secrets-in-git-history

92 / 100 · Low risk

Fine to try. Some of what it can do is expected: a coding skill usually runs build and test commands.

By UseOSINT/Skills (GitHub) · coding · 61 stars · scanned at commit 06243a5

Mine GitHub, GitLab and git history for identities, infrastructure and leaked credentials using commit author emails, GitHub code search, the commit .patch endpoint, trufflehog, gitleaks, git log pickaxe and full-ref history scans. Use when investigating a developer or organisation on GitHub, finding leaked API keys, AWS keys or tokens in code, enumerating org members and their personal repos, or recovering secrets deleted from HEAD but still present in history or forks. Applies to software sup…

Works with any agent that supports SKILL.md skills.

What this skill can do

Runs commands on your computer

The author does not mention this. Expected for a coding skill.

Found in 4 places.

skills/secrets-in-git-history/SKILL.md, line 43git clone --mirror https://github.com/example-org/example-repo.git repo.git
skills/secrets-in-git-history/SKILL.md, line 53curl -s https://github.com/example-org/example-repo/commit/<sha>.patch | head -5
skills/secrets-in-git-history/SKILL.md, line 64curl -s https://api.github.com/user/12345678 | jq '.login, .created_at'

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skills/secrets-in-git-history/SKILL.md, line 133trufflehog git file://./repo.git

Sends data to these websites: github.com, api.github.com

This is disclosed by the author in the skill's SKILL.md or README.

Found in 14 places.

skills/secrets-in-git-history/SKILL.md, line 53curl -s https://github.com/example-org/example-repo/commit/<sha>.patch | head -5
skills/secrets-in-git-history/SKILL.md, line 54curl -s https://api.github.com/repos/example-org/example-repo/commits/<sha> | jq .commit.author
skills/secrets-in-git-history/SKILL.md, line 64curl -s https://api.github.com/user/12345678 | jq '.login, .created_at'

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skills/secrets-in-git-history/reference/git-archaeology.md, line 184curl -s https://github.com/example-org/example-repo/commit/<sha>.patch | head -5
skills/secrets-in-git-history/reference/git-archaeology.md, line 187curl -s https://api.github.com/repos/example-org/example-repo/commits/<sha> \
skills/secrets-in-git-history/reference/git-archaeology.md, line 191curl -s https://api.github.com/user/12345678 | jq '.login, .created_at'
skills/secrets-in-git-history/reference/git-archaeology.md, line 194curl -s https://api.github.com/orgs/example-org/public_members | jq -r '.[].login'
skills/secrets-in-git-history/reference/git-archaeology.md, line 195curl -s https://api.github.com/users/jdoe/repos | jq -r '.[].full_name'
skills/secrets-in-git-history/reference/git-archaeology.md, line 196curl -s https://api.github.com/users/jdoe/gists | jq -r '.[].html_url'
skills/secrets-in-git-history/reference/git-archaeology.md, line 199curl -s https://api.github.com/users/jdoe/followers | jq -r '.[].login'
skills/secrets-in-git-history/reference/git-archaeology.md, line 200curl -s https://api.github.com/users/jdoe/following | jq -r '.[].login'
skills/secrets-in-git-history/reference/git-archaeology.md, line 201curl -s https://api.github.com/users/jdoe/starred | jq -r '.[].full_name'
skills/secrets-in-git-history/reference/git-archaeology.md, line 202curl -s https://api.github.com/users/jdoe/subscriptions | jq -r '.[].full_name'
skills/secrets-in-git-history/reference/git-archaeology.md, line 205curl -s https://api.github.com/users/jdoe/events/public | jq -r '.[] | "\(.created_at) \(.type) \(.repo.name)"'

Install

Paste this into your terminal. It downloads exactly the version we scanned, not whatever is newest.

if [ -e ~/.agents/skills/'secrets-in-git-history' ] || [ -L ~/.agents/skills/'secrets-in-git-history' ]; then echo 'A skill folder named secrets-in-git-history already exists — not replacing it' >&2; false; else d=$(mktemp -d) && git clone --quiet --filter=blob:none --no-checkout 'https://github.com/UseOSINT/Skills' "$d" && git -C "$d" checkout --quiet '06243a5620b0c9c97502edd4ee9e31995a3bdccd' -- 'skills/secrets-in-git-history' && mkdir -p ~/.agents/skills && cp -R "$d"/'skills/secrets-in-git-history' ~/.agents/skills/'secrets-in-git-history' && rm -rf "$d"; fi

Codex reads ~/.agents/skills directly. For Claude Code, Cursor, Copilot, Gemini CLI, Antigravity or OpenCode, also link it. For Claude Code: ln -s ~/.agents/skills/'secrets-in-git-history' ~/.claude/skills/'secrets-in-git-history' (other agents: ~/.cursor/skills, ~/.copilot/skills, ~/.gemini/skills, ~/.gemini/config/skills, ~/.config/opencode/skills). Or install through the finder skill, which does both.

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Score history

Date	Version	Score
2026-11-07	`06243a5`	92