PP123: Using Gridctl to Keep MCP Configs From Leaking Secrets

PP123: Using Gridctl to Keep MCP Configs From Leaking Secrets25 Aug55 min

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If you’ve been spinning up AI tools — Claude Desktop, Cursor, Copilot, and so on — there’s a decent chance that API keys, credentials, and access tokens are sitting in plaintext on your laptop. With MCP, every quickstart guide tells you to paste your credentials right into a config file. That was a bad habit<a class="excerpt-read-more" href="https://packetpushers.net/podcasts/packet-protector/pp123-using-gridctl-to-keep-mcp-configs-from-leaking-secrets/" title="ReadPP123: Using Gridctl to Keep MCP Configs From Leaking Secrets">... Read more »</a>