285 credentials, 5 with known owners: the mess before an org's first production agent

New-Resource-4943 · reddit · 2026-09-17

A founder building a company run by agents instead of employees inventoried credentials before deploying his first agent (which provisions VPSs and needs real credentials on day one). The audit found 285 credentials, 180 in production, only 5 with known owners, plus 5 Cloudflare Super Admin grants with 2FA off, 3 tied to personal Gmail accounts. His open question: should each agent get its own secrets workspace in self-hosted Phase, or share one with scoped access? Per-agent is clean at 3 agents but means 30 things to rotate and offboard at 30; shared is simpler until one compromise reads everything. He asks practitioners which path they chose and at what agent count they regretted it.

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