:
  resource_type: "pipeline"
  resource_id: "<pipeline_identifier>"
  org_id: "<organization>"
  project_id: "<project>"

Step 2: Extract Repository Connector from Pipeline

Parse the pipeline YAML to automatically identify the repository connector.

  • For v0 pipelines: Check pipeline.properties.ci.codebase.connectorRef
  • For v1 pipelines: Check the codebase connector in the pipeline configuration

If no connector is found, inform the user the pipeline has no codebase configuration and cannot proceed with secret scanning.

Step 3: Analyze Pipeline Structure

Parse the pipeline YAML to identify all stages, steps, and any existing secret scanning steps.

Present the structure to the user:

Pipeline: <name>

Stage 1: <stage_name> (type: <stage_type>)
  - Step 1: <step_name> (type: <step_type>)
  ...

Ask where to insert the secret scan step — before or after which step, or at the end of which stage. Recommend adding it early in the CI stage, before build steps, so secrets are caught before any artifacts are produced.

Step 4: Recommend Scanner Type

Present the available secret detection scanners supported in Harness STO:

Top recommendation:

  • Harness Code (default — native Harness scanner, zero config, integrated SAST + SCA + secret detection in a single step)

Dedicated standalone secret scanner:

  • Gitleaks (recommended if user wants a dedicated secret-only scanner — open-source, no paid license, built-in scanner available)

Other scanners that also detect secrets as a side effect (findings appear under the "Secret" issue type alongside SAST/SCA results):

  • Aqua Trivy (open-source)
  • Checkmarx (commercial)
  • Checkmarx One (commercial)
  • Fossa (commercial)
  • Semgrep (open-source core / commercial)
  • Snyk (commercial)
  • SonarQube (commercial)
  • Wiz (commercial)

Read the full file on GitHub · 295 lines

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. 12d ago First seen · 295 lines · 164 tokens per session scan A 3de3c7c8a7a1

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configure-secret-scan is a skill published in the GitHub repository harness/harness-skills (105 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 164 tokens to every session and 2,604 once invoked, about $0.0008 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.

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