zeph-vault

VaultProvider trait and backends (env, age) for Zeph secret management.

Overview

Provides a unified interface for resolving secrets needed by the agent (API keys, tokens) without embedding them in the config file. Two backends ship out of the box: an environment-variable backend for simple deployments and an age-encrypted file backend for production use. All secret values are held as Zeroizing<String> — they are zeroed in memory on drop and never implement Clone.

Key types

Type	Description
`VaultProvider`	Trait: `get(key) -> Option<Zeroizing<String>>`, `set(key, value)`, `delete(key)`, `list_keys()`, `save()`
`EnvVaultProvider`	Reads secrets from environment variables; writes are no-ops
`AgeVaultProvider`	Reads/writes an age-encrypted JSON file (`~/.config/zeph/vault.age`)
`AnyVaultProvider`	Enum dispatch over all provider variants
`VaultError`	Typed error enum (`Io`, `Decrypt`, `Encrypt`, `Parse`, `KeyNotFound`)
`MockVaultProvider`	In-memory provider for tests (feature-gated: `mock`)

Usage

use zeph_vault::{AgeVaultProvider, VaultProvider};

// Open (or create) the age-encrypted vault
let mut vault = AgeVaultProvider::open("~/.config/zeph/vault.age")?;

// Store a secret
vault.set("ZEPH_CLAUDE_API_KEY", "sk-ant-...".into());
vault.save().await?;

// Retrieve a secret — returned as Zeroizing<String>
if let Some(key) = vault.get("ZEPH_CLAUDE_API_KEY") {
    println!("Key length: {}", key.len());
    // key is zeroed when dropped
}

CLI usage:

zeph vault set ZEPH_CLAUDE_API_KEY sk-ant-...
zeph vault get ZEPH_CLAUDE_API_KEY
zeph vault list
zeph vault delete ZEPH_CLAUDE_API_KEY

Configuration

[vault]
backend = "age"                           # "env" or "age"
path = "~/.config/zeph/vault.age"         # only used by "age" backend

The env backend resolves secrets directly from environment variables — no file needed. Use age for production deployments where secrets must be stored on disk.

[!IMPORTANT] Age-encrypted vault files are created with 0o600 permissions. Ensure the key file (~/.config/zeph/age_key) is kept secure. Losing the key makes the vault unrecoverable.

Features

Feature	Description
`mock`	Enables `MockVaultProvider` for downstream crate tests

Installation

cargo add zeph-vault

Documentation

Full documentation: https://bug-ops.github.io/zeph/

License

MIT

zeph-vault 0.18.5