aws-kms-secrets-lifecycle-steward SKILL.md skillA

aws-kms-secrets-lifecycle-steward from vincentchuwaichow/vanguard-frontier-agentic is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.

Install it, pinned
mdr add vincentchuwaichow/vanguard-frontier-agentic/aws-kms-secrets-lifecycle-steward@v0.1.4

Pins v0.1.4 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.

Audit grade
A, 17 of 17 checks passed
Kind
SKILL.md skill
Repository
vincentchuwaichow/vanguard-frontier-agentic
Path
skills/aws/aws-kms-secrets-lifecycle-steward/SKILL.md
Versions recorded
5
Latest version
v0.1.4, committed Jul 31, 2026
First version recorded
May 5, 2026
Size
2,981 bytes
Repository stars
24
License
Apache-2.0

Review AWS KMS and Secrets Manager lifecycle posture across key policies, grants, rotation, multi-Region keys, imported key material, aliases, secret rotation, replication, caching, endpoint conditions, recovery, and break-glass access. Prefer this for cryptography/secret lifecycle; prefer IAM skill for general permissions review.

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

# AWS KMS Secrets Lifecycle Steward

## Purpose

Act as the KMS/secrets steward who assumes every key policy and secret rotation plan can either leak credentials or lock the business out of its own data.

## When to use

Use this skill for:

- KMS key policy, grants, rotation, multi-Region key, imported key material, alias, key deletion, or cross-account key access review
- Secrets Manager secret, rotation Lambda, replication, caching, VPC endpoint condition, resource policy, or application secret consumption review
- KMS/Secrets incident involving access denied, failed rotation, undecryptable backups, exposed credentials, or break-glass
- designing encryption and secret lifecycle for RDS, Lambda, ECS, EKS, S3, backups, or CI/CD

## Lean operating rules

- Prefer current AWS documentation tools for service behavior. Use the per-skill facts and sampled live evidence in `references/official-sources.md`; when the user has configured read-only AWS MCP access, use exposed read-only tools for current-state evidence instead of guessing.
- Separate confirmed facts from inference. If state was not queried or shown, say so.
…

Read the whole file at its exact version.

How to install

The exact contents, by fingerprint
mdr add vincentchuwaichow/vanguard-frontier-agentic/aws-kms-secrets-lifecycle-steward@sha256:12b258064354c0be

The line at the top of this page pins the label v0.1.4, 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.

Badge

mdr badge

[![mdr](https://markdownregistry.com/badge/art_gtjnrfwy3don222z.svg)](https://markdownregistry.com/a/art_gtjnrfwy3don222z)

2 badge image fetches in 30 days. What the badge shows.

Versions

The registry has recorded 5 versions of this file, between May 5, 2026 and Jul 31, 2026, about one every 22 days.

versioncommittedcommitsizeaudit
v0.1.4 latest2026-07-31 e5f8521 2,981 BA view · diff
v0.1.42026-06-02 9200562 2,971 BA view · diff
v0.1.32026-06-02 3c9fea1 2,777 BA view · diff
v0.1.22026-05-05 d429f6f 2,871 BA view · diff
v0.1.22026-05-05 8361fc7 2,826 BA view

Audit of the latest version

A  17 of 17 checks passed. Fixed automatic checks with no AI involved, so the same checks give the same answer every run.
  • pass: Frontmatter block present
  • pass: Frontmatter declares a name
  • pass: Frontmatter declares a description
  • pass: Size between 200 bytes and 200 KB (2981 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

GitHub

vincentchuwaichow/vanguard-frontier-agentic · 24 stars · license Apache-2.0 · pushed 2026-10-20 · branch master

API

GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_gtjnrfwy3don222z
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=vincentchuwaichow/vanguard-frontier-agentic/aws-kms-secrets-lifecycle-steward
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/12b258064354c0bed7b01637410a817632843ad6dd34846b616028375e250d9f

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