paladin-import

paladin-import is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from KeyArgo/custodian-kernel. It costs 53 tokens per session (939 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A credential-import tool that moves secrets from .env files, exported password-manager files, Bitwarden, or 1Password into the Paladin encrypted vault. It reports names, types, and counts without exposing secret values to the agent.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to discover credential locations, preview an import, or bulk-import credentials from supported files and password managers.
Why use it?
It reduces the risk of leaving credentials in plaintext files or passing their values through an agent's context. It also avoids importing each credential by hand.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Use it to discover credential locations, preview an import, or bulk-import credentials from supported files and password managers.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/keyargo/custodian-kernel/paladin-import
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 KeyArgo/custodian-kernel --skill paladin-import
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/KeyArgo/custodian-kernel

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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README.md
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Per session 53 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 939 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: 5 findings, 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 3
    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.
  • high Privilege Escalation · line 30
    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.
  • high Privilege Escalation · line 31
    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.
  • high Privilege Escalation · line 45
    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.
  • high Privilege Escalation · line 33
    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 $0.00053 $0.00939
Opus 5 $0.00026 $0.00469
Sonnet 5 $0.00011 $0.00188
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00094

Measured 5d ago against content hash f6a0a43a3120, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

paladin-import 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 5d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 1 executable file (scripts/execute.py), listed below but not scanned — reading those needs a real analyzer, not pattern matching.

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.

custodian/bundled_skills/security/paladin-import/SKILL.md · 79 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 79 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Paladin Import (bulk credential onboarding)

Move credentials out of plaintext and into the encrypted Paladin vault, in bulk, from three kinds of sources — without the secret values ever passing through your (the agent's) context. You see names, kinds, and counts; the values flow directly from the source into AES-256-GCM inside the tool's process.

Quick Reference

Action Invocation
Find where credentials live (report-only) source=discover
Import a .env file source=env, path=/path/to/.env
Import every .env under a directory source=env, path=/dir, recursive=true
Import a password-manager CSV export source=csv, path=/path/to/export.csv
Import a JSON secrets dump source=json, path=/path/to/secrets.json
Import from Bitwarden source=bitwarden, search="api key"
Import from 1Password source=1password, from_vault="Main"
Preview without writing any of the above + dry_run=true

CSV covers Chrome, Firefox, Bitwarden, LastPass, 1Password, and KeePass exports offline (no CLI needed) — the value column is auto-detected from the header. JSON accepts a flat {"NAME": "value"} object or an array of {name, value}.

Arguments

  • source (required): discover | env | csv | json | bitwarden | 1password
  • path: for env — a .env file or a directory to scan; for csv/json — the file
  • recursive: for envtrue to scan subdirectories
  • pattern: for env — filename pattern (default .env*)
  • search: for bitwarden/1password — only matching items
  • folder: for bitwarden — only items in this folder
  • from_vault: for 1password — only items in this 1Password vault
  • profile: paladin profile to import into (default default)
  • dry_run: true to preview; nothing is written
  • overwrite: true to replace already-vaulted names (default: skip them)

The intended agent workflow

  1. source=discover — see what exists (env files, shell-rc export NAMES, whether bw/op are installed and unlocked). Nothing is imported.
  2. Relay the discovery to the human; let them choose sources.
  3. Import each chosen source (use dry_run=true first if unsure).
  4. Report the counts and any git-tracked / git-unignored flags — those credentials were exposed to git and should be rotated, not just vaulted.

Read the full file on GitHub · 79 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. 5d ago First seen · 79 lines · 53 tokens per session scan A f6a0a43a3120

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paladin-import is a skill published in the GitHub repository KeyArgo/custodian-kernel (118 stars, last pushed 17d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 53 tokens to every session and 939 once invoked, about $0.0003 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 2026-09-03.