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Show HN: Agent Vault – Open-source credential proxy and vault for agents
Agent Vault is an open-source credential proxy that addresses a critical security gap in AI agent deployments by preventing credentials from ever being exposed to agents—instead injecting them at the network layer. This fundamentally changes how organizations should architect agent security, eliminating prompt injection and exfiltration risks while maintaining audit trails of all API access. For IT leaders, this represents a necessary shift in secrets management strategy as AI agents become production systems, requiring new policies, deployment patterns, and monitoring approaches around agent-to-API authentication.
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Agent Vault is an open-source credential proxy that addresses a critical security gap in AI agent deployments by preventing credentials from ever being exposed to agents—instead injecting them at the network layer. This fundamentally changes how organizations should architect agent security, eliminating prompt injection and exfiltration risks while maintaining audit trails of all API access. For IT leaders, this represents a necessary shift in secrets management strategy as AI agents become production systems, requiring new policies, deployment patterns, and monitoring approaches around agent-to-API authentication.