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Every developer's laptop is a pile of plaintext secrets.

Run this: cat ~/.cache/huggingface/token That's your Hugging Face token. Plaintext. In a cache folder the kind that ends up in backups, rsyncs, and Docker COPYs. jit 0.8.2 fixes it in one command:β–Ž jit wrap hf Token

Every developer's laptop is a pile of plaintext secrets.

Run this: cat ~/.cache/huggingface/token

That's your Hugging Face token. Plaintext. In a cache folder the kind that ends up in backups, rsyncs, and Docker COPYs.

jit 0.8.2 fixes it in one command:β–Ž

jit wrap hf

Token vaulted, file scrubbed, hf keeps working as if nothing changed.

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jit is an free CLI that finds the plaintext secrets scattered across a Mac and converts them into just-in-time, Touch-ID-gated credentials, without breaking anything that reads them.

jitpass: the jit CLI

Just-in-time credentials for your dev machine.

Documentation Β· Quickstart Β· Supported tools Β· Command reference Β· Security

Introduction

The problem. A working dev machine accumulates plaintext secrets: .env files, export STRIPE_KEY=... lines in shell configs, ~/.aws/credentials kubeconfig client keys, Terraform Cloud tokens, .npmrc auth tokens, MCP server configs. Every one of them is readable by anything running as your user, gets swept into backups and file indexes, and stays on disk long after the moment you actually needed it.

What jit does. jit finds those secrets (jit audit, strictly read-only), moves them into a local encrypted vault, and rewrites each file so everything keeps working without the secret sitting on disk:

jit audit                  # what's exposed on this machine? (strictly read-only)
jit migrate local          # fix this project; tools keep working
jit wrap gh                # move a CLI's token into the vault; keep
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