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Your AI agent's config files have secrets in the clear: a 22-rule scanner that finds them

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A Cursor agent deleted a production database in 9 seconds last April. Not a test database. Production. PocketOS, a SaaS platform serving car rental businesses, lost its live database and all volume-level backups in a single Railway API call. The agent had been assigned a routine staging task. It hi…

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  1. 2026-10-07 08:47 · DEV Community — AI
    Your AI agent's config files have secrets in the clear: a 22-rule scanner that finds them

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