inspecting-agents SKILL.md skillA

inspecting-agents from tkhq/tk is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.

Install it, pinned
mdr add tkhq/tk/inspecting-agents@git:20260929.a1388c6

Pins git:20260929.a1388c6 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.

Audit grade
A, 17 of 17 checks passed
Kind
SKILL.md skill
Repository
tkhq/tk
Path
skills/inspecting-agents/SKILL.md
Versions recorded
4
Latest version
git:20260929.a1388c6, committed Sep 29, 2026
First version recorded
Sep 22, 2026
Size
10,050 bytes
Repository stars
62
License
Apache-2.0

Answer operational questions about an organization's Turnkey agents with tk list filters, explicit pagination, and jq: what is pending and for how long, who voted, which users carry a tag, which keys each agent holds and when they expire, which secrets carry which properties, which policies mention a tag or user, who minted a key. Use for audits and "what is the state of X" questions; not for changing anything.

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

# Inspecting agents

Result: a read-only report that answers each question with the command that
produced it and the field the answer came from. Nothing is created, voted
on, or deleted.

Each question below is one `tk` list narrowed by its filter flags plus a
`jq` projection; `jq` selects only where no flag exists (the tag-id search
over policies, the public-key join that attributes a mint). Each answer
states its provenance: the command, the pages read, and the field.

## Reference

- [resources](../../docs/resources.md): `user list` tag filtering, `user tag` records, `api-key list` owner selection and expiry modes, and `policy` records.
- [activities](../../docs/activities.md): `activity list` filtering and paging, and `activity get`.
- [secrets](../../docs/secrets.md): `secret list` filtering.

## Rules

- Read only. Approving, rejecting, or waiting on what you find belongs to
  [monitoring-activities](../monitoring-activities/SKILL.md).
- Page to the end before answering "none". `activity list` pages with
  `--limit` and `--cursor`; a page is the last one when `data.nextCursor` is
  `null`. A filtered `secret list` pages the same way; see
…

Read the whole file at its exact version.

How to install

The exact contents, by fingerprint
mdr add tkhq/tk/inspecting-agents@sha256:7df1792cc00c2b56

The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260929.a1388c6, 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 Sep 22, 2026 and Sep 29, 2026, about one every 3 days.

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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 (10050 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

tkhq/tk · 62 stars · license Apache-2.0 · pushed 2026-11-06 · branch main

API

GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_ljqwaxk74p7iobk5
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=tkhq/tk/inspecting-agents
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/7df1792cc00c2b56a3aa7065dfe3c773fe4fc018be21456ba520d4f9ba0db5fc

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