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AI Assistant Secret Exposure Habit Checklist

Devs using AI tools leak credentials at ~2x the rate. Check your habits.

Developers using AI coding tools expose cloud credentials and API keys at nearly twice the rate of developers who don't, and this gap traces to specific, checkable habits rather than a single cause: pasting unscanned code into a chat window, giving an IDE-integrated agent full-repo context that happens to include a .env file, or handing an automation tool a full-access key instead of a scoped one. This checklist scores your team's actual practice against 10 weighted checks covering the concrete points where a secret is most likely to leave a codebase through an AI tool.

→Covers chat-paste scanning, .env exclusion from agent context, and chat-history retention policy
→Scores IDE agent file-scope and browser agent clipboard/autofill access separately
→Includes immediate-rotation and echoed-credential checks specific to AI tool workflows
→Grounded in the measured ~2x credential-exposure rate for AI-tool users vs. non-users
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