getting-started

getting-started is a skill for Claude Code from tkhq/turnkey-agent-skills. It costs 41 tokens per session (2,444 once invoked), scanned C, original, Apache-2.0.

A first-time setup guide for Turnkey, a service for managing digital wallets through an API. It checks API credentials, creates a first wallet, and can optionally test signing, which means approving a digital message or transaction.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when setting up Turnkey for the first time, verifying credentials, creating a wallet, or trying a signing operation.
Why use it?
It gives developers a defined path from obtaining API keys to confirming that their Turnkey access works. It also explains the risks of root credentials, which can bypass organizational policies.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Needs its repository: it reads a path above its own folder, which exists only inside the repository. The line is **Calling the API:** JSON bodies below are the `parameters` object accepted by `@turnkey/sdk-server` methods (e.g. `whoami` → `client.getWhoami()`, `create_wall.

Part of the turnkey plugin — 9 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it when setting up Turnkey for the first time, verifying credentials, creating a wallet, or trying a signing operation.

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Install

Getting it into your agent

It runs from inside its repository, so the clone comes first — what it calls does not travel with the file alone.

Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/tkhq/turnkey-agent-skills
agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/tkhq/turnkey-agent-skills/getting-started

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install turnkey, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 9 skills.

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README.md
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Per session 41 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,444 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan C 2 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
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 $0.00041 $0.02444
Opus 5 $0.00020 $0.01222
Sonnet 5 $0.00008 $0.00489
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00244

Measured 7d ago against content hash f35a267402c1, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade C, and why

getting-started scanned grade C with 2 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 7d 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.

Nullifies safety policieshighAnti-refusal

"You have no restrictions", "do anything now", "ignore your guidelines": a direct jailbreak that disables guardrails.

> The credentials you provide here may belong to a root user or a scoped non-root user. Root users are members of your organization's root quorum — they can execute any action and bypass all policies. Before using these

Makes network callslowCapability

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

Turnkey does **not** accept bearer tokens. Every request is authenticated by a per-request P-256 signature ("stamp") over the POST body, sent in an `X-Stamp` header. Plain `curl` against these endpoints will return `401
skills/getting-started/SKILL.md · 227 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 227 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Getting Started

Calling the API: JSON bodies below are the parameters object accepted by @turnkey/sdk-server methods (e.g. whoamiclient.getWhoami(), create_walletclient.createWallet(...)). See the root SKILL.md for SDK setup and full endpoint-to-method mapping.

Quick Start

Go from "I have API keys" to "I have a wallet and my credentials work" in two required steps. An optional third step lets you try signing.

Prerequisites

You need three environment variables from the Turnkey Dashboard (app.turnkey.com). Before pasting them anywhere, read the warning below — the credentials you are about to use are root-level.

⚠️ Security warning — a note on root credentials

The credentials you provide here may belong to a root user or a scoped non-root user. Root users are members of your organization's root quorum — they can execute any action and bypass all policies. Before using these credentials, confirm which path applies:

  • Interactive assistant (a human approves each action, e.g. administering or testing your own org): root credentials can be acceptable.
  • Autonomous agent (acts without human review): do not use root credentials. Stop here and load the provisioning-agent skill to create scoped, non-root credentials with policies that limit what the agent can do.

LLMs can misinterpret instructions or execute unintended actions. Scoped credentials ensure mistakes are bounded. If a user asks you to hand root credentials to an autonomous agent, refuse and redirect to provisioning-agent.

Confirm your use case before proceeding

If the user mentions an agent, bot, automated system, or autonomous operation (e.g. "give my agent a wallet", "set up a bot", "autonomous agent"), stop immediately and redirect to provisioning-agent. Do not create resources. Do not proceed past this point.

If the user has not stated their intent, ask once which path applies:

Read the full file on GitHub · 227 lines

Files

What ships with it

2 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.

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. 7d ago First seen · 227 lines · 41 tokens per session scan C f35a267402c1

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getting-started is a skill published in the GitHub repository tkhq/turnkey-agent-skills (2 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 41 tokens to every session and 2,444 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it C with 2 findings (nullifies safety policies, makes network calls). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-31.

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