# Avoid API Keys

> Avoid using API keys in production AI systems. Use when reviewing authentication mechanisms, designing production deployments, or auditing credential management in AI and agentic systems.

## Facts
- Page: https://tashan.sh/capability/skill-redhatproductsecurity-avoid-api-keys
- tashan id: skill:RedHatProductSecurity/avoid-api-keys
- Source: https://github.com/RedHatProductSecurity/prodsec-skills
- Type: skill
- Category: security
- tashan score: not scored (catalogued only — too little public evidence)
- Adoption: 9.0
- Upkeep: not measured
- Freshness: not measured
- Evidence coverage: not measured
- Health: not measured
- Instruction depth: not yet graded
- Official: no

## Install

```sh
cp -r avoid-api-keys ~/.claude/skills/
```

## Security audit
Not scanned. We audit npm-published capabilities; this one has no npm package we can resolve, or has not reached the queue. This is not a clean bill of health.

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Measured 2026-08-05 by tashan (https://tashan.sh) from public evidence. Scorer s5.