credentials SKILL.md skillB
credentials from pengqianhan/ai-human-research-os is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add pengqianhan/ai-human-research-os/credentials@git:20260715.38d79bePins git:20260715.38d79be in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- B, 16 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- pengqianhan/ai-human-research-os
- Path
research-skills-hub/science-skills/credentials/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 1
- Latest version
- git:20260715.38d79be, committed Jul 15, 2026
- Size
- 4,159 bytes
- Repository stars
- 3
- License
- MIT
Instructions for handling API keys and credentials safely, verifying their presence, and prompting the user to add them if missing using a safe protocol.
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
# Safe Credentials Protocol Many skills require API keys or other credentials to function or to access higher rate limits. This skill defines the standard safe credentials protocol for verifying and prompting for these credentials without leaking sensitive keys into the agent context or the conversation history. ## Safe Verification (No Leaks) As soon as a skill that requires a credential or API key looks relevant to the user's request, you **MUST** immediately verify if the credential is present in the `.env` file (typically located in your home directory `~/.env` or the project root) — **before doing any other work** for that skill. **CRITICAL**: You must verify the presence of the credential *without* printing its value to the terminal or reading it into your context. ### How to verify: Use `grep` in quiet and suppress-errors mode (`-sq`) to check if the variable is defined in `~/.env`. The `-s` flag ensures the command works cleanly even if `~/.env` does not exist yet. ```bash grep -sq "^CREDENTIAL_NAME=" ~/.env ``` Replace `CREDENTIAL_NAME` with the actual credential name required by the calling skill (e.g., `ALPHAGENOME_API_KEY` or `USER_EMAIL`). …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add pengqianhan/ai-human-research-os/credentials@sha256:82f252acbf135c37The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260715.38d79be, 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 Jul 15, 2026.
Audit of the latest version
- fail: No instruction to read or print local credentials (matched: cat ~/.env`, `grep "VAR" ~/.env)
- pass: Frontmatter block present
- pass: Frontmatter declares a name
- pass: Frontmatter declares a description
- pass: Size between 200 bytes and 200 KB (4159 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 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
pengqianhan/ai-human-research-os · 3 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-11-03 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_wca7mtfhrlwey5ki GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=pengqianhan/ai-human-research-os/credentials GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/82f252acbf135c37d04a14c20856f159fce7142e45cda5d318e1504426578bcc
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