The Credential Vault: How Bridge ACE Agents Handle Secrets Safely

The Credential Vault: How Bridge ACE Agents Handle Secrets Safely AI agents that interact with the real world need credentials — API keys, email passwords, phone numbers, wallet addresses. Storing these securely while making them accessible to agents is a solved problem in Bridge ACE. The Problem A marketing agent needs your Twitter API key. A communication agent needs your email password. A trading agent needs exchange credentials. You cannot hardcode these. You cannot pass them in prompts. You need a secure credential store. Bridge ACE's Solution The Credential Vault uses Fernet symmetric encryption (AES-128-CBC). Credentials are encrypted at rest in ~/.config/bridge/credentials/ . How Agents Use It # Store a credential bridge_credential_store ( service = ' twitter ' , key = ' api_key ' , value = ' your-api-key-here ' ) # Retrieve it later bridge_credential_get ( service = ' twitter ' , key = ' api_key ' ) # List available credentials (keys only, not values) bridge_credential_list ()