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How AI Coding Tools Leak Your API Keys, And What I Built to Stop It

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Last week I watched Claude Code read my .env file, extract my OpenAI API key, and paste it into a curl command in a shell script it was writing for me. The key worked. The script worked. And my sk-proj- key was now sitting in a file on disk, in Claude's session history, and in Anthropic's API logs.…

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  1. 2026-10-16 04:38 · DEV Community — AI
    How AI Coding Tools Leak Your API Keys, And What I Built to Stop It

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