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.
npx skills add pbc-os/smb-starter-kit --skill secrets-managergit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/pbc-os/smb-starter-kitWrote 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.
[](https://agentmods.dev/skills/pbc-os/smb-starter-kit/secrets-manager)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/pbc-os/smb-starter-kit/secrets-manager"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/pbc-os/smb-starter-kit/secrets-manager.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>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.
| Model | Per session | Once invoked |
|---|---|---|
| Fable 5.1 | $0.00052 | $0.02933 |
| Opus 5 | $0.00026 | $0.01466 |
| Sonnet 5 | $0.00010 | $0.00587 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00005 | $0.00293 |
Grade A, and why
secrets-manager 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.
How it starts
The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 292 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
Secrets Manager — Give Your AI Agent Keys to the Kingdom
1. The Vision: Why This Changes Everything
Right now you're chatting with an AI. That's 1% of what's possible.
Without secrets management, your AI agent is a brain in a jar — it can think, but it can't do anything:
┌─────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
│ WITHOUT SECRETS │
│ │
│ You ──── text ────► [ AI Agent ] ──── text ───► You
│ (brain in a jar) │
│ │
│ ❌ Can't read email ❌ Can't run ads │
│ ❌ Can't check inventory ❌ Can't pull analytics │
│ ❌ Can't manage orders ❌ Can't post content │
│ ❌ Can't send invoices ❌ Can't automate anything│
│ │
│ It's a walkie-talkie. You talk. It talks back. │
│ That's it. │
└─────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘
Now look what happens when you give the agent secure access to your tools:
┌──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
│ WITH SECRETS MANAGEMENT │
│ │
│ ┌──────────┐ │
│ ┌────────►│ Gmail │ Read/send email │
│ │ └──────────┘ │
│ │ ┌──────────┐ │
│ ├────────►│ Square │ POS, inventory, orders │
│ │ └──────────┘ │
│ │ ┌──────────┐ │
│ You ──►[ AI AGENT ]─┼────────►│ Google Ads│ Run campaigns │
│ │ └──────────┘ │
│ │ ┌──────────┐ │
│ ├────────►│Mailchimp │ Email marketing │
│ │ └──────────┘ │
│ │ ┌──────────┐ │
│ ├────────►│QuickBooks│ Accounting │
│ │ └──────────┘ │
│ │ ┌──────────┐ │
│ └────────►│ Walmart │ Ecommerce │
│ └──────────┘ │
│ │
│ Every API key = a new superpower. │
│ Secrets management = the secure vault that holds them all. │
└──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘
What ships with it
10 files 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.
- README.md 3.2 KB
- references/1password-connect.md 7.3 KB
- references/aws-secrets-manager.md 7.6 KB
- references/azure-key-vault.md 6.8 KB
- references/doppler.md 7.5 KB
- references/gcp-secret-manager.md 7.1 KB
- references/hashicorp-vault.md 9.2 KB
- references/platform-comparison.md 8.0 KB
- scripts/test_secret.sh 10 KB runs code
- scripts/verify_access.sh 11 KB runs code
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.
- 8d ago First seen · 292 lines · 52 tokens per session scan A a77d8aebe20d
secrets-manager is a skill published in the GitHub repository pbc-os/smb-starter-kit (10 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 52 tokens to every session and 2,933 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 2026-08-31.
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