ghost-scan-secrets

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Ghost Security - Secrets and credentials scanner. Scans codebase for leaked API keys, tokens, passwords, and sensitive data. Detects hardcoded secrets and generates findings with severity and remediation guidance. Use when the user asks to check for leaked secrets, scan for credentials, find hardcoded API keys or passwords, detect exposed .env values, or audit code for sensitive data exposure.

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Sourceghostsecurity/skills

Added on2026-02-24

NPX Install

npx skill4agent add ghostsecurity/skills ghost-scan-secrets

SKILL.md Content

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Ghost Security Secrets Scanner — Orchestrator

You are the top-level orchestrator for secrets scanning. Your ONLY job is to call the Task tool to spawn subagents to do the actual work. Each step below gives you the exact Task tool parameters to use. Do not do the work yourself.

Defaults

repo_path: the current working directory

scan_dir:

~/.ghost/repos/<repo_id>/scans/<short_sha>/secrets

short_sha:
```
git rev-parse --short HEAD
```
(falls back to
```
YYYYMMDD
```
for non-git dirs)

$ARGUMENTS

Any values provided above override the defaults.

Execution

Setup — compute paths and create output directories
Initialize Poltergeist — install the poltergeist binary
Scan for Secrets — run poltergeist against the codebase
Analyze Candidates — assess each candidate for confirmation
Summarize Results — generate the final scan report

Step 0: Setup

Run this Bash command to compute the repo-specific output directory, create it, and locate the skill files:

repo_name=$(basename "$(pwd)") && remote_url=$(git remote get-url origin 2>/dev/null || pwd) && short_hash=$(printf '%s' "$remote_url" | git hash-object --stdin | cut -c1-8) && repo_id="${repo_name}-${short_hash}" && short_sha=$(git rev-parse --short HEAD 2>/dev/null || date +%Y%m%d) && ghost_repo_dir="$HOME/.ghost/repos/${repo_id}" && scan_dir="${ghost_repo_dir}/scans/${short_sha}/secrets" && cache_dir="${ghost_repo_dir}/cache" && mkdir -p "$scan_dir/findings" && skill_dir=$(find . -path '*skills/scan-secrets/SKILL.md' 2>/dev/null | head -1 | xargs dirname) && echo "scan_dir=$scan_dir cache_dir=$cache_dir skill_dir=$skill_dir"

Store

scan_dir

(the absolute path under

~/.ghost/repos/

),

cache_dir

(the repo-level cache directory), and

skill_dir

(the absolute path to the skill directory containing

agents/

,

scripts/

, etc.).

After this step, your only remaining tool is Task. Do not use Bash, Read, Grep, Glob, or any other tool for Steps 1–4.

Step 1: Initialize Poltergeist

Call the Task tool to initialize the poltergeist binary:

json

{
  "description": "Initialize poltergeist binary",
  "subagent_type": "general-purpose",
  "prompt": "You are the init agent. Read and follow the instructions in <skill_dir>/agents/init/agent.md.\n\n## Inputs\n- skill_dir: <skill_dir>"
}

The init agent installs poltergeist to

~/.ghost/bin/poltergeist

(or

poltergeist.exe

on Windows).

Step 2: Scan for Secrets

Call the Task tool to run the poltergeist scanner:

json

{
  "description": "Scan for secret candidates",
  "subagent_type": "general-purpose",
  "prompt": "You are the scan agent. Read and follow the instructions in <skill_dir>/agents/scan/agent.md.\n\n## Inputs\n- repo_path: <repo_path>\n- scan_dir: <scan_dir>"
}

The scan agent returns the candidate count and writes

<scan_dir>/candidates.json

.

If candidate count is 0: Skip to Step 4 (Summarize) with no findings.

Step 3: Analyze Candidates

Call the Task tool to analyze the candidates:

json

{
  "description": "Analyze secret candidates",
  "subagent_type": "general-purpose",
  "prompt": "You are the analysis agent. Read and follow the instructions in <skill_dir>/agents/analyze/agent.md.\n\n## Inputs\n- repo_path: <repo_path>\n- scan_dir: <scan_dir>\n- skill_dir: <skill_dir>\n- cache_dir: <cache_dir>"
}

The analysis agent spawns parallel analyzers for each candidate and writes finding files to

<scan_dir>/findings/

.

Step 4: Summarize Results

Call the Task tool to summarize the findings:

json

{
  "description": "Summarize scan results",
  "subagent_type": "general-purpose",
  "prompt": "You are the summarize agent. Read and follow the instructions in <skill_dir>/agents/summarize/agent.md.\n\n## Inputs\n- repo_path: <repo_path>\n- scan_dir: <scan_dir>\n- skill_dir: <skill_dir>\n- cache_dir: <cache_dir>"
}

After executing all the tasks, report the scan results to the user.

Error Handling

If any Task call fails, retry it once. If it fails again, stop and report the failure.

ghost-scan-secrets

NPX Install

Tags

SKILL.md Content

Ghost Security Secrets Scanner — Orchestrator

Defaults

Execution

Step 0: Setup

Step 1: Initialize Poltergeist

Step 2: Scan for Secrets

Step 3: Analyze Candidates

Step 4: Summarize Results

Error Handling