create-secret SKILL.md skillA
create-secret from harness/harness-skills is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add harness/harness-skills/create-secret@v1.0.0Pins v1.0.0 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- harness/harness-skills
- Path
skills/infrastructure/create-secret/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 1
- Latest version
- v1.0.0, committed Oct 14, 2026
- Size
- 6,983 bytes
- Repository stars
- 122
- License
- Apache-2.0
Generate Harness Secret definitions and manage secrets via MCP v2 tools. Supports SecretText, SecretFile, SSHKey, and WinRmCredentials types with configurable secret managers (Harness built-in, HashiCorp Vault, AWS Secrets Manager, Azure Key Vault, GCP Secret Manager). Use when asked to create a secret, store credentials, manage API keys, set up SSH keys, configure WinRM credentials, rotate secrets, or reference secrets in pipelines. Trigger phrases: create secret, secret text, secret file…
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
# Create Secret Skill
Generate Harness Secret definitions and manage secrets via MCP v2 tools.
## MCP v2 Tools Used
| Tool | Resource Type | Purpose |
|------|--------------|---------|
| `harness_list` | `secret` | List existing secrets |
| `harness_get` | `secret` | Get secret metadata (not the value) |
| `harness_create` | `secret` | Create a new secret |
| `harness_update` | `secret` | Update secret metadata or value |
| `harness_delete` | `secret` | Delete a secret |
| `harness_describe` | `secret` | Discover secret resource schema |
## Secret Types
### SecretText
Stores text-based secrets: passwords, API tokens, connection strings.
```yaml
secret:
identifier: my_api_key
name: My API Key
description: API key for external service
type: SecretText
spec:
secretManagerIdentifier: harnessSecretManager
valueType: Inline
value: <secret_value>
```
For other secret types (SecretFile, SSHKey with KeyReference/KeyPath/Password, WinRmCredentials with NTLM/Kerberos) and secret manager configuration, consult references/secret-types.md.
## Secret Scopes
| Scope | Visibility | MCP Parameters |
|-------|-----------|----------------|
…Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add harness/harness-skills/create-secret@sha256:4334c31e3cb780baThe line at the top of this page pins the label v1.0.0, 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 1 version of this file, committed on Oct 14, 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 (6983 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
harness/harness-skills · 122 stars · license Apache-2.0 · pushed 2026-10-14 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_remy47znduanydte GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=harness/harness-skills/create-secret GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/4334c31e3cb780bacbd2ba0bf10ab66f1cb86af00a989667a3c778ca29bf4611
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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.