# infisical-api

A skill that teaches your agent to call the Infisical REST API: secrets, projects, environments, machine identities. Useful when secrets get edited from code, not the dashboard.

- skill · `type=skill` · Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, Gemini CLI, OpenCode · 968 installs · ★ 35
- Author: Infisical
- License: MIT · policy=mirror · the beginning of the file is at the end of this page
- Source: https://github.com/Infisical/ai-skills/tree/HEAD/skills/infisical-api/SKILL.md
- Updated: 2026-10-19
- HTML: https://affpapa.org/en/nevibecode/skills/infisical-api

## What it does

This skill tells the agent how to talk to the Infisical REST API. It ships reference files for authentication, secret endpoints, projects and identities, pagination and rate limits. The agent gets ready `curl` examples: Universal Auth login, listing secrets, creating, reading, updating and deleting them.

One rule runs through the whole thing: authenticate with a machine identity first, then make other calls. Tokens expire after `expiresIn` seconds, so long-running work needs refresh logic. Secret operations go through `/api/v4/secrets` only — v1/v2/v3 are deprecated, and so is `/api/v1/workspace`. Region is picked by domain: `us.infisical.com` or `eu.infisical.com`, or your own host for self-hosted.

Worth knowing before you wire this into a script: `/api/v4/secrets` is not paginated. It ignores `offset` and `limit` and returns every secret at the requested path, so narrow the result with `secretPath`, `recursive`, `tagSlugs` or `metadataFilter`. Rate limits apply to self-hosted too, not just cloud — instance defaults are 60 reads/min, 200 writes/min, 60 secrets-ops/min and 60 auth/min per IP, and self-hosted admins can change them. On a 429 the skill says to read `retry-after` as seconds remaining, not a timestamp. For bulk edits, batch calls beat a per-secret loop.

## Install

### Claude Code (native platform)

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add Infisical/ai-skills --skill infisical-api -a claude-code
```

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

### Codex

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add Infisical/ai-skills --skill infisical-api -a codex
```

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

### Cursor

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add Infisical/ai-skills --skill infisical-api -a cursor
```

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

### GitHub Copilot

1. **GitHub CLI**
```bash
gh skill install Infisical/ai-skills infisical-api
```

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

### Gemini CLI

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add Infisical/ai-skills --skill infisical-api -a gemini-cli
```

2. **Platform CLI**
```bash
gemini skills install https://github.com/Infisical/ai-skills --path skills/infisical-api
```

### Windsurf (Devin Desktop)

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

### OpenCode

**Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add Infisical/ai-skills --skill infisical-api -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/Infisical/ai-skills/tree/HEAD/skills/infisical-api/SKILL.md

## When to use it
- get a Bearer token through Universal Auth without guessing the request shape
- create, update or delete a secret from a script instead of the dashboard
- pull every secret in a project, subfolders included
- figure out why the secrets list ignores offset and limit
- handle a 429 and read retry-after correctly

## Example prompts
- log in to Infisical with Universal Auth and show me the token
- create secret MY_SECRET in the dev environment of project PROJECT_ID
- list all secrets in the project recursively, subfolders included

## Source text · SKILL.md · MIT

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---
name: infisical-api
description: Interact with the Infisical REST API to manage secrets, projects, environments, machine identities, and more. Supports secret CRUD operations, machine identity authentication, pagination, and rate limiting on cloud deployments. Not for the CLI/SDKs (infisical-setup), KMS crypto endpoints (infisical-kms), certificate endpoints (infisical-pki), or human SSO login (infisical-sso).
triggers:
  - infisical API
  - REST endpoint
  - API authentication
  - bearer token
  - list secrets API
  - create secret API
  - get secret
  - update secret
  - delete secret
  - machine identity
  - universal auth
  - project endpoints
  - secret operations
---

# Infisical API Skill

This skill provides guidance for working with the Infisical REST API. Use it when you need to:
- Authenticate via machine identity Universal Auth
- List, get, create, update, or delete secrets
- Manage projects, environments, and members
- Work with machine identities and identity auth methods
- Handle pagination and understand rate limits
- Choose the correct API version and region

## Not this skill

| If the user wants... | Use |
|----------------------|-----|
| The CLI, an SDK, or a platform integration | `infisical-setup` |
| Terraform/HCL | `infisical-terraform` |
| **Human** login via SAML/OIDC/LDAP | `infisical-sso` |
| Roles, permissions, and approval policies | `infisical-access-control` |
| The KMS encrypt/decrypt/sign endpoints | `infisical-kms` |
| Certificate endpoints | `infisical-pki` |
| Secret sync / rotation / App Connection endpoints | the matching product skill |

This skill covers the core secrets, projects, and identities API. Product-specific endpoints are
documented in their own skills, where the surrounding concepts live.

## Guiding Principles

1. **Always authenticate via machine identity Universal Auth first** — use the Universal Auth login endpoint to obtain a Bearer token before making other API calls
2. **Use /api/v4/secrets for secret operations** — v1/v2/v3 secret endpoints are deprecated
3. **Use /api/v1/projects, not /api/v1/workspace** — workspace endpoints are deprecated
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