Why Your AI Coding Agent Should Never See Your .env Your AI agent uses your API keys. It NEVER sees them. Not in context. Not in logs. Not in chat. Not even if it tries. You just gave your AI coding assistant a .env file with OPENAI_API_KEY=sk-... , GITHUB_TOKEN=ghp_... , maybe an AWS_SECRET . You trust it to use those keys. But here's the uncomfortable question nobody asks: Where does that key actually go? The Problem (That Nobody Talks About) Ve...