MCP-warden local credential broker so AI agents never see your secrets
I got tired of pasting GitHub PATs, Stripe keys and DB passwords into Claude Code / Cursor MCP configs. One prompt injection or a leaked chat and they’re gone. So I built mcp-warden — a local-first credential broker for the Model Context Protocol. How it works: • You store the secret once in the OS keychain • You define scoped presets (e.g. github-read, stripe-charges) • The agent calls high-level tools (proxy_http, ssh_exec, db_query) • mcp-warden injects the credential server-side and returns
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2026-10-26 18:00:30.153Z
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Source account: I got tired of pasting GitHub PATs, Stripe keys and DB passwords into Claude Code / Cursor MCP configs. One prompt injection or a leaked chat and they’re gone. So I built mcp-warden — a local-first credential broker for the Model Context Protocol. How it works: • You store the secret once in the OS keychain • You define scoped presets (e.g. github-read, stripe-charges) • The agent calls high-level tools (proxy_http, ssh_exec, db_query) • mcp-warden injects the credential server-side and returns
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