I got tired of .env files leaking my keys, so I built anv
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.en is dead. Long live an. You know that moment when you push a commit and immediately panic because you think you might have accidentally committed your.en file? Or worse - you find out later that your AI coding agent silently read your DB_URL and sent it to some server you don't control? Yeah. Me too. I got tired of being scared of a plaintext file. So I built an. What is an? an is a CLI tool that kills.en files. Period. No plaintext secrets on disk. No accidental git push leaks. No AI agent reading your keys. No doten library required. Your code stays the same.