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anoncowtoday at 9:08 AM1 replyview on HN

What is your recommended alternative to .env files?


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jumploopstoday at 9:35 AM

In the context of traditional SaaS, using dynamic secrets loaded at runtime (KMS+Dynamo, etc.).

For agentic tools and pure agents, a proxy is the safest approach. The agent can even think it has a real API key, but said key is worthless outside of the proxy setting.

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