auth-guide

auth-guide is a skill for Claude Code from makenotion/notion-cookbook. It costs 70 tokens per session (3,122 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide for authenticating a Notion Worker, a small program that connects Notion to another service. It explains when to use an API key, personal access token, OAuth, or environment secrets.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when a worker must connect to services such as GitHub, Stripe, Salesforce, Google, or Slack and needs credentials to call their APIs.
Why use it?
It helps choose an appropriate way to store and use third-party credentials without asking people to share secrets in chat. It also requires checking the service's current authentication documentation.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: user-invocable in frontmatter.

Good fit Use it when a worker must connect to services such as GitHub, Stripe, Salesforce, Google, or Slack and needs credentials to call their APIs.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/makenotion/notion-cookbook/auth-guide
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 makenotion/notion-cookbook --skill auth-guide
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/makenotion/notion-cookbook

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 70 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,122 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 1 finding. 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: 14 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 148
    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 220
    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 223
    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 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 26
    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 223
    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 17
    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 181
    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 185
    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 188
    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 198
    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.
  • medium Excessive Agency · line 13
    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.
  • medium Data Exfiltration · line 81
    Data is being sent to an external URL. This could be legitimate telemetry or data exfiltration. Manual review is recommended.
    Fix: Verify the destination URL is trusted and necessary. Remove or replace with documented APIs. Ensure no secrets, tokens, or PII are transmitted.
  • medium Data Exfiltration · line 89
    Data is being sent to an external URL. This could be legitimate telemetry or data exfiltration. Manual review is recommended.
    Fix: Verify the destination URL is trusted and necessary. Remove or replace with documented APIs. Ensure no secrets, tokens, or PII are transmitted.
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 $0.00070 $0.03122
Opus 5 $0.00035 $0.01561
Sonnet 5 $0.00014 $0.00624
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00312

Measured 11d ago against content hash 0aa11ca2c47f, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

auth-guide scanned grade A with 1 finding 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 11d 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.

Makes network callslowCapability

Not a fault in itself. Listed so you know the mod talks to something, and to what.

curl -H "Authorization: Bearer $GITHUB_API_TOKEN" https://api.github.com/user
workers/agents/skills/auth-guide/SKILL.md · 255 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 255 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

What this guide is for

This guide is for authentication against the third-party service your worker integrates with — the place data is coming from or going to (GitHub, Stripe, Salesforce, Google, Slack, etc.).

Use it when the worker needs credentials for a non-Notion API. Do not use it for Notion API tokens, ntn login, or general Notion workspace setup.

Never ask the user to send secret or environment-variable values in chat. For environment secrets, tell the user which variables are needed and have them enter the values directly in .env themselves. Do not open or print .env after they add them.

Most workers will use one of two auth patterns from the upstream service:

  • personal API key / personal access token
  • OAuth

For a personal API key / PAT, use a brokered credential unless worker code must read the plaintext value.

Decision framework

Before recommending anything, check the provider's current developer docs. Confirm whether it offers:

  • personal API keys / personal access tokens
  • OAuth
  • neither

Always research the provider's current auth docs on the web before advising the user. Do not rely on memory for auth availability, setup steps, or settings locations.

Then choose mechanically:

  1. Service offers personal API keys / PATs? Recommend a brokered credential first when the credential is only used in outbound request headers to known domains. Otherwise, use the API key / PAT as an environment secret because worker code needs the plaintext value. It is usually the simplest fit for an individual-scoped worker.
  2. Service is OAuth-only? Use OAuth.
  3. Both exist, but the worker should not depend on one person's credential or should be easy to re-auth if that person leaves? Recommend OAuth.
  4. Service has neither? See "When neither option is available" at the end of this guide.

State the recommendation in one sentence with the reason. Example: "Linear offers personal API keys, so use a brokered credential; it's the simplest fit and keeps the token out of the worker runtime."

Read the full file on GitHub · 255 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. 11d ago First seen · 255 lines · 70 tokens per session scan A 0aa11ca2c47f

Subscribe to this mod's changes

auth-guide is a skill published in the GitHub repository makenotion/notion-cookbook (206 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 70 tokens to every session and 3,122 once invoked, about $0.0003 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 1 finding (makes network calls). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.

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