https://stackresearch.org/tags/secrets/Recent content in Secrets on Stack ResearchHugoen-usTue, 17 Feb 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://stackresearch.org/research/nhi-asi-series-03-secrets-and-memory/Tue, 17 Feb 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://stackresearch.org/research/nhi-asi-series-03-secrets-and-memory/<p>A secret leak is not a single event. It is a copying process.</p> <p>A token appears in a CI log. The log is indexed for troubleshooting. An agent is asked to diagnose a failed deployment and retrieves the log. The agent summarizes the failure, stores the useful parts in memory, and later uses that memory while calling a tool. By then the token may have moved through several systems that were never designed to be secret stores.</p>