Credential Brokering for AI Agents, Explained
Your AI agent can read and exfiltrate your credentials with a simple prompt injection. Credential brokering fixes this by putting a proxy between the agent and upstream APIs so the agent never holds real secrets. This video covers the pattern, a live demo with Agent Vault (open source credential broker), and deployment principles for production. Agent Vault Repo: https://github.com/infisical/agent-vault Agent Vault docs: https://docs.agent-vault.dev/ 0:00 Intro 0:44 Why secrets managers fall short 1:14 What is credential brokering 2:18 Agent Vault 3:48 Live demo 5:04 How it works end to end 6:05 Deployment principles 7:06 Scaling up 7:28 Outro Follow Infisical: Website: https://infisical.com LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/infisical GitHub: https://github.com/Infisical Twitter / X: https://x.com/infisical Slack: https://infisical.com/slack