turnkey-tk SKILL.md skillA

turnkey-tk 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/turnkey-tk@git:20261016.fd9d680

Pins 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/SKILL.md
Versions recorded
5
Latest version
git:20261016.fd9d680, committed Oct 16, 2026
First version recorded
Sep 22, 2026
Size
6,182 bytes
Repository stars
62
License
Apache-2.0

Set up and operate Turnkey agent authorization with the tk CLI: root and agent identities, tags, policies, approvals, secrets, expiring session keys, SSH, Git signing, inspection, and deployment beside an agent. Use for any request about who may act on Turnkey and how an unattended agent authenticates, signs, or renews its credential; not for wallets, chain signing, or broadcasting.

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

# Turnkey `tk` workflows

`tk` is the CLI for agent authorization on Turnkey: named profiles holding
P-256 API credentials, users and tags, policies, Secrets, expiring session
keys, SSH keys served by an agent, and OpenPGP signing. An agent here is any
principal that acts without a person watching: an LLM agent, a service, a
cron job, a CI runner. These workflows set one up and operate it. The `tk`
binary carries this package: `tk skills install --into DIR` writes it as
`DIR/turnkey-tk`.

Read [cli-convention.md](references/cli-convention.md) once per task. It
defines the JSON record every command prints, how pending work is resumed,
and the placeholders the examples use. Then load only the workflow the
request selects and the references that workflow names.

## Which workflow

| Request sounds like | Load |
|---|---|
| "set up Turnkey for our agents", "create the root profile", "which approval model" | [bootstrapping-organization](bootstrapping-organization/SKILL.md) |
| "create a user", "add a tag", "rotate an API key", "revoke this credential", "add a profile on this machine" | [managing-identities](managing-identities/SKILL.md) |
…

Read the whole file at its exact version.

How to install

The exact contents, by fingerprint
mdr add tkhq/tk/turnkey-tk@sha256:2d52bef986b944fa

The 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.

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Versions

The registry has recorded 5 versions of this file, between Sep 22, 2026 and Oct 16, 2026, about one every 6 days.

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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 (6182 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_r4ua42ede3moeazk
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=tkhq/tk/turnkey-tk
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/2d52bef986b944fa6a0b714fe195a7bbcbbdaf4571140af15f57bfb355ad42f4

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.

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