My agents are building a secure fork of OpenClaw
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Show HN: SEKSBot – AI agents that can't see your secretsSEKSBot is a fork of OpenClaw where agents have zero access to API keys, tokens, or credentials — ever.The core insight is borrowed from SQL prepared statements: separate the instructions from the sensitive data. Agents write requests using named secret references. A broker intercepts and injects the real credentials at execution time. The agent never sees them.How it works:seksh (our nushell fork) has secure built-in commands (seksh-http, seksh-git) that route through the broker. Agents can make authenticated API calls and git operations without the keys ever entering shell memory.seks-broker stores secrets and acts as a proxy. It can inject bearer tokens, API keys, and even handle asymmetric key signing — all without exposing anything to the agent process.Three layers of defense: (1) Agents never have secrets in env vars or memory. (2) The broker validates and scopes every request. (3) Skills use sandboxing on top of broker-mediated access.The problem we kept seeing: every AI agent framework puts API keys in environment variables. One prompt injection, one malicious webpage, one bad skill — and your keys are exfiltrated. We decided the only real fix is making it physically impossible for the agent to access them.
HN · launched Feb 13, 2026 · 9 upvotes (top 51%) · 0 views
Niche: ai agent security and monitoring tools · 297 launches, 14 in the last 7 days ▼ -44% · Explore this niche →
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- Horizontal
- Agent / copilot
- Developer
- AI-native
- Hobby / open-source project
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Yes It is an agent orchestration proxy fork that parameterizes agent requests and injects API credentials server-side via templated parameters before forwarding to upstream APIs.
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Launched 104 days after the earliest competitor.
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