env

A command that adds saved secrets from your operating-system keychain to a program's environment while it runs. Everything after `--` is passed to that program.

In plain words
What is it for?
Running local development, test, migration, server, worker, and build commands with keychain secrets available as environment variables.
Why use it?
It lets development commands use secrets without putting them directly in command lines or project files. A Makefile can apply the same setup to commands such as starting, testing, migrating, or building.

Command

Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

agentmods
npx agentmods add commands/the-17/agentsecrets/env
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/The-17/agentsecrets
Per session 0 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 2,226 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5 $0.00000 $0.02226
Opus 5 $0.00000 $0.01113
Sonnet 5 $0.00000 $0.00445
Haiku 4.5 $0.00000 $0.00223

Measured 2d ago against content hash 244dde63b018, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

env scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 2d ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

docs/commands/env.md · 324 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 324 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

agentsecrets env

Inject secrets from the OS keychain as environment variables into a child process.

Usage

agentsecrets env -- <command> [args...]

The -- separator is required. Everything after it is passed verbatim as the command and its arguments.


Makefile Integration

The lowest-friction way to use agentsecrets env in a project is to define a RUN variable at the top of your Makefile and prefix commands with it. This way you type make dev and not agentsecrets env -- npm run dev.

Pattern 1: RUN prefix variable (recommended)

Define once, use everywhere:

RUN := agentsecrets env --

dev:
	$(RUN) npm run dev

test:
	$(RUN) npm test

migrate:
	$(RUN) python manage.py migrate

server:
	$(RUN) python manage.py runserver

worker:
	$(RUN) celery -A myapp worker --loglevel=info

build:
	$(RUN) go build ./...

Now make dev runs with secrets injected. The RUN variable acts as a transparent prefix.

Bonus: You can override RUN from the shell to strip injection entirely (useful for debugging without the keychain):

make dev RUN=           # runs: npm run dev (no injection)
make dev               # runs: agentsecrets env -- npm run dev

Pattern 2: Named targets (explicit)

If you prefer each target to be completely self-contained:

dev:
	agentsecrets env -- npm run dev

test:
	agentsecrets env -- pytest

migrate:
	agentsecrets env -- python manage.py migrate

shell:
	agentsecrets env -- python manage.py shell

Django project example (full Makefile)

RUN := agentsecrets env --

.PHONY: dev test migrate shell celery

dev:
	$(RUN) python manage.py runserver

test:
	$(RUN) python manage.py test

migrate:
	$(RUN) python manage.py migrate

shell:
	$(RUN) python manage.py shell

celery:
	$(RUN) celery -A myapp worker --loglevel=info

# Run without injection (for debugging env setup)
dev-raw:
	python manage.py runserver

Read the full file on GitHub · 324 lines

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 2d ago First seen · 324 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A 244dde63b018

Subscribe to this mod's changes

env is a command published in the GitHub repository The-17/agentsecrets (172 stars, last pushed 4d ago), licensed MIT. It costs nothing until one of its globs matches a file; then it loads 2,226 tokens. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.