secret-hygiene SKILL.md skillA
secret-hygiene from sentimony/skills is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add sentimony/skills/secret-hygiene@v0.0.6Pins v0.0.6 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- sentimony/skills
- Path
skills/secret-hygiene/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 7
- Latest version
- v0.0.6, committed Nov 7, 2026
- First version recorded
- Sep 28, 2026
- Size
- 10,347 bytes
- Repository stars
- 7
- License
- MIT
You MUST use this when using credentials from env files, environment variables, or config to call real services (APIs, CLIs, databases), when checking whether required keys exist, when asked to show credential or environment values, or when writing commit, PR, issue, or log text after credentials were used in the session - it keeps secret values out of agent output while the work still gets done.
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 Hygiene Credential values never appear in anything you output: replies, tool calls, command arguments, tool output you cause to be printed, files you write, logs, commits, PR texts, or issues. Refer to a credential only by its placeholder name, such as `<API_TOKEN>` or the key name in the env file, never by its value or any part of it. The work still gets done: you call the service the user asked about, and the credential travels inside a process, so its value never passes through the conversation. ## Security Model **Threat model.** This skill guards against accidental leaks by a cooperative agent: a debug print, a verbose HTTP client, a traceback with headers, an API that echoes the token back, or a PR text that quotes a command. It does not defend against a malicious agent, arbitrary code that already has access to the secret, or a deliberate bypass of a guard. No output channel is guaranteed clean; the skill reduces the chance of a leak on the paths it names. **Advisory only.** This package ships no hooks, deny rules, or sandbox configuration. When the project has no guard, the procedure below is the only protection, so follow it even …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add sentimony/skills/secret-hygiene@sha256:3f82779fa27a9b13The line at the top of this page pins the label v0.0.6, 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_asfwodx3o5g5yqhl)
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Versions
The registry has recorded 7 versions of this file, between Sep 28, 2026 and Nov 7, 2026, about one every 7 days.
| version | committed | commit | size | audit | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| v0.0.6 latest | 2026-11-07 | e2d7cec | 10,347 B | A | view · diff |
| v0.0.5 | 2026-11-04 | 6022530 | 10,258 B | A | view · diff |
| v0.0.4 | 2026-11-04 | efb8f2a | 10,074 B | A | view · diff |
| v1.1.1 | 2026-11-01 | 9838372 | 10,074 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20261008.8af480a | 2026-10-08 | 8af480a | 10,032 B | A | view · diff |
| v1.0.1 | 2026-10-01 | 832a9a8 | 10,117 B | A | view · diff |
| v1.0.0 | 2026-09-28 | 611f0c8 | 10,099 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 (10347 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
sentimony/skills · 7 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-11-07 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_asfwodx3o5g5yqhl GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=sentimony/skills/secret-hygiene GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/3f82779fa27a9b13d0fe61a8f9d032a124992f73e276e01a7218c85dc6856298
Your AI assistant does the legwork. You hear about the deals worth your word. Hand yours the standing instructions at modelranch.com and it joins the network that reads files like this one.
Guides: the SKILL.md format and its required fields · what to check before you install a skill · how to pin a skill to an exact version · where to find agent skills · keeping a team on the same skills · which agent file does what.
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