Agent skill

Quicknode Install Auth

by jeremylongshore in jeremylongshore/tons-of-skills-marketplace

Choose and configure the correct QuickNode credential boundary for RPC endpoints, the Admin API, the unified SDK, and the qn CLI.

MITAuto-check passedBackend & APIs

Install Quicknode Install Auth

skills CLI
$ npx skills add jeremylongshore/tons-of-skills-marketplace --skill quicknode-install-auth -a claude-code

Project install by default; add -g for ~/.claude/skills/.

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install jeremylongshore/tons-of-skills-marketplace quicknode-install-auth --agent claude-code

Project scope by default; add --scope user for a personal install. Needs GitHub CLI 2.90.0 or later (public preview).

Manual copy
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/jeremylongshore/tons-of-skills-marketplace.git skills-src && mkdir -p .claude/skills && cp -r skills-src/skills/.curated/quicknode-install-auth .claude/skills/quicknode-install-auth && rm -rf skills-src

Use ~/.claude/skills/ instead of .claude/skills for a personal install. The folder must contain SKILL.md.

Claude Code skills documentation · loads skills from .claude/skills/

Facts

Skill name
quicknode-install-auth
GitHub stars
2.8k
Token cost
~1.1k tokens
SKILL.md length
455 words
Files
2 (incl. references)
Skills in repo
3,342
Repo updated
First seen
Licence
MIT

At a glance

Choose and configure the correct QuickNode credential boundary for RPC endpoints, the Admin API, the unified SDK, and the qn CLI.

  • Works in 6 steps: Inventory credential consumers → Select the credential type → Separate environments → …
  • Onboarding an endpoint
  • SKILL.md covers Overview, Prerequisites, Instructions and Tool Discipline, plus 4 more sections
  • Needs QN_SDK__API_KEY

What it does

Quicknode Install Auth is an agent skill from jeremylongshore/tons-of-skills-marketplace. Choose and configure the correct QuickNode credential boundary for RPC endpoints, the Admin API, the unified SDK, and the qn CLI. Use when onboarding an endpoint, separating environments, or rotating access without exposing tokens. Trigger with: "authenticate QuickNode", "configure a QuickNode endpoint", "rotate QuickNode credentials".

Its SKILL.md is about 1.1k tokens, which your agent loads only when the skill is triggered. The skill folder holds 2 other files, including reference files (for example `references/official-docs.md`). Compatibility notes: Requires a QuickNode account; Admin API and advanced endpoint-security features depend on the account plan

It sits in Backend & APIs. It works with Bash. The repository describes itself as: Model-agnostic agent-skills platform with a harness-free canonical layer, verified adapters, and the ccpi package manager. Explore at tonsofskills.com. The licence is MIT.

When your agent uses it

  • Onboarding an endpoint
  • Separating environments
  • Rotating access without exposing tokens
  • With: authenticate QuickNode

Example prompts

  • “authenticate QuickNode”
  • “configure a QuickNode endpoint”
  • “rotate QuickNode credentials”
  • “/quicknode-install-auth”

Requirements

  • A credential in QN_SDK__API_KEY
  • Compatibility (from SKILL.md): Requires a QuickNode account; Admin API and advanced endpoint-security features depend on the account plan
  • Pre-approved tools (allowed-tools): Read, Grep, Write, Edit, Bash(qn:*), Bash(curl:*)

Workflow steps

6 steps, taken from the step headings in SKILL.md.

  1. Inventory credential consumers
  2. Select the credential type
  3. Separate environments
  4. Configure clients safely
  5. Verify the intended boundary
  6. Record rotation

What it can do on your machine

Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit 80f86df. It shows what the files ask for, not the result of running them.

  • Tool permissions

    Pre-approves these tools, so the agent can use them without asking each time:

    • Read
    • Grep
    • Write
    • Edit
    • Bash(qn:*)
    • Bash(curl:*)

    From allowed-tools in the SKILL.md frontmatter.

  • Runs code

    No scripts in the folder and no shell commands in SKILL.md.

    From the folder's file list and the shell code blocks in SKILL.md.

  • Network

    Links to these hosts (documentation or services it may open):

    • quicknode.com

    From URLs in SKILL.md, links to its own repository left out.

  • Credentials

    Names these keys or tokens, usually read from environment variables:

    • QN_SDK__API_KEY

    From names ending in _API_KEY, _TOKEN, _SECRET, _KEY or _PASSWORD in SKILL.md.

  • Compatibility

    Requires a QuickNode account; Admin API and advanced endpoint-security features depend on the account plan

    From compatibility in the SKILL.md frontmatter.

Context cost

Quicknode Install Auth loads about 1.1k tokens when it runs, and up to ~1.3k if it reads all its reference files. Until then it costs about 90 tokens; SKILL.md has 455 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~90
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches
~1.1k
With references · SKILL.md plus every file in references/, read only if the agent opens them
~1.3k

Estimates: characters ÷ 4, the usual rule of thumb; real counts depend on the model's tokenizer. Scripts and assets cost tokens only if the agent reads them.

Safety

Auto-check passed

The automated check found no risky patterns in SKILL.md.

Automated static check — not a guarantee. Review scripts before installing. It scans the text of SKILL.md for risky patterns (piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files, hidden Unicode, destructive commands); files beside SKILL.md are not scanned.

SKILL.md

The full file from jeremylongshore/tons-of-skills-marketplace at commit 80f86df, republished under its MIT licence (© jeremylongshore). 455 words, ~1,088 tokens.

Download SKILL.mdSave it as .claude/skills/quicknode-install-auth/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder). This skill also uses 1 other file; get the full folder from GitHub.
name
quicknode-install-auth
description
Choose and configure the correct QuickNode credential boundary for RPC endpoints, the Admin API, the unified SDK, and the qn CLI. Use when onboarding an endpoint, separating environments, or rotating access without exposing tokens. Trigger with: "authenticate QuickNode", "configure a QuickNode endpoint", "rotate QuickNode credentials".
allowed-tools
Read, Grep, Write, Edit, Bash(qn:*), Bash(curl:*)
compatibility
Requires a QuickNode account; Admin API and advanced endpoint-security features depend on the account plan
version
2.0.0
argument-hint
[client-and-environment-scope]
model
inherit
effort
high
license
MIT
author
Jeremy Longshore <jeremy@intentsolutions.io>
tags
saas, quicknode, blockchain, authentication, secrets

QuickNode Credential Boundary

Overview

Separate data-plane endpoint tokens from account-level API keys. An endpoint token authorizes chain RPC traffic; an API key authorizes QuickNode product and control-plane clients such as Admin API, Streams, the unified SDK, and qn.

Prerequisites

  • The client, chain, network, environment, and required QuickNode products
  • An approved secret manager and named rotation owner
  • A QuickNode account role permitted to create only the required credential

Instructions

Step 1: Inventory credential consumers

Use Read and Grep to locate endpoint URLs, x-token, x-api-key, QN_SDK__API_KEY, and QUICKNODE_* references. Record owners without printing values. Treat any token embedded in an RPC URL as secret material.

Step 2: Select the credential type

Use an endpoint authentication token for HTTP or WSS chain RPC. Prefer the x-token header for server-side clients when the chain endpoint supports it. Use a dashboard API key for Admin API, SDK, Streams, Webhooks, KV Store, or SQL Explorer access.

Step 3: Separate environments

Give development, staging, production, and independent applications separate endpoint tokens. Multi-token authentication permits revoking one consumer without rotating every workload. Do not reuse a human CLI session as a production service identity.

Step 4: Configure clients safely

Use Write or Edit to add secret references and documented variable names, never values. Configure the unified SDK with QN_SDK__API_KEY. Use Bash(qn:*) for qn auth login and qn auth whoami only in an approved interactive operator session.

Step 5: Verify the intended boundary

Use Bash(curl:*) for one read-only JSON-RPC probe with the token supplied by the runtime secret mechanism. Confirm the chain identifier and an expected denial after removing the credential; never echo the endpoint URL or request headers.

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Step 6: Record rotation

Document credential type, endpoint or API scope, consumers, storage reference, creation date, review date, and revoke-first rollback. Rotate with overlap: create, deploy, verify, then revoke the old token.

Tool Discipline

Use Read and Grep for discovery, Write and Edit for secret references, Bash(qn:) for authenticated CLI identity checks, and Bash(curl:) only for redacted read probes. Never place a live endpoint URL in source, logs, shell history, or support evidence.

Output

  • Credential-to-client matrix
  • Environment-separated secret references
  • Negative and positive verification results
  • Rotation and revocation record

Examples

A production RPC service receives a dedicated endpoint token through its secret manager. A deployment auditor uses a separate x-api-key identity through the SDK and cannot submit chain transactions.

Error Handling

FailureResponse
Endpoint returns unauthorizedVerify endpoint token placement without logging it
Admin API returns 401Verify the API key and account scope, not the RPC token
Token appears in a URL logRevoke it, sanitize retained logs, and replace it
Rotation breaks one consumerRestore the old secret reference during the overlap window

Resources

© jeremylongshore, MIT. Rendered from Markdown: HTML in the file is shown as text, images as links, and headings moved down two levels. Raw file

Files

SKILL.md and 1 other file (references) in skills/.curated/quicknode-install-auth of jeremylongshore/tons-of-skills-marketplace.

  • SKILL.md
  • references/official-docs.md

Open the folder on GitHubat commit 80f86df

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Questions about Quicknode Install Auth

What does Quicknode Install Auth do?

Choose and configure the correct QuickNode credential boundary for RPC endpoints, the Admin API, the unified SDK, and the qn CLI. Quicknode Install Auth is an agent skill from jeremylongshore/tons-of-skills-marketplace. Choose and configure the correct QuickNode credential boundary for RPC endpoints, the Admin API, the unified SDK, and the qn CLI.

When should I use Quicknode Install Auth?

Quicknode Install Auth fits situations like: onboarding an endpoint; separating environments; rotating access without exposing tokens; with: authenticate QuickNode.

How do I install Quicknode Install Auth in Claude Code?

Run `npx skills add jeremylongshore/tons-of-skills-marketplace --skill quicknode-install-auth -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (skills/.curated/quicknode-install-auth in jeremylongshore/tons-of-skills-marketplace) into .claude/skills/quicknode-install-auth in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.

How do I install Quicknode Install Auth in Codex?

Run `npx skills add jeremylongshore/tons-of-skills-marketplace --skill quicknode-install-auth -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (skills/.curated/quicknode-install-auth in jeremylongshore/tons-of-skills-marketplace) into .agents/skills/quicknode-install-auth in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.

Can I use Quicknode Install Auth in Cursor, Gemini CLI or GitHub Copilot?

Cursor, Gemini CLI, GitHub Copilot and OpenCode also load SKILL.md folders. With the skills CLI, run `npx skills add jeremylongshore/tons-of-skills-marketplace --skill quicknode-install-auth -a cursor` (or -a gemini-cli, github-copilot or opencode for the others). To copy it by hand, put the folder in .cursor/skills/quicknode-install-auth, .gemini/skills/quicknode-install-auth, .github/skills/quicknode-install-auth and .opencode/skills/quicknode-install-auth in your project.

What does Quicknode Install Auth need to run?

Going by SKILL.md and its folder, Quicknode Install Auth needs credentials named QN_SDK__API_KEY. Our summary lists: A credential in QN_SDK__API_KEY. Its frontmatter pre-approves these tools: Read, Grep, Write, Edit, Bash(qn:*), Bash(curl:*). Compatibility (from SKILL.md): Requires a QuickNode account; Admin API and advanced endpoint-security features depend on the account plan.

Does Quicknode Install Auth access the network?

SKILL.md names 1 domain. As links in the text: quicknode.com. This is read from the text; nothing was executed.

Is Quicknode Install Auth safe to install?

Our automated static check of SKILL.md found no risky patterns, such as piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files or hidden Unicode. It is not a guarantee. Review the folder before installing.

What licence does Quicknode Install Auth use?

Quicknode Install Auth is published under the MIT licence (declared in SKILL.md). It allows redistribution, so the full SKILL.md is shown on this page.

How many tokens does Quicknode Install Auth use?

About 1.1k tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 4.4k characters). Agents keep only the skill's name and description in context until a task matches; then they load SKILL.md in full. Its references folder adds about 168 tokens, read only when the agent opens those files.

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Who maintains Quicknode Install Auth?

jeremylongshore (a GitHub user) maintains it in jeremylongshore/tons-of-skills-marketplace, which has 2,825 GitHub stars. The repository holds 3,342 skills in this directory. The repository was last updated on October 9, 2026.

Source: jeremylongshore/tons-of-skills-marketplace on GitHub. Facts on this page come from the repository at the commit we read; the author's words are quoted as theirs.