Why Your AI Agent Shouldn't See Your API Keys
Stop putting API keys where AI agents can read them.
Your AI agent needs to call Slack, GitHub, Stripe — whatever APIs power your workflow. So you drop your API keys into a config file and move on. Th
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Tim Kulbaev
Founder at TMC AI. Building AI automation workflows and open-source MCP servers.
This is a critical topic as AI agents get more tool access. I build MCP-based automation tools and the credential isolation problem is something I think about constantly — especially when agents can chain tool calls autonomously. The approach of keeping secrets in a separate execution layer that the agent orchestrates but never directly reads feels like the right pattern. Does Aegis handle credential rotation as well, or is that out of scope?