# How to build an encrypted secrets vault for agents

DevFeed: [How to build an encrypted secrets vault for agents](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/how-to-build-an-encrypted-secrets-vault-for-agents-5964.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://turso.tech/blog/how-to-build-an-encrypted-secrets-vault-for-agents>)

Author: Glauber Costa

Published: 2026-06-18T00:00:00Z

Content type: tutorial

Language: en

Sources: [Turso Blog](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/turso-blog.md>)

Topics: [AI Bots](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/ai-bots.md>)

Tags: [agents](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/agents.md>), [api-keys](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/api-keys.md>), [architecture](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/architecture.md>), [database](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/database.md>), [how-to](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/how-to.md>), [local](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/local.md>), [secrets](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/secrets.md>), [turso](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/turso.md>)

## AI overview

A tutorial on building a local encrypted secrets vault that lets coding agents use credentials without seeing their values. It uses a Turso database and a narrow audited interface that injects secrets into child-process environment variables and scrubs them from output.

## Source excerpt

Your coding agent needs your API keys but should never see them. Here's how a single encrypted Turso database makes a local secrets vault almost trivial to build.