hunting-non-human-identity-and-secret-reachability

hunting-non-human-identity-and-secret-reachability is a skill for Claude Code from UnboundCompute/security-agent-skills. It costs 151 tokens per session (1,566 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A method for assessing machine credentials such as API keys, service-account credentials, and long-lived tokens across code, configuration, infrastructure files, builds, and running systems.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to triage exposed secrets, review machine identities, and estimate the damage from a leaked credential.
Why use it?
A secret scanner only shows that a credential exists. This helps determine whether it still works, what it can access, and whether an attacker can reach it.

Skill for Claude Code

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

Part of the security-agent-skills plugin — 194 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it to triage exposed secrets, review machine identities, and estimate the damage from a leaked credential.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/unboundcompute/security-agent-skills/hunting-non-human-identity-and-secret-reachability
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add UnboundCompute/security-agent-skills --skill hunting-non-human-identity-and-secret-reachability
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/UnboundCompute/security-agent-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install security-agent-skills, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 194 skills.

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Per session 151 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,566 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.
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 $0.00151 $0.01566
Opus 5.5 $0.00060 $0.00626
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00030 $0.00313
Haiku 4.5 $0.00015 $0.00157

Measured 1mo ago against content hash dfe36fd33291, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

hunting-non-human-identity-and-secret-reachability 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.

skills/hunting-non-human-identity-and-secret-reachability/SKILL.md · 127 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 127 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Hunting non-human identity and secret reachability: existence is not the bug, reach is

A secret scanner tells you a credential is present. That is a lead, not a finding. The questions that decide severity are different: is this credential still valid, how much does it grant, and can an attacker actually reach it? A dead key in old history is noise. A live, broadly scoped token that an untrusted path leads to is an incident. Machine identities now vastly outnumber human ones, so the volume is overwhelming; the method that matters is separating reachable and powerful from merely present.

When to use

  • You are reviewing secret exposure or the machine identities in a system.
  • A scanner reports many secrets and you need to know which are exploitable.
  • You want the blast radius of a leaked credential, not just its location.

Scope check

Inventory and validate credentials in systems you own or are authorized to test, and test validity only against your own accounts. If you can't name the authorization, stop.

The loop

  1. Inventory the machine identities and secrets. Enumerate credentials across source, configuration, infrastructure definitions, build output, and runtime surfaces: keys, service-account credentials, and long-lived tokens. Record where each lives and which identity it belongs to. This is the candidate set, not the finding set.

  2. Determine reachability. For each credential, ask who can reach where it sits. A secret in a public location, in client-delivered code, in a log, or on a surface an untrusted request touches is reachable. One held only in a restricted store that no untrusted path leads to is not. Reachability is the first filter that turns a lead into a candidate worth validating.

  3. Establish whether it is live. A credential matters only if it still works. Confirm validity against your own account with a benign call, or from provenance (rotation records, expiry) when a live check is out of scope. A revoked or expired secret is a documented kill, however exposed it was.

Read the full file on GitHub · 127 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 · 127 lines · 151 tokens per session scan A dfe36fd33291

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hunting-non-human-identity-and-secret-reachability is a skill published in the GitHub repository UnboundCompute/security-agent-skills (5 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 151 tokens to every session and 1,566 once invoked, about $0.0006 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 2026-09-05.

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