⟐ Claude Code/2026-08-09Advanced
One Transient 401 Replaced My Long-Lived Token — Giving Credentials a Provenance Field
A shared credential file can lose its long-lived token to a single transient 401. I injected exactly one 401 into a 24-worker fleet, measured the blast radius, and compared a provenance guard against full isolation.
⟐ Claude Code/2026-08-05Advanced
Passing the Request, Not the Secret — Where Sandbox Credential Masking Works and Where Substitution Breaks
Claude Code's sandbox credential masking lets processes read sentinel values while a proxy swaps in the real secret at send time. I rebuilt it as a minimal proxy and measured which auth schemes survive the swap, which break, and what happens when the secret rides in the body.
⟐ Claude Code/2026-06-25Advanced
Your Sandbox Can Run the Code but Shouldn't Read Your Credentials — Shrinking the Secret-Read Surface with sandbox.credentials
Claude Code's sandbox can still read ~/.aws/credentials and token env vars by default. Using sandbox.credentials (v2.1.187+), here is how I tightened the secret-read surface of unattended runs at the OS level, with config and verification you can reuse.