Find Credential Usage
This skill identifies how specific credentials are being utilized across your systems for improved security and compliance management.
Install on your platform
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Run in terminal (recommended)
claude mcp add find-credential-usage npx -- -y @trustedskills/find-credential-usage
Or manually add to ~/.claude/settings.json
{
"mcpServers": {
"find-credential-usage": {
"command": "npx",
"args": [
"-y",
"@trustedskills/find-credential-usage"
]
}
}
}Requires Claude Code (claude CLI). Run claude --version to verify your install.
About This Skill
What it does
This skill, find-credential-usage, helps locate and understand how credentials are being utilized within a system. It can identify where specific usernames or passwords appear in code or configuration files. This is valuable for security audits, troubleshooting access issues, and ensuring best practices around credential management.
When to use it
- Security Audit: You need to quickly find all instances of a particular username or password used within your codebase.
- Troubleshooting Access Errors: An application isn't working as expected, and you suspect incorrect credentials are being used somewhere.
- Credential Rotation Planning: Before rotating passwords, you want to identify every location where the current password is in use.
- Code Review: During a code review, you need to verify that sensitive information like API keys or database passwords aren't hardcoded.
Key capabilities
- Credential identification
- Location tracking within files
- Support for various file types (implied)
Example prompts
- "Find all uses of the password 'MySecretPassword' in this project."
- "Where is the username 'adminUser' used?"
- "Show me every location where an API key appears in these files."
Tips & gotchas
The effectiveness of this skill depends on having access to the relevant codebase or configuration files. It’s best suited for projects with well-defined file structures and clear credential usage patterns.
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Security Audits
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