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handle-secrets

v1.0.5

Best practices for handling user-provided secrets in CLI tools: secure input methods, credential storage, secret masking, and language-specific libraries.

Claude Code1 Skill

By Christopher BooneLicense: MIT2 GitHub starsUpdated last week

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Sep 16, 2026
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Install handle-secrets for Claude Code

Installs for the current user
claude plugin marketplace add IchenDEV/agent-plugin-mkt
claude plugin marketplace update agent-plugin-marketplace
claude plugin install handle-secrets-2@agent-plugin-marketplace

Paste and run these commands in a terminal with Claude Code. They add and refresh the PluginsMP catalog, then install this plugin.

The installer fetches third-party code from the source repository shown on this page. This directory validates manifest structure and source location, but does not perform a security audit; review the manifest, components, and source before installing.

Get the source manually
git clone https://github.com/cboone/agent-harness-plugins

Clone the source repository, then follow its setup instructions to add the plugin to a compatible client. The plugin root is plugins/handle-secrets/.

Plugin files

plugins/handle-secrets/
├── .claude-plugin/plugin.json
└── skills/handle-secrets/SKILL.md

Included Skills1

handle-secretsskills/handle-secrets/SKILL.md

Best practices for handling user-provided secrets in CLI tools. Use when: (1) building CLI tools that accept API keys, tokens, or passwords from users, (2) reviewing secret-handling code for security issues, (3) choosing between input methods (env vars, stdin, keychains, config files), (4) implementing credential storage or retrieval. Covers the security hierarchy of input methods, credential storage patterns, secret masking, and language-specific libraries.

Plugin manifests1

plugins/handle-secrets/.claude-plugin/plugin.json
{
  "author": {
    "name": "Christopher Boone"
  },
  "description": "Best practices for handling user-provided secrets in CLI tools: secure input methods, credential storage, secret masking, and language-specific libraries.",
  "homepage": "https://github.com/cboone/agent-harness-plugins",
  "keywords": [
    "cli",
    "credentials",
    "keychain",
    "secrets",
    "security"
  ],
  "license": "MIT",
  "name": "handle-secrets",
  "repository": "https://github.com/cboone/agent-harness-plugins",
  "skills": "./skills",
  "version": "1.0.5"
}

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