gopass Skill

gopass is a CLI password manager for teams, built on GPG and Git.

Prerequisites

• gopass binary installed
• GPG key available (gopass uses GPG for encryption)
• Store initialized (gopass init or gopass setup)

Common Operations

List secrets

gopass ls
gopass ls -f          # flat list

Show a secret

gopass show path/to/secret           # full entry (password + metadata)
gopass show -o path/to/secret        # password only
gopass show -c path/to/secret        # copy to clipboard
gopass show path/to/secret key       # show specific field

Create / Update

gopass insert path/to/secret         # interactive
gopass edit path/to/secret           # open in $EDITOR
echo "mypassword" | gopass insert -f path/to/secret   # non-interactive

Add key-value metadata below the first line (password):

mysecretpassword
username: erdGecrawl
url: https://github.com
notes: Created 2026-01-31

Generate passwords

gopass generate path/to/secret 24           # 24-char password
gopass generate -s path/to/secret 32        # with symbols
gopass generate --xkcd path/to/secret 4     # passphrase (4 words)

Delete

gopass rm path/to/secret
gopass rm -r path/to/folder          # recursive

Move / Copy

gopass mv old/path new/path
gopass cp source/path dest/path

Search

gopass find github                   # search entry names
gopass grep "username"               # search entry contents

Store Management

Initialize

gopass setup                         # guided first-time setup
gopass init \x3Cgpg-id>                 # init with specific GPG key

Mount sub-stores

gopass mounts add work /path/to/work-store
gopass mounts remove work
gopass mounts                        # list mounts

Sync (git push/pull)

gopass sync

Recipients (team access)

gopass recipients                    # list
gopass recipients add \x3Cgpg-id>
gopass recipients remove \x3Cgpg-id>

TOTP

gopass otp path/to/secret            # show current TOTP code

Store TOTP URI as totp: otpauth://totp/... in the entry body.

Non-interactive Tips

• Use echo "pw" | gopass insert -f path for scripted inserts
• Use gopass show -o path for machine-readable password-only output
• Use gopass show -f path to suppress warnings
• Set GOPASS_NO_NOTIFY=true to suppress desktop notifications
• Use gopass --yes to auto-confirm prompts