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Your .mcp.json probably has a live API key in it

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Nearly every guide to setting up an MCP server tells you to do this: { "mcpServers" : { "stripe" : { "command" : "npx" , "args" : [ "-y" , "@stripe/mcp@latest" ], "env" : { "STRIPE_SECRET_KEY" : "sk_live_51J..." } } } } That is a live production key sitting in a file that gets committed to reposito…

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    Your .mcp.json probably has a live API key in it

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