auditing-service-account-key-lifecycle SKILL.md skillA
auditing-service-account-key-lifecycle from unboundcompute/security-agent-skills is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add unboundcompute/security-agent-skills/auditing-service-account-key-lifecycle@git:20260903.19a7174Pins git:20260903.19a7174 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- unboundcompute/security-agent-skills
- Path
skills/auditing-service-account-key-lifecycle/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 1
- Latest version
- git:20260903.19a7174, committed Sep 3, 2026
- Size
- 11,187 bytes
- Repository stars
- 26
- License
- MIT
Audit cloud and platform service-account keys for lifecycle weaknesses that turn a non-human credential into standing access: a user-managed key file that never expires and is copied into repos, CI config, or developer laptops, a service account granted far more privilege than its workload needs so the key is a broad credential, a key that is never rotated and has no owner tracking who holds copies, a key that can be created or downloaded by someone who should only use the account, and a…
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
# Auditing service-account key lifecycle: a downloaded key is a password for a robot with real power A service account is a non-human identity a workload uses to call cloud and platform APIs, and its key is a long-lived credential with no user, no second factor, and often broad platform privilege behind it. That makes a downloaded service-account key one of the most dangerous credentials in a system: it is a bearer secret that grants a workload's full authority to anyone who copies the file, and workloads have real power. The lifecycle failures are specific. A user-managed key file that never expires gets copied into repositories, CI configuration, and developer laptops and lingers there for years. A service account granted more privilege than its workload needs makes the key a broad credential rather than a narrow one, so a leak grants the excess. A key that is never rotated, with no owner tracking who holds copies, cannot be reasoned about or safely retired. A service account whose key can be created or downloaded by someone who should only be allowed to use the account lets a lesser principal export standing credentials. And a service account that was disabled or deleted but …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add unboundcompute/security-agent-skills/auditing-service-account-key-lifecycle@sha256:e12e5a0a93154abdThe line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260903.19a7174, 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_o4acozb3eruhm2o4)
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Versions
The registry has recorded 1 version of this file, committed on Sep 3, 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 (11187 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
unboundcompute/security-agent-skills · 26 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-09-08 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_o4acozb3eruhm2o4 GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=unboundcompute/security-agent-skills/auditing-service-account-key-lifecycle GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/e12e5a0a93154abdb822b1ed25b3578f39cbe808e6390f5e9616ca78271216cc
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