Show HN: Let agent read files with secrets while redacting values for LLM contex
Coding agents read environment variables, .env files, configuration, and command output that may contain credentials. ContextVeil locally replaces the secret values you’ve chosen before supported text reaches the LLM — without blocking the workflow. GITHUB_TOKEN=ghp_secret_example -> GITHUB_TOKEN=<SECRET:GITHUB_TOKEN> The command still runs.
- ▪Coding agents read environment variables, .env files, configuration, and command output that may contain credentials.
- ▪ContextVeil locally replaces the secret values you’ve chosen before supported text reaches the LLM — without blocking the workflow.
- ▪GITHUB_TOKEN=ghp_secret_example -> GITHUB_TOKEN=<SECRET:GITHUB_TOKEN> The command still runs.
Hacker News (AI / LLM) files mainly under ai. We currently carry 4,996 of its stories.
Story provenance
Source · retrieval · rights · ranking — open for full record
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Story provenance
Attribution is not the same as permission. This drawer separates discovery metadata, excerpts, WeSearch-generated summaries, reuse status, and whether the publisher receives the visit. Nothing here claims a legal grant the publisher has not made.
Record
| Original publisher | GitHub |
| Canonical URL | https://github.com/daniel-sc/contextveil |
| Publication time | Tue, 15 Sep 2026 14:24:36 +0000 |
| Retrieval time | 2026-09-15T14:36:52.557Z |
| Last seen | 2026-09-15T14:36:52.557Z |
| Headline source | Publisher (no WeSearch rewrite) |
| Excerpt source | publisher body |
| Excerpt method | First ~120 words (~800 chars) of extracted publisher body, fair-use limited. |
| Summary | WeSearch · cerebras-chat (WeSearch summarizer) |
| Summary source text | contentText |
| Citation coverage | Summary is a WeSearch-generated derivative; primary citation is the original publisher URL. |
| Cluster | mBUh3s3-2ZFu · 1 stories |
| Cluster logic | Grouped by semantic title/content similarity across sources within a rolling window. Same-publisher template collisions are excluded from coverage comparison. |
| Ranking reason | Story pages are not engagement-ranked. Hub feeds use recency, with optional source-diversified chronological ordering (cap consecutive stories per source). No personalized ranking. |
| Publisher visit | Yes — open original |
| Substitutes article? | No — link-out required for full text |
Rights status (four layers)
WeSearch handling by dimension
| Indexing | May the item be indexed (stored, ranked, made findable)? | Allowed |
| Snippet | May a short excerpt of the publisher's text be shown? | Allowed |
| AI summary | May WeSearch generate its own short summary of the article? | Limited |
| Retrieval / RAG | May the content be exposed for third-party retrieval-augmented generation? | Not asserted |
| Model training | May the content be used to train AI models? | Not asserted |
| Commercial reuse | May the content be reused commercially? | Not permitted |
Basis: Derived from the published RSS/Atom feed. Contact: [email protected]. Reviewed: 2026-07-24.
Opening excerpt (first ~120 words) tap to expand
ContextVeil — The tool can read it. The LLM doesn’t need it. Coding agents read environment variables, .env files, configuration, and command output that may contain credentials. ContextVeil locally replaces the secret values you’ve chosen before supported text reaches the LLM — without blocking the workflow. GITHUB_TOKEN=ghp_secret_example -> GITHUB_TOKEN=<SECRET:GITHUB_TOKEN> The command still runs. The file still gets read. Only enrolled exact values are replaced; the rest of the output stays intact. A guided setup helps you choose what to protect. Runtime matching is exact and deterministic. Keep working. No magic.
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Excerpt limited to ~120 words for fair-use compliance. The full article is at GitHub.