auditing-ansible-become-and-vault-trust SKILL.md skillA
auditing-ansible-become-and-vault-trust 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-ansible-become-and-vault-trust@git:20260827.b5f41a4Pins git:20260827.b5f41a4 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-ansible-become-and-vault-trust/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 1
- Latest version
- git:20260827.b5f41a4, committed Aug 27, 2026
- Size
- 10,211 bytes
- Repository stars
- 26
- License
- MIT
Audit configuration-management privilege escalation and secret handling for trust that runs as root on every managed host: a task that escalates with become across a whole play when only one step needs it, a role or variable sourced from an untrusted place that runs under that escalation, a vault-encrypted secret whose decryption key is exposed to the runner or logged, and a templated value or module argument that takes attacker-influenceable input while privileged. Covers Ansible and similar…
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 Ansible become and vault trust: when the control node runs as root everywhere An agentless configuration tool is a fleet-wide root shell with a scheduler. The control node connects to every managed host and runs tasks that escalate privilege, and it decrypts the secrets those tasks need. Two trust questions decide the blast radius. First, escalation scope: become is often set at the play or role level so every task runs privileged, and any role, variable, or templated input that flows into those tasks runs as root on every host it touches. Second, secret handling: vault-encrypted values are only as protected as the decryption key, and a key exposed to the runner, passed on a command line, or logged is a fleet-wide secret leak. When a play escalates and decrypts across many hosts, an untrusted role or an exposed key is not one host's problem. You audit this by scoping where escalation applies and tracing what runs under it, and by checking how vault secrets are decrypted and whether the key or the plaintext leaks. ## When to use - Playbooks escalate privilege with become across managed hosts, often at the play or role level. …
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How to install
mdr add unboundcompute/security-agent-skills/auditing-ansible-become-and-vault-trust@sha256:e0ed27bf2dd75dceThe line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260827.b5f41a4, 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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The registry has recorded 1 version of this file, committed on Aug 27, 2026.
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Source
unboundcompute/security-agent-skills · 26 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-09-08 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_py5st2bqmqukfb7z GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=unboundcompute/security-agent-skills/auditing-ansible-become-and-vault-trust GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/e0ed27bf2dd75dcef1ce9406260da1b8242eb26afa37c0d58505349f21c3a38a
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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.