kebandClaude Opus 5.5
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Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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# SOPS and .env files in git repos
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lazysecrets shows git repositories under **Repos**: their
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[SOPS](https://github.com/getsops/sops)-encrypted files (YAML, JSON,
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`.env`, INI) and plain env files as vaults, and the keys in them
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(`db.password`, `list[0]`) as secrets.
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## Which repos
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**Repos** lists every repo with secret files under the `roots` (`~/git`
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by default; one or two levels down, `repo` or `org/repo`), any listed in
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`paths`, and any you starred something in (the repo, a file or a key),
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wherever it is. They're checked in the background.
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Started inside a repo, that repo gets a row of its own at the top,
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`Repo · <name>`, and lazysecrets opens on it, with the files under the
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directory you started in first. In the flat list (`` ` ``) it sorts first, marked
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`· here`.
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A repo without secret files isn't listed. `--dir <path>` starts somewhere
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else, for example in one project of a monorepo.
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Repos load themselves as they're found, files and keys, since they're
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local and cheap: [Go to](keys.md#go-to) searches them without loading
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anything by hand.
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## Which files
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**Env files**: `.env`, `.env.local`, `prod.env` and the like, also when
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git-ignored (as they usually are), in the folders git tracks files in;
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not `.env.example`, `.sample`, `.template` and the like. They're read
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directly; a file with SOPS metadata is always treated as SOPS, whatever
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its name.
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Folders of dependencies and caches are never looked in, tracked or not:
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`node_modules`, `vendor`, `.venv`, `venv`, `__pycache__`, `.terraform`,
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`.gradle`, `.yarn`, `.next` and the like.
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**SOPS files**: those tracked by git, then the first of
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1. `include`/`exclude` in the repo's own `.lazysecrets.yaml` (committed,
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so everyone sees the same files),
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2. `include`/`exclude` in the config,
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3. where the repo's `.sops.yaml` `creation_rules` say SOPS files go,
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4. the whole repo.
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`include`/`exclude` apply to env files too.
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```yaml
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providers:
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repos:
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roots: [~/git] # folders of repos (the default; [] turns it off)
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paths: [~/work/infra] # single repos elsewhere
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include: ["secrets/**", "**/*.sops.yaml"] # globs from the repo root; ** for any depth
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exclude: ["**/testdata/**"]
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```
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## Decrypting
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Listing never decrypts: SOPS encrypts values only, so keys and metadata
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(encryption, last modified) are read straight from the files. Revealing,
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copying or `lazysecrets get` decrypts one value with your `sops` binary, so
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whatever sops uses works (age keys, Azure Key Vault through az, AWS/GCP
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KMS, PGP). When sops can't decrypt, its whole error message is shown.
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On a file, the right pane shows how it's encrypted and the keys it's
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encrypted for (public: age recipients, Key Vault keys, KMS ARNs, PGP
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fingerprints), when it was last encrypted, and what git knows of it:
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tracked, ignored or neither, and its last commit. A plain `.env` file that
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git tracks, or that isn't ignored, is marked in red: its values are in the
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repo's history, or easily could be.
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## Opening files
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`e` opens the selected file, or on a secret, its file at that key's line:
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- **SOPS files** open with `sops edit`, which decrypts them into your
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editor (`$SOPS_EDITOR` or `$EDITOR`) and encrypts them again when you
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save. lazysecrets comes back after, with the file's keys reloaded.
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- **Other files**, when lazysecrets runs inside nvim (its plugin, or
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`:terminal`): lazysecrets quits and the file opens in that nvim, in the
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window you came from.
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- Otherwise in `$VISUAL` or `$EDITOR` in the terminal, coming back after;
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without either, in the system's default app for the file.
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Editors that take a line (vim, nvim, nano, emacs, micro, helix, VS Code,
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Zed, Sublime and others) start on the key. With `sops edit` that works for
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editors taking `+N` (vim, nvim, nano, emacs, micro and others), and needs
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sops 3.8 or later.
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## Links
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Links name the repo by its git remote, so they open in a colleague's clone
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wherever it is:
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```
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lazysecrets://repo/git.example.com%2Fteam%2Finfra/secrets%2Fapp.yaml/db.password
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```
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See [links](links.md).
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