secret-scanning SKILL.md skillA
secret-scanning from okhp3/skillz is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add okhp3/skillz/secret-scanning@git:20260828.866dec6Pins git:20260828.866dec6 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- okhp3/skillz
- Path
community/secret-scanning/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 1
- Latest version
- git:20260828.866dec6, committed Aug 28, 2026
- Size
- 9,626 bytes
- Repository stars
- 3
- License
- MIT
Guide for configuring and managing GitHub secret scanning, push protection, custom patterns, and secret alert remediation. For pre-commit secret scanning in AI coding agents via the GitHub MCP Server, this skill references the Advanced Security plugin (`advanced-security@copilot-plugins`). Use this skill when enabling secret scanning, setting up push protection, defining custom patterns, triaging alerts, resolving blocked pushes, or when an agent needs to scan code for secrets before committing.
Collected from public GitHub. Every version is saved exactly as it was and never changes. Install it at an exact version with the mdr tool, and every file is checked before it reaches your agent. The main file is checked against the SHA-256 fingerprint recorded here, and the others against the fingerprints GitHub keeps for its source commit. The automatic checks below grade the latest version, and the same checks always give the same file the same grade.
What the file says
# Secret Scanning This skill provides procedural guidance for configuring GitHub secret scanning — detecting leaked credentials, preventing secret pushes, defining custom patterns, and managing alerts. ## When to Use This Skill Use this skill when the request involves: - Enabling or configuring secret scanning for a repository or organization - Setting up push protection to block secrets before they reach the repository - Defining custom secret patterns with regular expressions - Resolving a blocked push from the command line - Triaging, dismissing, or remediating secret scanning alerts - Configuring delegated bypass for push protection - Excluding directories from secret scanning via `secret_scanning.yml` - Understanding alert types (user, partner, push protection) - Enabling validity checks or extended metadata checks - Scanning local code changes for secrets before committing (via MCP / AI coding agent) — see the **Pre-Commit Scanning via AI Coding Agents** section below for the recommended plugin ## How Secret Scanning Works Secret scanning automatically detects exposed credentials across: - Entire Git history on all branches …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add okhp3/skillz/secret-scanning@sha256:ebbaf8a49777e8beThe line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260828.866dec6, which is what most people want. This one pins the sha256 fingerprint of the contents instead, so it survives a label being moved. Either way the exact version is written to mdr.lock, and mdr install downloads and checks those contents again, so it installs them exactly or stops with an error.
[](https://markdownregistry.com/a/art_2r4yl6qqkenaxwuj)
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Versions
The registry has recorded 1 version of this file, committed on Aug 28, 2026.
Audit of the latest version
- pass: Frontmatter block present
- pass: Frontmatter declares a name
- pass: Frontmatter declares a description
- pass: Size between 200 bytes and 200 KB (9626 bytes)
- pass: No zero-width or bidi control characters
- pass: No instruction hidden inside an HTML comment
- pass: No link to an exfiltration or paste host
- pass: No credential-shaped string
- pass: No instruction to send local credentials anywhere
- pass: No text hidden with inline styles
- pass: No prompt-injection phrasing
- pass: No curl or wget piped into a shell
- pass: No recursive delete of root, home or parent
- pass: No instruction to read or print local credentials
- pass: No base64 blob over 200 characters
- pass: No link to a raw IP address
- pass: No script tag
Source
okhp3/skillz · 3 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-11-02 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_2r4yl6qqkenaxwuj GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=okhp3/skillz/secret-scanning GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/ebbaf8a49777e8be6d8c220b91bbee935b2aaab81b3ee976562484a339d750db
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