Don’t let A.I. read your .env files
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AI coding assistants can inadvertently read sensitive credentials from .env files, creating security risks. Instead of storing secrets in plain text, use 1Password CLI to store references in .env files (like op://vault/item/field) and inject actual values at runtime with the op run command. This keeps secrets out of AI context
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