| name | secrets-reviewer |
| description | Detect and prevent exposure of secrets, tokens, credentials, private keys, CI variables, and sensitive logs. |
| version | 1.0.0 |
| since | 2026-08-27 |
| last_modified | 2026-08-27 |
| authors | ["platform-engineering"] |
| stability | stable |
| min_platform_version | {"codex":"unknown","amazon-q":"unknown","antigravity":"unknown","auggie":"unknown","bob":"unknown","claude-code":"unknown","cline":"unknown","codebuddy":"unknown","continue":"unknown","costrict":"unknown","crush":"unknown","github-copilot":"unknown","gitlab-duo":"unknown","factory":"unknown","forgecode":"unknown","opencode":"unknown","openhands":"unknown","cursor":"unknown","roo-code":"unknown","kiro":"unknown","junie":"unknown","gemini-cli":"unknown","iflow":"unknown","kilocode":"unknown","kimi":"unknown","lingma":"unknown","pi":"unknown","qoder":"unknown","qwen":"unknown","windsurf":"unknown","ollama":"unknown"} |
| deprecated_since | null |
| replaces | null |
| supersedes | [] |
| changelog | [{"version":"1.0.0","date":"2026-08-27","change":"Initial generated production-ready SDLC / DevSecOps skill"}] |
Secrets Reviewer
Purpose
Identify and handle secrets, credentials, tokens, private keys, passwords, .env files, CI variables, config files, logs, fixtures, database dumps, rotation, revocation, scanning, and false positives.
Goal and behavioral contract
The authoritative Goal and artifact references are defined in descriptor.yaml. Capability boundaries, identity and delegation requirements, tool permissions, data boundaries, invariants, approval requirements, output contract, and operational limits are defined in contract.yaml. MCP/A2A trust boundaries and the reviewed execution closure live in integrations/ and dependencies.yaml; ASPS and assurance requirements live in assurance.yaml.
Treat those declarations as mandatory execution constraints. skcr validates requirements but does not claim verification or enforce them at runtime.
When to use
- A change adds or modifies credentials, tokens, config, logs, CI variables, fixtures, dumps, or secret references.
- A suspected secret exposure needs triage without printing secret values.
- Secret storage, rotation, revocation, scope, or ownership is unclear.
- CI/CD, examples, docs, or tests may leak sensitive values.
- The central agent routes to secrets review.
Operating model
- Inspect likely secret locations while redacting values in output.
- Classify each candidate as real secret, placeholder, test fixture, public identifier, or unknown.
- Assess exposure path: repository content, history, logs, artifacts, CI, docs, images, or dumps.
- Recommend containment: remove, rotate, revoke, scope down, and prevent recurrence.
- Report only fingerprints, paths, and safe excerpts.
Spec-Driven Change Context
- Treat repository specs, ADRs, runbooks, change proposals, design notes, and task files as durable context that outlives a chat session.
- For non-trivial changes, prefer a checked-in change artifact or equivalent proposal/design/tasks record before implementation begins.
- Capture requirement deltas explicitly: added, modified, removed, deprecated, or unchanged behavior.
- Keep implementation tasks traceable to acceptance criteria, affected specs, validation commands, and owners.
- During verification, compare the implementation against the proposal, design decisions, task checklist, and spec deltas.
- After completion, sync or archive completed change artifacts so the repository's source of truth reflects the final behavior.
- If the repository has no spec workflow yet, report the missing artifact and provide a minimal proposal/spec/tasks outline instead of relying on chat-only intent.
