Every AI coding agent you use has already read your production secrets.

Not might have. Has. If you've given any AI coding tool access to your filesystem — Cursor, Claude Code, Copilot, Codex, Windsurf — it has read your .env file. The one with your real Stripe live key. Your production database URL with actual credentials. Your AWS secret key. Your JWT signing secret. It read them because that's what it does. AI agents scan your project directory to understand your codebase. Every file is context. .env is just another file. This isn't a bug. It's the feature. The agent didn't exploit a vulnerability. You gave it file access because without it, the agent is useless. It can't understand your code without reading your project. And your project includes .env. So your STRIPE_SECRET_KEY=sk_live_4eC39HqLyjWDarjtT1zdp7dc got scooped up as context, packaged into an API request, and sent over the wire to the AI provider's servers. It's in their logs now. Maybe in their caches. You have no idea how long it persists or who has access to it on their end. And this happ