daraja-credentials-security SKILL.md skillA
daraja-credentials-security from mr-macharia/mpesa-daraja-skills-and-mcp is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add mr-macharia/mpesa-daraja-skills-and-mcp/daraja-credentials-security@git:20261021.84f51bcPins git:20261021.84f51bc in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- mr-macharia/mpesa-daraja-skills-and-mcp
- Path
skills/daraja-credentials-security/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 3
- Latest version
- git:20261021.84f51bc, committed Oct 21, 2026
- First version recorded
- Oct 19, 2026
- Size
- 4,145 bytes
- Repository stars
- 3
- License
- MIT
Manages Safaricom Daraja secrets safely (Consumer Key and Secret, M-Pesa Express passkey, initiator password, SecurityCredential) and generates the SecurityCredential by RSA-encrypting the initiator password with Safaricom's sandbox or production certificate. Covers .env files versus secret managers, fail-fast config, log masking, rotation and leak response. Use when wiring M-Pesa configuration, generating a SecurityCredential, or handling 2001, 18 or 8006 initiator errors.
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
# Daraja credentials and security ## Secret inventory | Secret | Grants | Sensitivity | |---|---|---| | Consumer Key and Secret | Tokens: calling every API on the app | High | | Passkey | Signing STK requests for the shortcode | High | | Initiator name and password | B2C, B2B, tax, reversal, status, balance | **Critical** (moves money out) | | SecurityCredential | Encrypted initiator password. Replayable | **Critical** | | Access token | One hour of API access | Medium. Keep it in memory or cache only | ## Storage 1. **Never hardcode secrets.** Git history keeps them even after deletion. 2. **Development**: a `.env` file plus `python-dotenv`/`dotenv`. The file is in `.gitignore`, has `chmod 600`, and a `.env.example` without values is committed. 3. **Production**: a secret manager (AWS Secrets Manager/SSM, GCP Secret Manager, Azure Key Vault, Vault, K8s/Docker secrets), injected at runtime with least-privilege access and audit logs. 4. Keep separate credentials per environment, and **no default fallback values in code**. Fail fast at startup: ```python REQUIRED = ["DARAJA_CONSUMER_KEY", "DARAJA_CONSUMER_SECRET", "DARAJA_SHORTCODE", "DARAJA_PASSKEY"] …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add mr-macharia/mpesa-daraja-skills-and-mcp/daraja-credentials-security@sha256:fa80029fed9a908bThe line at the top of this page pins the label git:20261021.84f51bc, 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 Oct 19, 2026 and Oct 21, 2026, more than one a day.
| version | committed | commit | size | audit | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| git:20261021.84f51bc latest | 2026-10-21 | 84f51bc | 4,145 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20261019.9e3c915 | 2026-10-19 | 9e3c915 | 4,135 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20261019.15b8109 | 2026-10-19 | 15b8109 | 3,729 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 (4145 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
mr-macharia/mpesa-daraja-skills-and-mcp · 3 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-11-03 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_gn3idvuqmdgsldur GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=mr-macharia/mpesa-daraja-skills-and-mcp/daraja-credentials-security GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/fa80029fed9a908b68c8ef784a7570522c5cec2e82b44257060afc136d4ddc7a
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