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Task Prompt to Migrate AI Agents Off Shared API Keys to Credentialed Mandates

This **Arc** task prompt runs a shared-secret amnesty across your agent estate, because an API key or bearer token proves possession of a string, not identity, and whoever copies it becomes the agent. Arc, the deepidv credential gateway, builds a **credential inventory** of every key, token, OAuth grant, and workload identity an agent uses, marking shared keys as critical findings, ranks each by **blast radius** (funds movement, data exfiltration, downstream agent calls at machine speed), maps **principal binding** to show which agents trace to a liveness-verified human and which act under unattributable authority, and returns a **mandate migration plan** moving each agent to its own credential with scoped, time-boxed, revocable mandates plus **escalation tiers** for the amounts, counterparties, and data classes that require human approval. Built for platform and security leads whose agents currently authenticate with infrastructure designed for server-to-server plumbing.

How to use this prompt

1
Open Arc in the deepidv dashboard and paste the full prompt, or run it in Claude, ChatGPT, or Gemini to draft the migration plan before wiring it to live credentials.
2
Replace the INPUT section with your agent inventory, the credentials each uses, and your current issuance and revocation handling.
3
Run the prompt and triage the blast-radius ranking first, putting shared keys and unattributable agents with money or data access at the top of the queue.
4
Hand the mandate migration plan to platform engineering and the escalation tiers to security, with an owner and date per credential.
5
Re-run after each migration wave so the inventory shrinks visibly and no new shared secret creeps back in.

The prompt

Arc, run a shared-secret amnesty across our agent estate: find every credential our AI agents authenticate with, then plan the migration to credentialed mandates.

Produce:
1. Credential inventory: every API key, bearer token, OAuth grant, and workload identity used by an agent, with the owning team, the systems it reaches, last rotation date, and whether more than one agent shares it. Shared keys are critical findings by default.
2. Blast radius ranking: for each credential, what a silent copy could do at machine speed: funds movement, data exfiltration, downstream agent calls, with the worst plausible hour quantified.
3. Principal binding map: which agents trace to a liveness-verified human principal today, and which act under authority no one can attribute. Unattributable agents with money or PII access go to the top of the queue.
4. Mandate migration plan: per agent, the target state: its own credential, scoped time-boxed mandates issued per action class, expiry aggressive enough that a leaked token is measured in minutes, and revocation that works on the first try.
5. Escalation tiers: the amounts, counterparties, and data classes that require human approval per HAPS-style checkpoints, wired into the mandate schema rather than documentation.

Deliver as a 90-day migration register with owners and dates, plus the delegation-evidence schema each future action will write.

Test it in Claude or another LLM

This prompt is built for Arc inside deepidv, where Arc ingests live agent credentials and issues mandates. You can dry-run the migration plan in any general LLM first with a synthetic credential inventory before touching production secrets.

1
Paste the full prompt into Claude, ChatGPT, or Gemini, replacing the opening 'Arc,' with a role instruction such as 'Act as an agent-identity architect planning a migration off shared secrets.' Keep the OUTPUT sections as written.
2
Under the INPUT section, paste the synthetic sample block below so the model has credentials and agents to inventory.
3
Add one framing line: 'This is synthetic test data. Treat any credential shared by more than one agent as a critical finding.'
4
Check the output shape: a credential inventory, a blast-radius ranking, a principal-binding map, a mandate migration plan, and escalation tiers. If a plan assumes a binding the input does not describe, tighten the framing and re-run.
5
Once the shape is right, run it live in the deepidv dashboard where Arc maps the real credentials and issues scoped mandates.

Synthetic sample data to paste alongside the prompt

Fake test data, safe to share with any LLM. Swap in your own once the output looks right.

AGENTS AND CREDENTIALS (synthetic, fake):
- checkout-agent: API key SHARED with refund-agent, reaches payments API, last rotated 14 months ago
- support-bot: OAuth grant, reaches customer PII store, no human principal on record
- treasury-agent: workload identity, moves funds, principal = verified CFO
CURRENT HANDLING (fake): revocation is manual and often fails on first attempt
OPEN ITEM (fake): no mandate expiry set on any agent today

Pairs with on deepidv

Sources & further reading

FAQ

Why are shared API keys a problem for AI agents?

A key or bearer token proves possession of a string, not identity, so whoever copies it becomes the agent invisibly. At agent speed and scale, one leaked shared key can drive thousands of unauthorized actions with no record of which human, if any, is accountable.

What does this prompt produce for my agent estate?

A full credential inventory with shared keys flagged critical, a blast-radius ranking, a principal-binding map of which agents trace to a verified human, a per-agent mandate migration plan, and escalation tiers, delivered as a 90-day register with owners and dates.

What is a credentialed mandate?

Instead of standing API access, the agent requests a signed, scoped, time-boxed authorization issued from the principal's side for a specific action or class of actions, revocable on the first try, with keys kept at the principal's edge so compromising the agent does not transfer authority.

Run it with live verification data

These prompts work in any LLM. Inside the deepidv dashboard, Luna, Arbiter, and Arc run them against your real sessions, screening lists, and audit trails.

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