[daily secrets] Daily Secrets Analysis Report

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🔐 Daily Secrets Analysis Report

Date: 2026-09-29
Workflow Files Analyzed: 299
Run: https://github.com/github/gh-aw/actions/runs/36606828002

📊 Executive Summary

• Total Secret References: 10,305 (secrets.*)
• GitHub Token References: 1,930 (github.token)
• Unique Secret Types: 43 (the count includes one empty-name match from a secrets. pattern such as a prose or wildcard mention)
• Job-level vs step-level split: not computed (the grep heuristic is unreliable at this file volume)

🛡️ Security Posture

✅ Redaction System: 299/299 workflows have redaction steps
✅ Token Cascades: 1,015 fallback chain instances
✅ Permission Blocks: 299 explicit permission definitions
✅ Template injection: TestCompiledLockFiles_NoGitHubEventExpressionsInRunScripts passed
✅ Secrets in job outputs: TestCompiledLockFiles_NoSecretsInOutputs passed

🎯 Key Findings

1. Full coverage: every lock file has redaction and an explicit permissions block.
2. Token usage: GITHUB_TOKEN (5,343) and GH_AW_GITHUB_TOKEN (4,559) dominate.
3. Telemetry secrets: the Sentry and Grafana OTEL secrets appear in roughly 500–750 references each.
4. Baseline: no previous stats were available, so no trend comparison was made.

💡 Recommendations

1. Persist daily stats (for example in cache-memory) to enable trend comparison.
2. Replace the job-level/step-level grep heuristic with YAML-based parsing.
3. Filter out the empty-name match from the unique secret count.

🔑 Top 10 Secrets by Usage

Rank	Secret Name	Occurrences
1	GITHUB_TOKEN	5343
2	GH_AW_GITHUB_TOKEN	4559
3	GH_AW_GITHUB_MCP_SERVER_TOKEN	1946
4	GH_AW_OTEL_SENTRY_AUTHORIZATION	744
5	COPILOT_GITHUB_TOKEN	520
6	GH_AW_OTEL_SENTRY_ENDPOINT	497
7	GH_AW_OTEL_GRAFANA_AUTHORIZATION	495
8	OPENAI_API_KEY	398
9	CODEX_API_KEY	397

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Generated: 2026-09-29 17:50 UTC

Generated by 🔒 Daily Secrets Analysis Agent · copilot · auto · 11.8 AIC · ⌖ 9.54 AIC · ⊞ 9.1K · ◷

• expires on Oct 2, 2026, 9:58 AM UTC-08:00