[daily secrets] Daily Secrets Analysis Report

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🔐 Daily Secrets Analysis Report

Date: 2026-10-03
Workflow Files Analyzed: 318
Run: https://github.com/github/gh-aw/actions/runs/37144259491

📊 Executive Summary

• Total Secret References: 10659 (secrets.*)
• GitHub Token References: 2021 (github.token)
• Unique Secret Types: 43 (includes one empty match from dynamic/templated patterns)

🛡️ Security Posture

✅ Redaction System: 318/318 workflows have redaction steps
✅ Token Cascades: 1059 fallback chain instances
✅ Permission Blocks: 318 explicit permission definitions
✅ Template injection check (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 dominance: GitHub tokens (GITHUB_TOKEN, GH_AW_GITHUB_TOKEN, GH_AW_GITHUB_MCP_SERVER_TOKEN) account for most references.
3. Telemetry secrets (Sentry/Grafana OTEL) are widely referenced (~1,700 combined) – worth monitoring as a growing surface.

💡 Recommendations

1. Keep the CI tests for event interpolation and secrets-in-outputs mandatory.
2. Periodically review OTEL secrets' scoping, since they appear across many workflows.

🔑 Top 10 Secrets by Usage

Rank	Secret Name	Occurrences
1	GITHUB_TOKEN	5603
2	GH_AW_GITHUB_TOKEN	4764
3	GH_AW_GITHUB_MCP_SERVER_TOKEN	2038
4	GH_AW_OTEL_SENTRY_AUTHORIZATION	744
5	COPILOT_GITHUB_TOKEN	575
6	GH_AW_OTEL_SENTRY_ENDPOINT	497
7	GH_AW_OTEL_GRAFANA_AUTHORIZATION	495
8	(unnamed/templated match)	358
9	OPENAI_API_KEY	290
10	CODEX_API_KEY	289

(Counts are raw match counts.)

📈 Trends

No previous-day data was available; baseline recorded.

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• expires on Oct 6, 2026, 10:33 AM UTC-08:00

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