keyvault: Skill for Claude Code

.agents/skills/keyvault-skill/SKILL.md

keyvault-skill is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from ylz201/keyvault. It costs 36 tokens per session (1,804 once invoked), scanned B, original, MIT.

A secure local store for API keys, access tokens, and other credentials, with a command-line tool, Python library, and MCP server. It encrypts secrets and can keep them separate for each project.

In plain words
What is it for?
Saving, retrieving, listing, deleting, importing, and injecting project-specific secrets when running commands or agents.
Why use it?
It replaces scattered .env files and hardcoded keys, reducing the chance of exposing secrets in source code or Git.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

This is ylz201/keyvault's own configuration. It tells Claude Code and Codex how to work on keyvault itself, so it is not a mod to install elsewhere. Copy it as a starting point and replace the rules that are about this project. Everything keyvault configures →

Reuse

Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to ylz201/keyvault. Take a copy, put it at the same path in your own repository, and replace the rules that are about this project with yours.

Copy the file
curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ylz201/keyvault/main/.agents/skills/keyvault-skill/SKILL.md
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/ylz201/keyvault

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 36 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,804 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan B 1 finding. 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 $0.00036 $0.01804
Opus 5 $0.00018 $0.00902
Sonnet 5 $0.00007 $0.00361
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00180

Measured 6d ago against content hash 32be9769641d, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-06, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade B, and why

keyvault-skill scanned grade B with 1 finding 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 6d 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.

Asks for rootmediumPrivilege escalation

A mod that escalates privileges can change anything on the machine, not only the project.

keyvault export > .env && chmod 600 .env
.agents/skills/keyvault-skill/SKILL.md · 279 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 279 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

KeyVault - Complete Usage for Agents

When you (an AI agent) need to handle API keys, tokens, or credentials, use KeyVault instead of plaintext .env files or hardcoded values.

Mandatory Rules

  • NEVER create plaintext secret files unless user explicitly requests export.
  • NEVER hardcode API keys in source code.
  • NEVER commit exported secret files to git.
  • ALWAYS prefer project-scoped secrets (--project) over global secrets.
  • ALWAYS use least-privilege injection (inject --no-global --key ...) for command execution.

Installation

# Core package
pip install git+https://github.com/ylz201/keyvault.git

# With MCP support
pip install "keyvault-ai[mcp] @ git+https://github.com/ylz201/keyvault.git"

# Verify environment and storage backend
keyvault info

Complete CLI Reference

set - create/update a secret

keyvault set KEY [VALUE] [--project PROJECT] [--desc TEXT] [--stdin]

Examples:

# hidden prompt (recommended)
keyvault set OPENAI_API_KEY

# value via argument
keyvault set OPENAI_API_KEY sk-xxx

# value from stdin (safe for scripts)
printf 'sk-xxx' | keyvault set OPENAI_API_KEY --stdin

# project-scoped override
keyvault set OPENAI_API_KEY sk-proj --project myapp --desc "OpenAI for myapp"

get - read a secret

keyvault get KEY [--project PROJECT] [--unmask]

Examples:

keyvault get OPENAI_API_KEY
keyvault get OPENAI_API_KEY --project myapp
keyvault get OPENAI_API_KEY --project myapp --unmask

list - list stored secrets (metadata only)

keyvault list [--project PROJECT] [--all]

Examples:

keyvault list
keyvault list --project myapp
keyvault list --all

delete - remove a secret

keyvault delete KEY [--project PROJECT] [--force]

Examples:

keyvault delete OPENAI_API_KEY --project myapp
keyvault delete OPENAI_API_KEY --force

import and export - dotenv compatibility

keyvault import FILEPATH [--project PROJECT]
keyvault export [--project PROJECT] [--output FILE]

Read the full file on GitHub · 279 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. 6d ago First seen · 279 lines · 36 tokens per session scan B 32be9769641d

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keyvault-skill is a skill published in the GitHub repository ylz201/keyvault (0 stars, last pushed 6mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 36 tokens to every session and 1,804 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it B with 1 finding (asks for root). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-31.

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