detecting-secrets SKILL.md skillF
detecting-secrets from qte77/claude-code-plugins is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add qte77/claude-code-plugins/detecting-secrets@git:20260925.de695e3Pins git:20260925.de695e3 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- F, 16 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- qte77/claude-code-plugins
- Path
plugins/security-audit/skills/detecting-secrets/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 2
- Latest version
- git:20260925.de695e3, committed Sep 25, 2026
- First version recorded
- Apr 11, 2026
- Size
- 4,237 bytes
- Repository stars
- 3
- License
- Apache-2.0
Detect hardcoded secrets, API keys, tokens, and credentials in code and git history. Use when auditing for leaked secrets or before publishing code.
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
# Secrets and Credential Detection
**Scope**: $ARGUMENTS
## When to Use
- Pre-publish audit (open-sourcing, npm publish, Docker push)
- Reviewing PRs for accidental credential commits
- Periodic security sweep
- Post-incident secret rotation verification
## Workflow
1. **Scan files** for secret patterns (see detection rules)
2. **Check configuration files** (.env, config, YAML, JSON)
3. **Inspect git history** for previously committed secrets
4. **Classify findings** by type and severity
5. **Recommend remediation** (rotate, revoke, remove)
## Detection Patterns
### API Keys and Tokens
- [ ] AWS access keys (`AKIA[0-9A-Z]{16}`)
- [ ] AWS secret keys (`[0-9a-zA-Z/+]{40}` near AWS context)
- [ ] GCP service account keys (JSON with `"type": "service_account"`)
- [ ] GCP API keys (`AIza[0-9A-Za-z_-]{35}`)
- [ ] Azure connection strings (`DefaultEndpointsProtocol=`)
- [ ] GitHub tokens (`ghp_`, `gho_`, `ghu_`, `ghs_`, `ghr_`)
- [ ] GitLab tokens (`glpat-`)
- [ ] Slack tokens (`xoxb-`, `xoxp-`, `xoxs-`)
- [ ] Stripe keys (`sk_live_`, `pk_live_`, `rk_live_`)
- [ ] Generic API key patterns (`api[_-]?key`, `apikey`, `api[_-]?secret`)
### Private Keys
…Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add qte77/claude-code-plugins/detecting-secrets@sha256:a2c604387bcfb84fThe line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260925.de695e3, 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.
[](https://markdownregistry.com/a/art_tsdjkaoc3dhqfixa)
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Versions
The registry has recorded 2 versions of this file, between Apr 11, 2026 and Sep 25, 2026, about one every 167 days.
| version | committed | commit | size | audit | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| git:20260925.de695e3 latest | 2026-09-25 | de695e3 | 4,237 B | F | view · diff |
| git:20260411.23e3d61 | 2026-04-11 | 23e3d61 | 4,149 B | F | view |
Audit of the latest version
- FAIL, critical: No credential-shaped string (matched: -----BEGIN RSA PRIVATE KEY-----)
- pass: Frontmatter block present
- pass: Frontmatter declares a name
- pass: Frontmatter declares a description
- pass: Size between 200 bytes and 200 KB (4237 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 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
Starting a new one? Use a template for SKILL.md on mdpantry, which passes every one of these checks and says what to change in it.
Source
qte77/claude-code-plugins · 3 stars · license Apache-2.0 · pushed 2026-10-19 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_tsdjkaoc3dhqfixa GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=qte77/claude-code-plugins/detecting-secrets GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/a2c604387bcfb84f5003f1ae15367c55d67d673455df3de9fad541a37f92ebc4
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