Filip Hric 12/11/2025

Don’t let A.I. read your .env files

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This article discusses the security risk of AI coding assistants like Claude Code and GitHub Copilot reading .env files containing secrets. It explains how to configure these tools to deny access to sensitive files and presents a method to replace plain-text secrets in .env files with 1Password CLI references, keeping credentials safe in memory and away from AI models.

Don’t let A.I. read your .env files

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