Safe Credentials Protocol

Many skills require API keys or other credentials to function or to access higher rate limits. This skill defines the standard safe credentials protocol for verifying and prompting for these credentials without leaking sensitive keys into the agent context or the conversation history.

Safe Verification (No Leaks)

As soon as a skill that requires a credential or API key looks relevant to the user's request, you MUST immediately verify if the credential is present in the .env file (typically located in your home directory ~/.env or the project root) — before doing any other work for that skill.

CRITICAL: You must verify the presence of the credential without printing its value to the terminal or reading it into your context.

How to verify: