Ask HN: How do you provide your AI agents with access to credentials/secrets?

Re:Ask HN: How do you provide your AI agents with access to ... by onion2k on Wednesday July 01, 2026 @06:11AM (#48744549)

I don't. I write a lightweight API proxy, usually as a CLI app, that takes requests from the agent, adds secrets and makes the request, and then passes the response transparently to the agent. The agent can use APIs without ever seeing secrets or tokens.

This approach doesn't scale and won't work in the cloud without a lot more effort, but that's not been a problem for me yet.

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Re:Ask HN: How do you provide your AI agents with access to ... by pietz on Wednesday July 01, 2026 @07:34AM (#48745111)

is this something you built yourself or do you use a tool that was specifically created for this? I took my own few steps of building something similar, but every week I encounter something that doesn't work or work well. I've reached the point where I want to consider using something, that someone smarter than me came up with.

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