api-credential-rotation SKILL.md skillA
api-credential-rotation from amey-thakur/ai-skills is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add amey-thakur/ai-skills/api-credential-rotation@git:20260728.419e522Pins git:20260728.419e522 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- amey-thakur/ai-skills
- Path
skills/api-integration/api-credential-rotation/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 1
- Latest version
- git:20260728.419e522, committed Jul 28, 2026
- Size
- 1,777 bytes
- Repository stars
- 14
- License
- MIT
Store, scope, and rotate integration credentials so a leak is survivable and rotation does not cause an outage. Use when managing keys for external services.
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 credential rotation Integration credentials are long-lived, broadly scoped, and shared between systems, which makes them the most commonly leaked secret and the most disruptive to rotate if rotation was never designed. ## Method 1. **Scope every credential to the minimum.** Read-only where possible and per-integration rather than one key used everywhere (see authz-design). 2. **Store in a secret manager, never in code or config files.** Both end up in version control and in logs (see secrets-management). 3. **Support two valid credentials at once.** Overlapping validity is what makes rotation possible without downtime, and it must be designed rather than improvised. 4. **Rotate on a schedule and on suspicion.** Routine rotation proves the process works before an incident requires it under pressure. 5. **Separate credentials per environment.** A test key with production access is a production incident waiting for a mistake. 6. **Alert on credential expiry ahead of time.** Expired integration credentials are a common and entirely preventable outage (see tls-and-certificates). 7. **Know the revocation path before you need it.** How fast you can …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add amey-thakur/ai-skills/api-credential-rotation@sha256:e2a229a60759f4baThe line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260728.419e522, 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 1 version of this file, committed on Jul 28, 2026.
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 (1777 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
amey-thakur/ai-skills · 14 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-09-06 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_kpjxlxsxvkcfyeox GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=amey-thakur/ai-skills/api-credential-rotation GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/e2a229a60759f4ba420502a5e8af56953497ee226a916573bac83cb9a4cf3181
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