secret-handling SKILL.md skillA
secret-handling from arbiterforge/codearbiter is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add arbiterforge/codearbiter/secret-handling@git:20261025.6e96d09Pins git:20261025.6e96d09 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- arbiterforge/codearbiter
- Path
plugins/ca-pi/routines/secret-handling/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 3
- Latest version
- git:20261025.6e96d09, committed Oct 25, 2026
- First version recorded
- Jul 24, 2026
- Size
- 4,808 bytes
- Repository stars
- 152
- License
- AGPL-3.0
The secret-source gate. Routed to when changed code reads, writes, or passes a secret — API key, token, password, connection string, signing key, certificate, or any value that grants access. Validates that every secret comes from the approved store and never lands in source, log, test fixture, error response, image, or LLM prompt. The auth-crypto-reviewer agent is dispatched as the reviewer.
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
# secret-handling
The secret-source gate. Routed to when changed code reads, writes, generates, stores, or passes a secret. If a value's secret status is uncertain, treat it as a secret.
## Pre-flight
Read these, or STOP and surface the gap — never guess the policy:
- The complete format-selected `security-controls` policy, read by `<plugin-root>/includes/knowledge.md` ("Read security policy before a security decision") — the approved secret store, access method (IAM role, workload identity, service-account token — never long-lived static keys), and required reference format. If the required policy is absent or unreadable, BLOCK; do not infer the store from scope blocks.
## Phase 1 — Identify · gate: BLOCK
Scan the changed code for secret-bearing names: `password`, `secret`, `token`, `key`, `credential`, `api_key`, `apikey`, `private`, `cert`, `passphrase`. For each match, record its source (where the value originates) and every sink (where it flows). No candidate may remain unclassified.
Gate: every candidate secret is listed with its source and sinks.
## Phase 2 — Source · gate: BLOCK
…Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add arbiterforge/codearbiter/secret-handling@sha256:b596b73b4d6936f9The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20261025.6e96d09, 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 3 versions of this file, between Jul 24, 2026 and Oct 25, 2026, about one every 46 days.
| version | committed | commit | size | audit | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| git:20261025.6e96d09 latest | 2026-10-25 | 6e96d09 | 4,808 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260808.362892a | 2026-08-08 | 362892a | 4,641 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260724.a3a2df2 | 2026-07-24 | a3a2df2 | 4,610 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 (4808 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
arbiterforge/codearbiter · 152 stars · license AGPL-3.0 · pushed 2026-11-07 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_zbns6tr2jgyrrwrk GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=arbiterforge/codearbiter/secret-handling GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/b596b73b4d6936f99bd969423aad86cc22dd270240b4098038a0075d4bc576e6
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