sidecar-patterns SKILL.md skillA
sidecar-patterns 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/sidecar-patterns@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/sidecar-patterns/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 5
- Latest version
- git:20261016.fd9d680, committed Oct 16, 2026
- First version recorded
- Sep 29, 2026
- Size
- 12,421 bytes
- Repository stars
- 62
- License
- Apache-2.0
Run tk beside an unattended agent so the agent process holds only what it needs: separate credential stores, a renewal loop outside the agent, secrets injected at startup, an SSH socket per OS user, commit signing through a broker socket, and an operator alert that does not depend on the agent's own credential. Use when deploying an agent that uses tk on a VM or in a container, or when a deployment keeps losing its session key; not for choosing policies or approval models.
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
# Sidecar patterns Result: a deployment where the agent reads its secrets once at startup, a separate renewal loop keeps the agent's expiring credential fresh, SSH goes through a socket, git signs commits through a broker's socket, and an operator hears about an expired credential from something other than the agent. Every `tk` step in this workflow is a command another workflow already documents; this workflow fixes where each one runs and what state it keeps. ## Reference - [sessions](../../docs/sessions.md): the four `session` commands and their records. - [secrets](../../docs/secrets.md): `secret env` and pending exports. - [ssh-agent](../../docs/ssh-agent.md): the agent socket and its lifecycle. - [gpg-signing](../../docs/gpg-signing.md): `gpg agent serve` and the client socket. - [authentication](../../docs/authentication.md): the `whoami` record and how `HOME` and `TK_PROFILE` select a profile. ## Rules - Separation means one boundary (a container, VM, sandbox, or OS user), one `HOME`, one process tree, and one set of mounts per principal; the agent's profile and the provisioner's profile never share a credential directory. …
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How to install
mdr add tkhq/tk/sidecar-patterns@sha256:a271157df2b50accThe 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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The registry has recorded 5 versions of this file, between Sep 29, 2026 and Oct 16, 2026, about one every 4 days.
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| git:20261016.fd9d680 latest | 2026-10-16 | fd9d680 | 12,421 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260930.97865fa | 2026-09-30 | 97865fa | 12,386 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260930.8ac73e7 | 2026-09-30 | 8ac73e7 | 12,062 B | A | view · diff |
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| git:20260929.338343f | 2026-09-29 | 338343f | 11,735 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 (12421 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_s6ef6gdwn4jv7jqi GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=tkhq/tk/sidecar-patterns GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/a271157df2b50accaf0f95fbd8b9034d960ffec7987a133e8bb44530c5db4270
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