Detect CICD Secret Exposure
Detection, hunting, and hardening methodology for secrets exposed in CI/CD pipelines: deployment keys, cloud tokens, API secrets, and registry passwords leaked through build logs, caches, artifacts, credential stores, and OIDC federation trust. Maps to MITRE ATT&CK T1552 Unsecured Credentials and its sub-techniques T1552.001 Credentials In Files, T1552.004 Private Keys, and T1552.007 Container API. Keys off GitHub and GitLab audit logs, CI job logs, AWS CloudTrail, Azure Key Vault diagnostic logs, GCP Cloud Audit Logs, and HashiCorp Vault audit devices. Gives the defender's method for spotting a leaked or abused pipeline secret, a hypothesis-driven hunt, and least-privilege hardening, and points to public rule sources. Use when investigating a possible CI/CD secret leak, a secret-scanning alert, an unexpected GetSecretValue or AccessSecretVersion, an AssumeRoleWithWebIdentity from a pipeline, a push-protection bypass, or when hardening GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Jenkins, or Azure DevOps secret handling.
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What this skill does
Detect CICD Secret Exposure is a community-contributed Claude Code skill in the cloud-security sub-category. It ships as a SKILL.md file that Claude Code auto-discovers under ~/.claude/skills/detect-cicd-secret-exposure/ and loads when your prompt matches the skill's trigger.
When to invoke it: Use when investigating a possible CI/CD secret leak, a secret-scanning alert, an unexpected GetSecretValue or AccessSecretVersion, an AssumeRoleWithWebIdentity from a pipeline, a push-protection bypass, or when hardening GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Jenkins, or Azure DevOps secret handling.
Who uses this skill
The Detect CICD Secret Exposure Claude Code skill is built for security engineers, penetration testers, DevSecOps practitioners, and development teams hardening codebases and infrastructure. It's part of ClaudSkills (also referred to as Claude Skills or Claude Code Skills) — the open community-curated registry of 211,000+ SKILL.md files for Anthropic's Claude Code agent and the wider Claude ecosystem (Claude API, Claude Agent SDK).
How to install
Free
Manual install (2 steps)
mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills/detect-cicd-secret-exposure
curl -L https://claudskills.com/skills/detect-cicd-secret-exposure/SKILL.md \
-o ~/.claude/skills/detect-cicd-secret-exposure/SKILL.md
Or just download SKILL.md directly and drop it into ~/.claude/skills/detect-cicd-secret-exposure/. Claude Code auto-discovers it on next session.
Skills live at ~/.claude/skills/detect-cicd-secret-exposure/SKILL.md on macOS/Linux, or %USERPROFILE%\.claude\skills\detect-cicd-secret-exposure\SKILL.md on Windows. See the full install guide for step-by-step instructions.
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Pro
One-click install via the desktop app
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Frequently asked questions
How do I install the Detect CICD Secret Exposure Claude Code skill?
Install via the ClaudSkills desktop app (one click) or copy
SKILL.md from the source repository to
~/.claude/skills/detect-cicd-secret-exposure/SKILL.md and restart Claude Code. Both flows are detailed at
claudskills.com/install/.
What does the Detect CICD Secret Exposure skill do?
Detection, hunting, and hardening methodology for secrets exposed in CI/CD pipelines: deployment keys, cloud tokens, API secrets, and registry passwords leaked through build logs, caches, artifacts, credential stores, and OIDC federation trust. Maps to MITRE ATT&CK T1552 Unsecured Credentials and its sub-techniques T1552.001 Credentials In Files, T1552.004 Private Keys, and T1552.007 Container API. Keys off GitHub and GitLab audit logs, CI job logs, AWS CloudTrail, Azure Key Vault diagnostic logs, GCP Cloud Audit Logs, and HashiCorp Vault audit devices. Gives the defender's method for spotting a leaked or abused pipeline secret, a hypothesis-driven hunt, and least-privilege hardening, and points to public rule sources. Use when investigating a possible CI/CD secret leak, a secret-scanning alert, an unexpected GetSecretValue or AccessSecretVersion, an AssumeRoleWithWebIdentity from a pipeline, a push-protection bypass, or when hardening GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Jenkins, or Azure DevOps secret handling.
Is this skill free to install?
Yes. ClaudSkills is an open registry — every skill keeps its source repository's license, and manual install via copy is free. ClaudSkills Pro ($9/mo, $79/yr, or $149 one-time) adds one-click install via the desktop app and a multi-signal Quality Score.
When should I use the Detect CICD Secret Exposure skill?
Use Detect CICD Secret Exposure when your Claude Code task falls under the Security category — specifically in the cloud security area. Claude Code auto-discovers installed skills and invokes the right one based on the task description, so you can also ask Claude directly (e.g. "use Detect CICD Secret Exposure" or describe the task and let Claude pick). Browse related skills at
/category/security/.
What is a Claude Code skill and how does the Detect CICD Secret Exposure skill fit in?
A Claude Code skill is a
SKILL.md file that lives under
~/.claude/skills/<name>/ and tells the Claude Code CLI agent how to perform a specific task (instructions, prompts, allowed tools). Skills are auto-discovered at session start. Detect CICD Secret Exposure is one of 67,000+ skills indexed in the open ClaudSkills catalog, classified under the Security category. Learn more at
/learn/what-is-a-claude-skill/.
Attribution & license
Cite this skill
If you reference this skill in a blog post, paper, or documentation, you can cite it as:
APA
umbrasec-labs. (2026). Detect CICD Secret Exposure [Claude Code skill]. ClaudSkills. https://claudskills.com/skills/detect-cicd-secret-exposure/
BibTeX
@misc{detect-cicd-secret-exposure-2026,
author = {umbrasec-labs},
title = {Detect CICD Secret Exposure [Claude Code skill]},
year = {2026},
publisher = {ClaudSkills},
url = {https://claudskills.com/skills/detect-cicd-secret-exposure/}
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Security scan
Grade A · scanned 2026-10-25 — free static scan against the OWASP Agentic Skills Top 10.
No risk patterns were found in any of the ten OWASP-aligned categories. How grading works ›
- ✓ Prompt injection
- ✓ Data exfiltration
- ✓ Supply chain
- ✓ Reverse shell
- ✓ Credentials
- ✓ Execution
- ✓ Filesystem
- ✓ Persistence
- ✓ Obfuscation
- ✓ Network
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