A repository is three intelligence products: a list of humans with real email addresses, a map of the organisation's infrastructure, and a credential store nobody meant to publish. The costly mistake is scanning the working tree. Secrets deleted from HEAD stay in history forever, and commits deleted from a branch stay reachable through the fork network — scan only what is checked out and you are searching the one place the secret was definitely removed from.
Secrets In Git History is a community-contributed Claude Code skill in the red-team sub-category. It ships as a SKILL.md file that Claude Code auto-discovers under ~/.claude/skills/secrets-in-git-history/ and loads when your prompt matches the skill's trigger.
When to invoke it: 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 supply-chain risk, credential exposure response, M&A technical diligence, and insider-threat investigation.
The Secrets In Git History 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).
mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills/secrets-in-git-history curl -L https://claudskills.com/skills/secrets-in-git-history/SKILL.md \ -o ~/.claude/skills/secrets-in-git-history/SKILL.md
Or just download SKILL.md directly and drop it into ~/.claude/skills/secrets-in-git-history/. Claude Code auto-discovers it on next session.
Skills live at ~/.claude/skills/secrets-in-git-history/SKILL.md on macOS/Linux, or %USERPROFILE%\.claude\skills\secrets-in-git-history\SKILL.md on Windows. See the full install guide for step-by-step instructions.
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SKILL.md from the source repository to ~/.claude/skills/secrets-in-git-history/SKILL.md and restart Claude Code. Both flows are detailed at claudskills.com/install/.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. Secrets In Git History 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/.If you reference this skill in a blog post, paper, or documentation, you can cite it as:
@misc{secrets-in-git-history-2026,
author = {UseOSINT},
title = {Secrets In Git History [Claude Code skill]},
year = {2026},
publisher = {ClaudSkills},
url = {https://claudskills.com/skills/secrets-in-git-history/}
}Grade A · scanned 2026-10-25 — free static scan against the OWASP Agentic Skills Top 10.
The scan flagged 1 of 10 categories (filesystem), including lower-severity patterns. Patterns shown inside code fences are weighted as examples rather than instructions — read the grading methodology for what this does and does not guarantee.
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