provisioning-agent-identity SKILL.md skillA
provisioning-agent-identity 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/provisioning-agent-identity@git:20261016.0ab5ac9Pins git:20261016.0ab5ac9 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- tkhq/tk
- Path
skills/provisioning-agent-identity/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 5
- Latest version
- git:20261016.0ab5ac9, committed Oct 16, 2026
- First version recorded
- Sep 22, 2026
- Size
- 7,212 bytes
- Repository stars
- 62
- License
- Apache-2.0
Provision a non-root, tagged Turnkey agent user on one never-expiring API key generated on the agent host, fenced by the credential DENY, and prove the identity from the agent's own credential. Use when an agent needs a permanent credential before any capability is granted; not for secrets, signing, or SSH access, which their own workflows add, and not for expiring session keys (provisioning-session-agent).
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
# Provisioning an agent identity Result: a tagged non-root user whose single API key never expires, whose private half exists only on the agent host, and which cannot change its own credentials. The identity grants no capability: exports, signing, and SSH access are each added by their own workflow. Acceptance is proven from the agent's credential, never root's. ## Reference - [resources](../../docs/resources.md): `user tag`, `user create`, `api-key` records, and `policy create` flags. - [authentication](../../docs/authentication.md): `profile create`, `login`, and `whoami` records and the credential file location. - [activities](../../docs/activities.md): `activity wait` on a pending user creation. ## Rules - Principal separation: root creates the tag, the user, and the DENY and then stops. The agent never runs as root, and root never runs the agent's workload. - The private key is generated on the agent host by `profile create`. Only `data.publicKey` travels to root; a key generated on root's machine and copied over is not this route. - `agents-no-credentials` is mandatory. Self-targeted credential changes …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add tkhq/tk/provisioning-agent-identity@sha256:e9650c25ff75c336The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20261016.0ab5ac9, 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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| git:20261016.0ab5ac9 latest | 2026-10-16 | 0ab5ac9 | 7,212 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20261016.fd9d680 | 2026-10-16 | fd9d680 | 7,209 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260929.a1388c6 | 2026-09-29 | a1388c6 | 9,875 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260929.338343f | 2026-09-29 | 338343f | 9,856 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260922.c713b9a | 2026-09-22 | c713b9a | 9,849 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 (7212 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_tgwuikamisxqvkcr GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=tkhq/tk/provisioning-agent-identity GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/e9650c25ff75c336f43bd720447c09c69a303e4bb59f074f64d4cc64a9b8b153
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