Practical security insights and product updates from the team building safer, simpler key management for modern APIs.
Rotation assumes keys are valid until scheduled. Expiration assumes they're dangerous from day one. One of those assumptions matches how attackers actually behave.
If your AI agent traces include tool-call HTTP bodies - and they do by default in LangChain, LlamaIndex, and most OpenTelemetry setups - every API key your agent touched is sitting in your observability stack.
A ClawHub skill runs with the same permissions as your OpenClaw agent, no sandbox, no isolation. Here's what you should check before installing any third-party skill.
AWS Secrets Manager is $0.40/secret/month with API call fees that add up fast. Here's the real cost breakdown for 2026 and when a dedicated secrets vault saves you money and headaches.