Agent Vault

Eric Wimsatt looked at the AI agent boom and saw something nobody else was talking about: who's watching the keys? Every AI agent out there needs credentials to access APIs, databases, and services—but they're all just sitting there with the keys in the ignition. So Eric built Agent Vault, a zero-trust credential manager specifically for AI agents. Zero trust means no assumptions, no implicit permissions, every request verified. It's the security model the enterprise world has been screaming for, finally applied to the wild west of AI automation.

The pitch is simple: if you're deploying AI agents in production, they need access to sensitive stuff—API keys, tokens, database connections. And right now, most developers are just hardcoding credentials or storing them in environment variables like it's 2015. Agent Vault gives you proper credential management with the zero-trust framework: rotate keys automatically, audit every access, enforce least-privilege permissions. It's open source, it's on GitHub, and it's for anyone building AI agents that can't afford to get pwned. If you're running agents in production and you're not thinking about credential security, you will get burned.

Eric Wimsatt built Agent Vault solo and dropped it on GitHub. This is the kind of project that doesn't need VC funding to be useful—it just needs developers who are serious about security. The AI agent space is exploding, and credential management is the unsexy problem nobody wants to solve until it's too late.