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aws-secrets-manager

Secret safety for AWS Secrets Manager, secret management, credentials, API keys, tokens, and passwords. Prevents AI agents from directly fetching secret values and teaches runtime dynamic references with asm-exec so plaintext never enters the LLM context window.

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# Using Secrets Safely with Agents

## Overview

When AI agents handle secrets, credentials, API keys, tokens, or passwords with
shell or AWS API access, they can call `aws secretsmanager get-secret-value`
and receive plaintext values in their context window. This creates risk:
secrets may leak into logs, conversation history, or downstream tool calls.

This skill teaches a safer pattern: **dynamic references** resolved at runtime
by a wrapper script (`asm-exec`), so the agent never sees the secret value.

> **Best-effort defense, not a security boundary.** This prevents the most common
> leakage path but cannot stop all evasion vectors. Combine with IAM