Name: create-secret
Rating: 76.8 (1 reviews)
Author: harness

create-secret

Generate Harness Secret definitions and manage secrets via MCP v2 tools. Supports SecretText, SecretFile, SSHKey, and WinRmCredentials types with configurable secret managers (Harness built-in, HashiCorp Vault, AWS Secrets Manager, Azure Key Vault, GCP Secret Manager). Use when asked to create a secret, store credentials, manage API keys, set up SSH keys, configure WinRM credentials, rotate secrets, or reference secrets in pipelines. Trigger phrases: create secret, secret text, secret file, SSH key, API key, password, credentials, secret manager, store secret.

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Quality

64%

Does it follow best practices?

Impact

96%

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Average score across 3 eval scenarios

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Evaluation results

98%

CI/CD Secret Provisioning for a New Microservice

Secret provisioning workflow with built-in manager

Criteria

Without context

With context

Check before create

40%

100%

Create tool call

70%

100%

Verify after create

80%

100%

SecretText type

100%

Harness built-in SM identifier

100%

90%

valueType Inline

100%

87%

API key naming convention

100%

Password naming convention

100%

Token naming convention

100%

Project scope parameters

100%

No actual secret values

100%

11%

Integrating HashiCorp Vault Secrets into Harness Pipelines

Vault-backed secret reference with #key and org scope

Criteria

Without context

With context

valueType Reference

100%

External SM identifier

100%

Vault path with #key suffix

100%

Correct #key per secret

100%

Org-level scope in YAML

100%

Password naming convention

62%

100%

Org prefix in pipeline reference

100%

Service variable type Secret

100%

Connector tokenRef format

20%

100%

No actual values

100%

92%

Multi-Platform Deployment Credential Setup

SSH KeyReference and WinRM NTLM credential definitions

Criteria

Without context

With context

SSHKey type

100%

KeyReference credentialType

100%

KeyReference fields

100%

SSH naming convention

100%

WinRmCredentials type

100%

NTLM auth type

100%

WinRM port and SSL

100%

Project scope parameters

100%

Project reference expression

100%

No actual credentials

100%

PEM format note

100%

Repository: harness/harness-ai
Commit: a000afa

Evaluated: 1 day ago
Agent: Claude Code
Model: Claude Sonnet 4.6

Table of Contents

CI/CD Secret Provisioning for a New Microservice Integrating HashiCorp Vault Secrets into Harness Pipelines Multi-Platform Deployment Credential Setup

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