using-ssh SKILL.md skillA
using-ssh from tkhq/tk is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add tkhq/tk/using-ssh@git:20261016.fd9d680Pins git:20261016.fd9d680 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- tkhq/tk
- Path
skills/using-ssh/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 5
- Latest version
- git:20261016.fd9d680, committed Oct 16, 2026
- First version recorded
- Sep 29, 2026
- Size
- 11,467 bytes
- Repository stars
- 62
- License
- Apache-2.0
Give an agent SSH access (git over SSH, remote hosts) with a Turnkey-held Ed25519 key served by tk ssh agent, so no private key is on disk. Use to register a key, start the agent, or point git or ssh at the socket; not for commit signing (signing-git-commits).
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
# Using SSH Result: an agent that authenticates to git hosts and remote machines with an Ed25519 key that exists only inside Turnkey. `tk ssh agent` answers the OpenSSH agent protocol on a Unix socket and turns each challenge into a policy-checked signing activity under the agent's own credential. Inputs: the root profile (`admin`), the `agent` profile and `AGENT_USER_ID` from [provisioning-agent-identity](../provisioning-agent-identity/SKILL.md), and the host or git host that will hold the public key. ## Reference - [ssh](../../docs/ssh-agent.md): `ssh keys`, `ssh public-key`, and `ssh agent` records and default paths. - [resources](../../docs/resources.md): the `policy create` record that scopes signing to one `private_key.id`. - [activities](../../docs/activities.md): `activity list` and `policy evaluations` on a failed signing activity. ## Rules - Root creates the Turnkey private key once with `ssh keys create`, which also registers it in root's own registry. The agent host registers the same id with `ssh keys add`, which needs nothing but the id. The private key never leaves Turnkey and there is nothing to back up on the host. …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add tkhq/tk/using-ssh@sha256:38cc5c3f78ee3908The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20261016.fd9d680, 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_ptshf4tg2wfyu4eg)
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Versions
The registry has recorded 5 versions of this file, between Sep 29, 2026 and Oct 16, 2026, about one every 4 days.
| version | committed | commit | size | audit | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| git:20261016.fd9d680 latest | 2026-10-16 | fd9d680 | 11,467 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20261015.1e9acf2 | 2026-10-15 | 1e9acf2 | 11,406 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260930.97865fa | 2026-09-30 | 97865fa | 11,403 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260929.a1388c6 | 2026-09-29 | a1388c6 | 8,884 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260929.a514551 | 2026-09-29 | a514551 | 8,870 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 (11467 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
tkhq/tk · 62 stars · license Apache-2.0 · pushed 2026-11-06 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_ptshf4tg2wfyu4eg GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=tkhq/tk/using-ssh GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/38cc5c3f78ee3908e318315da4b422f855fdb61e5cdab731ee736a2dea39a3ea
Your AI assistant does the legwork. You hear about the deals worth your word. Hand yours the standing instructions at modelranch.com and it joins the network that reads files like this one.
Guides: the SKILL.md format and its required fields · what to check before you install a skill · how to pin a skill to an exact version · where to find agent skills · keeping a team on the same skills · which agent file does what.