Run Your Dev Server Without a .env File

Every project has one. A .env file sitting in the project root with database passwords, API keys, and secrets of varying sensitivity. You have it in .gitignore . You hope nobody accidentally commits it. You send it to new teammates over Slack because there's no better option. You've probably forgotten it's there half the time. The .env file is the developer ecosystem's accepted bad practice. Everyone knows it's not great. Nobody has a better answer for local development that doesn't require enterprise infrastructure. agentsecrets env is that answer. What It Does agentsecrets env is a process wrapper. You put it in front of any command. It pulls your secrets from the OS keychain and injects them as environment variables into the process at launch. The process reads from os.environ normally — no changes to your application code, no SDK to install, no integration work. When the process exits, the values are gone. Nothing was written to disk. # Instead of: python manage.py runserver # You