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Your coding agent can read .env. Here's where the API keys should live instead.

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I gave Claude Code shell access to a side project last spring and watched it debug a failing OpenAI call the way any of us would: it ran cat .env . The key was now in the conversation, in the provider's logs, and in the editor's session history on disk. Nothing malicious happened. That is exactly t…

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  1. 2026-10-24 03:00 · DEV Community — AI
    Your coding agent can read .env. Here's where the API keys should live instead.

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