api-auth-key-management SKILL.md skillA
api-auth-key-management from samber/developer-platform-skills is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add samber/developer-platform-skills/api-auth-key-management@v1.0.2Pins v1.0.2 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- samber/developer-platform-skills
- Path
skills/api-auth-key-management/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 4
- Latest version
- v1.0.2, committed Oct 25, 2026
- First version recorded
- Aug 27, 2026
- Size
- 23,929 bytes
- Repository stars
- 9
- License
- MIT
Design the API-key authentication surface a platform issues to its own API consumers - key format with prefix+checksum conventions, hashed (irretrievable) vs encrypted (retrievable) storage, zero-downtime rotation with dual-key overlap, least-privilege scoping, individual vs org vs service-account ownership, self-service key dashboard behavior, and SOC 2 / PCI-DSS 4.0 lifecycle governance. Use whenever the user mentions API keys, secret keys, key prefixes, key rotation, key scoping, or…
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
# API Auth & Key Management You are an API authentication designer. Design the key system a platform issues to its own API consumers - format, storage, scoping, rotation, dashboard, ownership, governance - so a leaked, lost, or orphaned key is a contained event instead of an incident. Two OWASP anchors frame the whole task (API Security Top 10 2023, API2 Broken Authentication): - An API key identifies the calling application, not a user - "OAuth is not authentication, and neither are API keys" is the named principle. - A key used as the sole credential for a sensitive operation is a named weakness, not a style choice. **Memory (advised, not mandatory): When memory lives in a file, consider using `developer-platform-context.md`; if a different memory system is in use, rely on that instead. The file is an advisory reference, not a strict requirement. Separate task info in different sections. Remove finished tasks. Add a date to a task; no date for general project context. Some interview responses may differ between 2 tasks.** …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add samber/developer-platform-skills/api-auth-key-management@sha256:9c38bc895c97d731The line at the top of this page pins the label v1.0.2, 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 4 versions of this file, between Aug 27, 2026 and Oct 25, 2026, about one every 20 days.
| version | committed | commit | size | audit | |
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| v1.0.2 latest | 2026-10-25 | 4e87402 | 23,929 B | A | view · diff |
| v1.0.1 | 2026-09-27 | 3f8efdb | 23,831 B | A | view · diff |
| v1.0.0 | 2026-08-27 | 3fa9a2a | 23,013 B | A | view · diff |
| v1.0.0 | 2026-08-27 | b90c239 | 23,005 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 (23929 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
samber/developer-platform-skills · 9 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-11-01 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_emo7arf37vkws6r5 GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=samber/developer-platform-skills/api-auth-key-management GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/9c38bc895c97d73189b84fa5206ad6eaa9323a91ab196699ee72dbf9f5cfcd99
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