# auth-guide

Configures third-party authentication for Notion Workers using brokered credentials, OAuth, or environment secrets. Needed when connecting a worker to APIs like GitHub or Stripe.

- skill · `type=skill` · Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, Gemini CLI, OpenCode · ★ 220
- Author: makenotion
- License: MIT · policy=mirror · the beginning of the file is at the end of this page
- Source: https://github.com/makenotion/notion-cookbook/tree/HEAD/workers/agents/skills/auth-guide/SKILL.md
- Updated: 2026-10-25
- HTML: https://affpapa.org/en/nevibecode/skills/auth-guide

## What it does

This skill guides agents through setting up external service authentication for Notion Workers integrating with GitHub, Stripe, or Slack. It strictly forbids pasting raw secrets into chat. Instead, the assistant checks provider documentation and instructs you to store required keys directly in `.env`.

The framework selects between three patterns. Brokered credentials via `worker.credential()` inject authorization headers at the network layer, keeping tokens entirely outside worker runtime. Plaintext environment secrets remain a fallback only when worker code must inspect the raw value, such as verifying webhook signatures. For full authorization redirects and automated refreshes, it configures `worker.oauth()`.

This guide does not handle Notion API tokens or the `ntn login` workflow. Applying these patterns requires the `ntn` CLI alongside the `@notionhq/workers` package.

## Requirements
- Works with: Notion

## Install

### Claude Code (native platform)

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add makenotion/notion-cookbook --skill auth-guide -a claude-code
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `~/.claude/skills/auth-guide/SKILL.md` — Copy the whole skill folder; for one project use .claude/skills/auth-guide/

### Codex

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add makenotion/notion-cookbook --skill auth-guide -a codex
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.agents/skills/auth-guide/SKILL.md` — For all projects use ~/.agents/skills/

### Cursor

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add makenotion/notion-cookbook --skill auth-guide -a cursor
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.cursor/skills/auth-guide/SKILL.md` — Cursor also reads .agents/skills/ and .claude/skills/

### GitHub Copilot

1. **GitHub CLI**
```bash
gh skill install makenotion/notion-cookbook auth-guide
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.github/skills/auth-guide/SKILL.md`

### Gemini CLI

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add makenotion/notion-cookbook --skill auth-guide -a gemini-cli
```

2. **Platform CLI**
```bash
gemini skills install https://github.com/makenotion/notion-cookbook --path workers/agents/skills/auth-guide
```

### Windsurf (Devin Desktop)

**Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.devin/skills/auth-guide/SKILL.md` — The legacy .windsurf/skills/ path still works

### OpenCode

**Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add makenotion/notion-cookbook --skill auth-guide -a opencode
```

### Claude.ai

**Claude.ai**
- Zip the folder and upload it in Settings → Capabilities → Skills

Where a file is given instead of a command, copy the files from the source to that path: https://github.com/makenotion/notion-cookbook/tree/HEAD/workers/agents/skills/auth-guide/SKILL.md

## When to use it
- configure brokered credentials using worker.credential()
- wire up provider OAuth redirect flows with worker.oauth()
- store webhook verification keys in .env and upload them with ntn workers env push
- determine the safest authentication method for an external API

## Example prompts
- Set up authentication for my Notion Worker to call GitHub API
- Configure Linear API access using worker.credential() without exposing the token in runtime
- Add an OAuth integration for an external service in my Notion Worker

## Source text · SKILL.md · MIT

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name: auth-guide
description: Guide to setting up third-party authentication for a Notion Worker. Covers brokered credentials for external-service API keys / personal access tokens, OAuth, and plaintext environment secrets only when worker code needs the value. Use when the worker needs credentials for a non-Notion API, not for Notion API tokens or `ntn login`.
user-invocable: false
---

## What this guide is for

This guide is for authentication against the **third-party service** your worker integrates with — the place data is coming from or going to (GitHub, Stripe, Salesforce, Google, Slack, etc.).

Use it when the worker needs credentials for a non-Notion API. Do not use it for Notion API tokens, `ntn login`, or general Notion workspace setup.

Never ask the user to send secret or environment-variable values in chat. For environment secrets, tell the user which variables are needed and have them enter the values directly in `.env` themselves. Do not open or print `.env` after they add them.

Most workers will use one of two auth patterns from the upstream service:

- personal API key / personal access token
- OAuth

For a personal API key / PAT, use a brokered credential unless worker code must read the plaintext value.

## Decision framework

Before recommending anything, check the provider's current developer docs. Confirm whether it offers:

- personal API keys / personal access tokens
- OAuth
- neither

Always research the provider's current auth docs on the web before advising the user. Do not rely on memory for auth availability, setup steps, or settings locations.

Then choose mechanically:

1. **Service offers personal API keys / PATs?** Recommend a brokered credential first when the credential is only used in outbound request headers to known domains. Otherwise, use the API key / PAT as an environment secret because worker code needs the plaintext value. It is usually the simplest fit for an individual-scoped worker.
2. **Service is OAuth-only?** Use OAuth.
3. **Both exist, but the worker should not depend on one person's credential or should be easy to re-auth if that person leaves?** Recommend OAuth.
4. **Service has neither?** See "When neither option is available" at the end of this guide.

State the recommendation in one sentence with the reason. Example: "Linear offers personal API keys, so use a brokered credential; it's the simplest fit and keeps the token out of the worker runtime."

## Setup: brokered credential

Pattern: declare where the credential may be injected with `worker.credential()`. The Workers service injects it into outbound request headers outside the worker runtime.

```ts
import { CREDENTIAL_VALUE } from "@notionhq/workers"

worker.credential("LINEAR_API_TOKEN", {
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