sast-hardcodedsecrets

sast-hardcodedsecrets is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from utkusen/sast-skills. It costs 124 tokens per session (6,724 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A security check for finding sensitive credentials embedded in public code, such as browser JavaScript, mobile apps, or HTML. It looks for API keys, passwords, tokens, private keys, and database connection strings, then verifies likely findings.

In plain words
What is it for?
Scanning publicly reachable frontend or mobile code, confirming whether suspected credentials are real, and combining the findings into a security report.
Why use it?
Anything included in client-side code can be extracted by people who download the application. Finding exposed credentials helps prevent unauthorized access to connected services.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Scanning publicly reachable frontend or mobile code, confirming whether suspected credentials are real, and combining the findings into a security report.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/utkusen/sast-skills/sast-hardcodedsecrets
About the project

SAST Skills is a collection of agent workflows that inspect web and mobile application code for security vulnerabilities, where SAST means static application security testing. Developers and security reviewers use it to map a codebase, verify possible flaws, and produce a severity-ranked remediation report. The catalogue entries are the project's vulnerability-detection and reporting skills.

utkusen/sast-skills · 1,303 stars · on GitHub

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 utkusen/sast-skills --skill sast-hardcodedsecrets
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/utkusen/sast-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 124 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 6,724 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: 5 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 4
    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 24
    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 102
    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 104
    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 162
    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 $0.00124 $0.06724
Opus 5 $0.00062 $0.03362
Sonnet 5 $0.00025 $0.01345
Haiku 4.5 $0.00012 $0.00672

Measured 9d ago against content hash 17c09d94a2d3, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

sast-hardcodedsecrets 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 9d 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.

sast-files/.agents/skills/sast-hardcodedsecrets/SKILL.md · 409 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 409 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Hardcoded Secrets in Public Code Detection

You are performing a focused security assessment to find hardcoded sensitive data that is exposed in publicly accessible code. This skill uses a three-phase approach with subagents: recon (find all potential secret candidates), batched verify (confirm each is a real secret in publicly reachable code, in parallel batches of 3), and merge (consolidate batch reports into one file).

Prerequisites: sast/architecture.md must exist. Run the analysis skill first if it doesn't.


What Are Hardcoded Secrets in Public Code

Hardcoded secrets are sensitive credentials — API keys, access tokens, private keys, passwords, signing secrets, database connection strings — embedded directly in source code as string literals.

This skill focuses specifically on secrets that end up in publicly accessible code, meaning an attacker can extract them without any server-side access. A secret hardcoded in backend server code is bad practice but not directly exploitable by an external attacker inspecting the deployed application. A secret hardcoded in frontend JavaScript or a mobile app binary is directly extractable.

The core question: Can an external attacker obtain this secret from the deployed application without server access?

What to Report (Publicly Accessible Code)

These code paths are accessible to attackers after deployment:

  • Frontend JavaScript/TypeScript — any .js, .ts, .jsx, .tsx file that runs in the browser. This includes:
    • React, Angular, Vue, Svelte components and pages
    • Next.js client components (files with "use client" or files under app/ without "use server")
    • Nuxt.js pages and client plugins
    • Vanilla JS in public/, static/, or assets/ directories
    • Webpack/Vite/Rollup entry points and their imported modules
    • Any file imported by a client-side entry point (even if it lives in a utils/ or lib/ folder)
  • Mobile application code — extractable via reverse engineering (decompiling APK, inspecting IPA):
    • Android: Java/Kotlin source files
    • iOS: Swift/Objective-C source files
    • React Native: JavaScript bundles
    • Flutter: Dart source files
    • Xamarin: C# source files
  • HTML files and templates served to clients — inline <script> blocks, data- attributes, meta tags
  • Client-side configuration files — files in public/, static/, assets/, www/ directories
  • Electron/desktop app source — extractable from ASAR archives
  • WebAssembly source/companion JS — secrets in JS glue code or extractable from WASM

Read the full file on GitHub · 409 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. 9d ago First seen · 409 lines · 124 tokens per session scan A 17c09d94a2d3

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sast-hardcodedsecrets is a skill published in the GitHub repository utkusen/sast-skills (1,303 stars, last pushed 5mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 124 tokens to every session and 6,724 once invoked, about $0.0006 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 2026-08-30.

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