managing-github-actions-secrets

managing-github-actions-secrets is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from PostHog/posthog-foss. It costs 67 tokens per session (811 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide for creating or updating secrets used by GitHub Actions, GitHub’s system for running automated workflows. It stores secrets at the PostHog organization level and limits access to selected repositories.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when adding, rotating, or connecting API tokens, registry credentials, deploy keys, or other values referenced by GitHub workflow files.
Why use it?
It prevents credentials from being placed in the wrong repository or exposed in chat, commits, files, or shell history.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one. Also seen: installed under .agents/ (shared by several agents).

Good fit Use it when adding, rotating, or connecting API tokens, registry credentials, deploy keys, or other values referenced by GitHub workflow files.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/posthog/posthog-foss/managing-github-actions-secrets
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add PostHog/posthog-foss --skill managing-github-actions-secrets
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/PostHog/posthog-foss

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 67 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 811 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 39
    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 $0.00067 $0.00811
Opus 5.5 $0.00027 $0.00324
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00013 $0.00162
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00081

Measured 1mo ago against content hash 7cec6518de0f, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

managing-github-actions-secrets 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 1mo 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.

.agents/skills/managing-github-actions-secrets/SKILL.md · 84 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 84 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Managing GitHub Actions secrets for PostHog

PostHog centralizes all GitHub Actions secrets at the organization level and grants individual repositories access to them. Do not add secrets to a single repo, even if the secret is only consumed by one workflow today.

The rule

  • Always create secrets on the posthog org, not on a repo.
  • Grant the secret to specific repos via the org-level access control (selected repositories). Do not make it available to all repos by default unless the secret is genuinely meant to be shared org-wide.
  • Never paste secret values into chat, PR descriptions, commit messages, or files. Pipe them in, or paste them only into the GitHub UI's secret field.

Creating or updating a secret via gh CLI

Pipe the secret value into gh secret set with --org posthog. The example below reads the value from stdin so it never appears in shell history:

# Read from clipboard / a pipe / a file — never inline as an argument
pbpaste | gh secret set POSTHOGOS_PACKAGER_KEY --org posthog

Common variants:

# From a file
gh secret set POSTHOGOS_PACKAGER_KEY --org posthog < secret.txt

# Restrict to selected repositories at creation time
gh secret set POSTHOGOS_PACKAGER_KEY --org posthog \
  --visibility selected --repos PostHog/posthog,PostHog/posthog-foss

# Update which repos can access an existing org secret
gh secret set POSTHOGOS_PACKAGER_KEY --org posthog \
  --visibility selected --repos PostHog/posthog

Verify:

gh secret list --org posthog | grep POSTHOGOS_PACKAGER_KEY

Creating or updating a secret via the GitHub UI

  1. Open https://github.com/organizations/PostHog/settings/secrets/actions.
  2. Click New organization secret (or the existing secret to update it).
  3. Set the Name (SCREAMING_SNAKE_CASE, descriptive, like POSTHOGOS_PACKAGER_KEY).
  4. Paste the Value.
  5. Under Repository access, choose Selected repositories and pick the exact repos that need it. Avoid All repositories unless the secret is safe to expose to every repo in the org.
  6. Click Add secret / Update secret.

Read the full file on GitHub · 84 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. 1mo ago First seen · 84 lines · 67 tokens per session scan A 7cec6518de0f

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managing-github-actions-secrets is a skill published in the GitHub repository PostHog/posthog-foss (724 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 67 tokens to every session and 811 once invoked, about $0.0003 per session on Opus 5.5. 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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