Let Claude Code read your .env, but not your API keys
This story is from 2026-10-04. It is preserved in the archive; the latest stories are on the live feed.
Claude Code is great at exploring a project. It opens files, follows imports and reads configuration to understand how everything fits together. The problem: one of those files is often .env , and once a secret is in the conversation, it has left your machine. This is not a theoretical risk. In Jan…
Read the full story at DEV Community — AI ↗
Timeline · 1 report
- 2026-10-04 17:16 · DEV Community — AI
Let Claude Code read your .env, but not your API keys