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Show HN: Declarative secrets management for agents and dev teams

Propagate CLI is an open-source tool for declarative secrets management, designed for AI agents and development teams to securely handle credentials, API keys, and environment variables.

Background

- This open-source CLI tool ("propagate") aims to solve the problem of sharing secrets (API keys, passwords, tokens) across AI agents and developer teams securely and declaratively — meaning you define *what* you want the secret state to be, and the tool figures out the steps to make it so. - The project is hosted on GitHub as a Show HN post (Hacker News), a common venue for launching new developer tools to the tech community. - "Declarative" configuration is a core principle in DevOps tools like Terraform or Kubernetes, where you write a config file describing the desired end state and the system applies it automatically — this tool brings that same approach to secret management. - No particular prior project or company is referenced; this appears to be a small/new utility targeting teams that use AI coding agents (e.g., GitHub Copilot, Cursor) and need a lightweight way to sync environment variables without hardcoding them in prompts or sharing them via insecure methods.

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