AWS Secrets Manager now offers a secret safety skill as part of the aws-core plugin in the Agent Toolkit for AWS , an open-source repository that equips AI coding agents with tools, knowledge, and guardrails for building on AWS. The skill lets developers use secrets within agentic workflows without ever exposing secret values to the underlying model or session logs. Until now, developers using AI coding agents could retrieve secrets as plain text without any guardrails, bringing sensitive values into agent context. With this skill, agents can securely retrieve and consume secrets without passi
Source: AWS What's New — read the full report at the original publisher.