auditing-machine-identity-issuance SKILL.md skillA
auditing-machine-identity-issuance from unboundcompute/security-agent-skills is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add unboundcompute/security-agent-skills/auditing-machine-identity-issuance@git:20260903.19a7174Pins git:20260903.19a7174 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- unboundcompute/security-agent-skills
- Path
skills/auditing-machine-identity-issuance/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 1
- Latest version
- git:20260903.19a7174, committed Sep 3, 2026
- Size
- 11,949 bytes
- Repository stars
- 26
- License
- MIT
Audit how a platform issues machine and workload identities (certificate authorities, workload-identity federation, service-mesh identity, attestation-based credentialing) for trust misplaced in the thing asking for one: a credential issued on a weak or forgeable proof (a self-asserted name, an unvalidated label, a reachable metadata endpoint) so forging the proof yields a real identity, an issuing authority not constrained to the names it may mint, a federation trust configured so broadly…
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
# Auditing machine identity issuance: the identity is only as trustworthy as the proof that earned it Every machine identity, a service mesh certificate, a federated cloud credential, a signed workload token, is a statement the platform makes on a workload's behalf: this is who this thing is. Downstream services trust that statement and skip re-checking, which is the point of an identity system, so the entire chain of trust rests on one decision made at issuance: what proof did the platform require before it minted the identity. If that proof is weak or forgeable, the identity is legitimate and the holder is not. A certificate issued on a self-asserted name, an unvalidated label, or a reachable metadata endpoint lets an attacker who forges the proof obtain a real, trusted identity. An issuing authority whose scope is not constrained can mint identities for names it should never speak for, so a compromise of one issuer forges any workload. A workload-identity federation trust configured too broadly, a wildcard subject, an unpinned issuer, a missing audience, lets an outside principal …
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How to install
mdr add unboundcompute/security-agent-skills/auditing-machine-identity-issuance@sha256:ef8ff32e52360b87The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260903.19a7174, 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.
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Versions
The registry has recorded 1 version of this file, committed on Sep 3, 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 (11949 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
unboundcompute/security-agent-skills · 26 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-09-08 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_6roeka2zfopkfzci GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=unboundcompute/security-agent-skills/auditing-machine-identity-issuance GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/ef8ff32e52360b87a0a6e1ad3912fca6b076b6b38230ee856cdcd9020a8d1c82
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