private-secret-scanning SKILL.md skillA
private-secret-scanning from jamditis/claude-skills-journalism is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add jamditis/claude-skills-journalism/private-secret-scanning@git:20261024.21f0bb2Pins git:20261024.21f0bb2 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- jamditis/claude-skills-journalism
- Path
security-toolkit/skills/private-secret-scanning/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 2
- Latest version
- git:20261024.21f0bb2, committed Oct 24, 2026
- First version recorded
- Sep 28, 2026
- Size
- 7,179 bytes
- Repository stars
- 450
- License
- MIT
Local Gitleaks scans for staged changes, push ranges, and full history in private repos, with redacted reports. Use to block committed secrets without GitHub Secret Protection.
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
# Private secret scanning GitHub push protection and secret scanning are free on public repositories. Private repositories need a paid GitHub Secret Protection license. This skill gives private and shared repositories a deterministic local replacement: a pinned [Gitleaks](https://github.com/gitleaks/gitleaks) binary, three scan scopes, and git hooks that stop a leak before it leaves the machine. Everything runs through one script that ships with this skill: `scripts/secret-scan.sh`. It needs only Bash (3.2 or later, so the macOS default works), git, curl, and python3. ## Quick start ```bash # Absolute, so the path still works after cd your-repo SCAN="$(cd path/to/private-secret-scanning/scripts && pwd)/secret-scan.sh" "$SCAN" install # pinned Gitleaks 8.30.1, SHA-256 checked before install "$SCAN" self-test # proves leaks fail and clean repos pass on this machine cd your-repo "$SCAN" history --report /tmp/secret-report.json # one-time audit of every commit "$SCAN" install-hooks # pre-commit and pre-push protection from now on ``` ## Scan scopes | Command | Scans | Use it | |---|---|---| | `staged` | the staged diff only | pre-commit hook; fastest | …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add jamditis/claude-skills-journalism/private-secret-scanning@sha256:1a485c792e702dcdThe line at the top of this page pins the label git:20261024.21f0bb2, 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_esh6myhuywqykio6)
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Versions
The registry has recorded 2 versions of this file, between Sep 28, 2026 and Oct 24, 2026, about one every 26 days.
| version | committed | commit | size | audit | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| git:20261024.21f0bb2 latest | 2026-10-24 | 21f0bb2 | 7,179 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260928.10702e2 | 2026-09-28 | 10702e2 | 7,109 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 (7179 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
jamditis/claude-skills-journalism · 450 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-11-04 · branch master
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_esh6myhuywqykio6 GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=jamditis/claude-skills-journalism/private-secret-scanning GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/1a485c792e702dcd1002be9f6f51be0b10eb08dd9e26ef262fff312f579717dd
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.
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