Sops Encryption

What it does

When your agent uses it

• Tasks that involve Operations and SOPs

Example prompts

• “/sops-encryption”

Requirements

• Compatibility (from SKILL.md): Requires the relevant security tooling (scanners, vault CLIs) and an authorized scope for any active assessment. Docs-only; helper scripts and templates not bundled.

What it can do on your machine

Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit 1e53ce2. It shows what the files ask for, not the result of running them.

• Tool permissions

  Pre-approves nothing: there is no allowed-tools line, so your agent's usual permission prompts apply.

  From allowed-tools in the SKILL.md frontmatter.

• Runs code

  Shell commands in SKILL.md call:

  • brew
  • wget

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

• Network

  Hosts in commands or code, which the agent is likely to contact:

  • github.com

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

• Credentials

  Names no API keys, tokens, secrets or passwords.

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

• Compatibility

  Requires the relevant security tooling (scanners, vault CLIs) and an authorized scope for any active assessment. Docs-only; helper scripts and templates not bundled.

  From compatibility in the SKILL.md frontmatter.

Context cost

Sops Encryption loads about 751 tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 15 tokens; SKILL.md has 132 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it

~15

When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches

~751

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

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 sickn33/agentic-awesome-skills at commit 1e53ce2, republished under its MIT licence (© sickn33). 132 words, ~751 tokens.

name

sops-encryption

description

Encrypt files and configs with Mozilla SOPS.

compatibility

Requires the relevant security tooling (scanners, vault CLIs) and an authorized scope for any active assessment. Docs-only; helper scripts and templates not bundled.

category

security

risk

critical

source

https://github.com/BagelHole/DevOps-Security-Agent-Skills

source_repo

BagelHole/DevOps-Security-Agent-Skills

source_type

community

date_added

2026-09-20

license

MIT

license_source

https://github.com/BagelHole/DevOps-Security-Agent-Skills/blob/main/LICENSE

metadata.author

devops-skills

metadata.version

1.0

# macOS
brew install sops

# Linux
wget https://github.com/getsops/sops/releases/download/v3.8.0/sops-v3.8.0.linux.amd64
chmod +x sops-v3.8.0.linux.amd64
mv sops-v3.8.0.linux.amd64 /usr/local/bin/sops

# Encrypt with AWS KMS
sops --encrypt --kms arn:aws:kms:region:account:key/key-id secrets.yaml > secrets.enc.yaml

# Decrypt
sops --decrypt secrets.enc.yaml

# Edit encrypted file
sops secrets.enc.yaml

# Encrypt in place
sops --encrypt --in-place secrets.yaml

# .sops.yaml
creation_rules:
  - path_regex: .*\.prod\.yaml$
    kms: arn:aws:kms:us-east-1:account:key/prod-key
  - path_regex: .*\.dev\.yaml$
    kms: arn:aws:kms:us-east-1:account:key/dev-key
  - path_regex: .*
    pgp: fingerprint

# encrypted secret
apiVersion: v1
kind: Secret
metadata:
  name: myapp-secrets
type: Opaque
stringData:
  password: ENC[AES256_GCM,data:encrypted...]
sops:
  kms:
    - arn: arn:aws:kms:region:account:key/key-id

# With ArgoCD
# Install ksops plugin for ArgoCD to decrypt secrets

# Read-only first: inventory before any active step.
which <tool> && <tool> --help | head -n 20

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Files

Just SKILL.md in skills/sops-encryption of sickn33/agentic-awesome-skills.

Open the folder on GitHubat commit 1e53ce2

Used in 1 other repository

We found 5 copies of this SKILL.md (exact, near-identical or edited) in other folders, from 1 other GitHub owner. This page covers the copy in sickn33/agentic-awesome-skills, which our catalogue first saw on October 7, 2026.

• lingxling/awesome-skills-cnantigravity-awesome-skills/skills/sops-encryptionantigravity-awesome-skills/plugins/agentic-awesome-skills/skills/sops-encryption+1 more