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Your AI coding agent can read your SSH keys. I built a Neovim plugin that won't start it unprotected

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If your editor can launch a coding agent, that agent runs with your privileges: your ~/.ssh , your cloud credentials, your git history. One day I caught myself asking what exactly stops it from touching all that. The answer was "nothing", which wakes you up faster than coffee. So I wrote a plugin t…

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  1. 2026-10-30 11:13 · DEV Community — AI
    Your AI coding agent can read your SSH keys. I built a Neovim plugin that won't start it unprotected

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