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Sumit Khanna

Founder

Founder and developer behind SlickEnv. Building CLI-first tools for developers who care about security, simplicity, and shipping fast.

Articles by Sumit Khanna

Your AI Coding Tool Can Read Your .env File Right Now

Cursor, Claude Code, GitHub Copilot — they all read your project files. That includes .env. Here's what to do about it.

5 min read

We Found 3 Production Stripe Keys in Our Git History — Here's What We Did

A routine security audit with slickenv git scan found live Stripe keys committed 8 months ago. Here's the full story and what we did to fix it.

7 min read

12 Million .env Files Were Exposed. Here's What Developers Get Wrong.

Researchers found over 12 million publicly accessible .env files leaking database passwords, API keys, and cloud credentials. Here's how it happens, what attackers do with the data, and how to fix it.

13 min read

SlickEnv vs Doppler vs dotenv-vault: Which Is Right for Your Team?

An honest comparison of three popular .env management tools: SlickEnv, Doppler, and dotenv-vault. Pricing, encryption model, CLI experience, and team fit compared side by side.

14 min read

Securing Your .env in the Age of Autonomous Code Agents

A practical guide to keeping your secrets safe when AI agents have full access to your codebase. Strategies for the agentic development era.

10 min read

You Gave Your AI Agent Full Access. Did You Think About Your .env?

AI coding agents like Claude Code and Cursor have full terminal and file system access. They can read, modify, and delete your .env files. Most people never think about this.

9 min read

The Practical Guide to Environment Variable Management for Teams

A step-by-step guide to managing .env files across teams, projects, and environments. From .env.example patterns to encrypted sync workflows.

12 min read

Everyone's a Developer Now. Nobody's Managing the Secrets.

When product managers, designers, and founders can build production apps with AI, the .env file becomes the weakest link. Here's the hidden crisis nobody talks about.

9 min read

Your Code is Versioned. Your Secrets Aren't. Here's Why That's a Problem.

Git tracks every line of code. Your infrastructure is in Terraform. But your environment variables live in a file that nobody versions. Here's what changes when they do.

8 min read

Vibe Coding, AI Agents, and the .env Files Nobody Checks

AI-generated code is everywhere. But when anyone can build an app by prompting, who's making sure the secrets are safe? A look at the blind spots of the vibe coding era.

10 min read

Stop Sharing Secrets on Slack

Developers share API keys on Slack every day. Here's why that's a ticking time bomb, and what the Uber, CircleCI, and LastPass breaches teach us about secret management.

9 min read

Why We Built SlickEnv

The story behind SlickEnv. Why environment variable management deserves a dedicated tool, and how we designed it from the terminal up.

7 min read