managing-secrets SKILL.md skillA
managing-secrets from tkhq/tk is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add tkhq/tk/managing-secrets@git:20261016.fd9d680Pins git:20261016.fd9d680 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- tkhq/tk
- Path
skills/managing-secrets/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 3
- Latest version
- git:20261016.fd9d680, committed Oct 16, 2026
- First version recorded
- Sep 21, 2026
- Size
- 10,687 bytes
- Repository stars
- 62
- License
- Apache-2.0
Grant agents Turnkey Secrets exports and import, export, rotate, and inject secrets with tk, including the export policies per approval column, scope isolation between agents, secret env as a process's startup environment, and finishing an approval-gated export. Use to let an agent read a value, store one, give a process its environment, complete a pending export, or replace a value; not for wallet or private-key export.
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
# Managing secrets Result: named, property-tagged secrets that the right agent reads at startup with one command, with approval-gated values handled by rerunning that same command after a human approves, and an acceptance test proving the export policies from the agent's own credential. ## Reference - [secrets](../../docs/secrets.md): `secret` command records, `secret env` quoting, and pending-export state. - [resources](../../docs/resources.md): `policy create` flags and records. - [activities](../../docs/activities.md): `activity approve` on a pending export and `policy evaluations` for a denial. ## Rules - Values never enter the transcript. Import from `--from-file` or a pipe; export to `--out` or into the consuming process. Verify by exit code and metadata. - Every secret carries exactly one `consensus` property, `unilateral` or `approval`, and is named `<scope>/<VAR>` so `secret env` can build an environment. Properties are immutable and policy-visible; never put a secret value in one. - Export and `env` are rerun, not resumed: the same credential from the same home directory picks up its own pending export. …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add tkhq/tk/managing-secrets@sha256:c3c833ea36744114The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20261016.fd9d680, 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 3 versions of this file, between Sep 21, 2026 and Oct 16, 2026, about one every 12 days.
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| git:20261016.fd9d680 latest | 2026-10-16 | fd9d680 | 10,687 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260929.a1388c6 | 2026-09-29 | a1388c6 | 7,169 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260921.b0abffd | 2026-09-21 | b0abffd | 7,129 B | A | view |
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 (10687 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
tkhq/tk · 62 stars · license Apache-2.0 · pushed 2026-11-06 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_afmn726a24aviuqi GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=tkhq/tk/managing-secrets GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/c3c833ea3674411472030e6623992f3b6a180f7fcec9c519a35d552e0cfaab20
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