AgentCipher Replaces .env Files and Secret Sprawl with an AI-Native Credential Vault
Secrets management designed for developers who use AI agents — so your agents get exactly the credentials they need, and nothing more.
Detroit, MI, February 23, 2026 — MegatronLabs, LLC today announces AgentCipher, a secrets and credential management tool built for the AI development era. While traditional secret managers were designed for human developers to fetch credentials at build time, AgentCipher is designed for AI agents that need scoped, audited, just-in-time access to credentials at runtime.
Developers building AI agents face a new security challenge: their agents need API keys, database URLs, and OAuth tokens to do their work — but giving an agent broad access to a .env file or a secret manager with no scoping creates serious risk. AgentCipher solves this with agent-scoped credential delivery: each agent gets a minimal, time-limited credential set matched to its declared task.
"Your AI agent doesn't need your AWS root credentials. It needs read access to one S3 bucket for the next 10 minutes. AgentCipher makes that the default, not the exception." — Jeff Blakely, Founder
Frequently Asked Questions
How is this different from 1Password, Vault, or AWS Secrets Manager?
Those tools were designed for human developers or service accounts. AgentCipher adds agent-identity scoping, task-based TTLs, and MCP-native credential delivery — so AI agents get credentials contextually rather than statically.
Where are secrets stored?
Locally by default (encrypted at rest, never leaves your machine). Optional cloud sync with end-to-end encryption.
Does it integrate with existing secret managers?
Yes — AgentCipher can act as a proxy in front of 1Password, AWS Secrets Manager, Doppler, and others.
What's the audit trail like?
Every credential access is logged with agent identity, timestamp, task context, and whether the request was within scope.
Is this related to KeyStash?
AgentCipher is the AI-native evolution of KeyStash, rebuilt for agentic workflows with full backwards compatibility.
About MegatronLabs
MegatronLabs, LLC is a technology intellectual property holdings company founded in 2018, dedicated to managing and maintaining comprehensive IP portfolios for its subsidiary LLCs. Based in Detroit, MI, MegatronLabs provides strategic oversight, legal protection, and operational excellence for technology intellectual property across AI, mobile applications, web platforms, hardware integration, cybersecurity, and data analytics. megatronlabs.com
About AgentQuanta
AgentQuanta is a MegatronLabs intellectual property — a unified suite of AI-native developer tools purpose-built for the agentic era. AgentQuanta gives solo developers and small teams the infrastructure backbone to build, ship, and operate production AI agents, with tools spanning secrets management, persistent memory, observability, multi-agent terminal workspaces, kanban project management, voice input, and retrieval. agentquanta.ai