Add help note about suppressing output when inputting secrets#49
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When using `rodney input` to fill a field with a value from a keychain or credential store, the secret can leak into shell tool output. Add a short note to help.txt (embedded in --help) advising users to redirect stdout/stderr to /dev/null. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Summary
--helptext (inhelp.txt) advising users to redirect output to/dev/nullwhen usingrodney inputwith secrets from a keychain or credential storeThis is especially relevant for LLM coding agents that use
rodney inputto fill password fields — without the redirect, the secret value gets captured in shell tool output and leaked into the conversation context.Purpose
To use rodney to test changes to systems behind interactive authentication, and allow the human to stay out of the loop, it can be important to allow an agent to authenticate on its own. We can use keychain tools like
securityto effect this, but it then becomes important to ensure that password doesn't get leaked into context.Example
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