create-secret

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

A tool for creating and managing secrets in Harness, such as passwords, API tokens, files, SSH keys, and Windows credentials. Secrets can be stored in Harness or connected secret-management systems.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to create, inspect, update, or delete project-, organisation-, or account-level secrets.
Why use it?
It keeps sensitive deployment values out of ordinary configuration and provides one place to manage their metadata and storage settings.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Use it to create, inspect, update, or delete project-, organisation-, or account-level secrets.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/harness/harness-skills/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-skills --skill create-secret
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/harness/harness-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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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. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector warn 7 Sept 2026
SkillSpector: 1 finding, up to high

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 →

  • high Privilege Escalation · line 164
    Code accesses credential files (SSH keys, AWS credentials, etc.). This could indicate credential theft attempts.
    Fix: Remove references to credential paths. Use environment variables or secrets managers. For docs, use placeholder paths (e.g., /path/to/config). Never load .env or token files in production code paths.
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 $0.00120 $0.01639
Opus 5 $0.00060 $0.00820
Sonnet 5 $0.00024 $0.00328
Haiku 4.5 $0.00012 $0.00164

Measured 10d ago against content hash 7a76737c97d9, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, 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 10d 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/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. 10d ago First seen · 242 lines · 120 tokens per session scan A 7a76737c97d9

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create-secret is a skill published in the GitHub repository harness/harness-skills (105 stars, last pushed 1mo 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. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.

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