secrets: read the 1Password vault once into a 0600 env file

Secrets were pulled in each box's hand-written ~/.zshrc.local with one
`op read` per field on EVERY new shell: every terminal waited on
1Password, every shell broke when it was unreachable, and the loop lived
outside the repo.

New secrets/ module (after bin/, which provides op and jq): one vault per
user and one item, both defaulting to the login name, whose field labels
are the variable names. It asks for the service-account token once
(hidden), fetches the item with a single `op item get`, and writes every
valid-named field to ~/.config/dotfiles/secrets.env (0600), replaced
atomically so a failed fetch keeps the previous copy. Values go through
jq @sh, so quotes, $() and newlines in a secret can't break or inject.
The token is kept in op.env (0600), which shells never source.

bootstrap loads secrets.env right after the module, so mcp-config takes
LITELLM_KEY from the env instead of prompting. A LITELLM_KEY rotated in
the vault also updates ~/.config/mcp-sync/key, since sync.sh re-exports
from that file after secrets.env loads and would otherwise win.

The managed zshrc sources secrets.env (no op call at startup) and adds
envr / envc / envd / envl / envs to read, upsert, delete, list and
refresh; they load the token only in a subshell.

Existing boxes still need the old op loop removed from ~/.zshrc.local.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

README.md

@@ -45,13 +45,27 @@ Already have a clone? Just run it directly:
   kubectx/kubens, stern, yq, OpenTofu, terragrunt, task (go-task, the
   Taskfile runner), the 1Password CLI `op` for secrets storage, the
   opencode coding agent, zarf (DevSecOps for Offline and Airgapped
-  Kubernetes), and packer (HashiCorp's infrastructure build tool).
+  Kubernetes), packer (HashiCorp's infrastructure build tool), and the
+  coder CLI for Coder workspaces.
   kind is installed only when full (non-rootless) Docker is available —
   it doesn't work against rootless Docker, so it is skipped on Kasm.
   No sudo, nothing outside `$HOME`, so tools persist across Kasm
   redeploys with no reinstall. Idempotent: each tool records its version
   under `~/.local/bin/.versions` and is skipped when the pinned version
   is already present. `zsh/zshrc` puts `~/.local/bin` on `PATH`.
+- `secrets/` — reads your 1Password vault once and writes every field to
+  `~/.config/dotfiles/secrets.env` (0600), which the managed `~/.zshrc`
+  sources, so opening a shell never calls `op`. One vault per user and one
+  item in it, both named after your login by default; each field's label is
+  the variable name (`GITEA_KEY`, `LITELLM_KEY`, `PROXMOX_TOKEN_SECRET`, …).
+  The first run prompts for the service-account token (and vault/item), and
+  keeps them in `~/.config/dotfiles/op.env` (0600, not loaded into shells).
+  Runs after `bin/` (needs `op` and `jq`); bootstrap loads the result so later
+  modules get the keys without prompting. Day to day: `envr NAME` reads a
+  field, `envc NAME [VALUE]` creates or updates one (prompts, hidden, without
+  VALUE), `envd NAME` deletes one; both of those refresh the file and this
+  shell. `envl [VAULT [ITEM]]` shows every field with its current value, and
+  `envs` refreshes after a change made elsewhere. No sudo.
 
   opencode is configured by `mcp-config/`: it points at the covert-gpt
   LiteLLM gateway (`https://llm.covert-gpt.com/v1`) for models. MCP tools do
@@ -86,7 +100,8 @@ rc sources last (so it can override anything) and bootstrap never touches:
 cp zsh/zshrc.local.example ~/.zshrc.local && chmod 600 ~/.zshrc.local
 ```
 
-Variables modules look for:
+Variables modules look for. With `secrets/` set up, put these in your vault
+item instead of `~/.zshrc.local`:
 
 - `GITEA_KEY` — personal access token for `git.nic-oconnor.com`. Used for
   API/CLI work, and by `bootstrap.sh`/`mcp-config/` to read this repo when it
@@ -97,8 +112,9 @@ Variables modules look for:
   don't set this by hand: run `mcp-config/install.sh` once and its shell
   hook exports it from `~/.config/mcp-sync/key`. Set it in `~/.zshrc.local`
   only on a box without mcp-sync.
-- `OP_SERVICE_ACCOUNT_TOKEN` — 1Password service-account token for
+- `OP_SERVICE_ACCOUNT_TOKEN` — 1Password service-account token. Not a shell
-  non-interactive `op read` / `op run`.
+  variable any more: `secrets/install.sh` asks for it once and stores it in
+  `~/.config/dotfiles/op.env`. Pass it in the env only for an unattended run.
 - `GITEA_KEY`, `PROXMOX_TOKEN_ID`, `PROXMOX_TOKEN_SECRET` — **your own**
   credentials for the client-side MCP servers in `mcp-config/`. opencode reads
   them from your environment (`{env:VAR}`) and passes them to the MCP server it

bin/install.sh

@@ -204,6 +204,17 @@ install_terragrunt() {
   mark_version terragrunt "$ver"
 }
 
+# coder — CLI for Coder workspaces (coder login, coder ssh, coder config-ssh).
+# Release tag is vX but asset drops the v; binary is at the archive root.
+install_coder() {
+  ver=2.36.5
+  have_version coder "$ver" && { fsay "coder $ver already installed."; return 0; }
+  install_tarball_bin \
+    "https://github.com/coder/coder/releases/download/v$ver/coder_${ver}_linux_$DEB.tar.gz" \
+    coder coder
+  mark_version coder "$ver"
+}
+
 # try <install_fn> — run one tool's installer; on failure, warn and keep going.
 #
 # WHY: these installs used to be bare calls, so under `set -eu` the FIRST
@@ -242,6 +253,7 @@ try install_1p
 try install_opencode
 try install_zarf
 try install_packer
+try install_coder
 
 if [ -n "$FAILED" ]; then
   fsay ""

bootstrap.sh

@@ -82,6 +82,15 @@ run_module git
 # Runs before bin/ so the kind install gate can see the rootful daemon.
 run_module docker
 run_module bin
+# Needs op and jq from bin/. Runs before everything that consumes a secret, and
+# its output is loaded into THIS process so later modules see the vault's
+# values: mcp-config/ takes LITELLM_KEY from the env instead of prompting for
+# it, and GITEA_KEY is there for anything that reads the repo over the API.
+run_module secrets
+if [ -f "$HOME/.config/dotfiles/secrets.env" ]; then
+  # shellcheck source=/dev/null
+  . "$HOME/.config/dotfiles/secrets.env"
+fi
 # Provides npx, which opencode needs to spawn the npm-based MCP servers in
 # mcp-config/. Without it every MCP server silently fails to start.
 run_module node

secrets/install.sh

@@ -0,0 +1,155 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env sh
+# secrets/install.sh — write this user's 1Password vault item to a local,
+# 0600 env file that the managed ~/.zshrc sources.
+#
+# WHY: secrets used to be pulled live in ~/.zshrc.local, one `op read` per
+# field on EVERY new shell. That made each terminal wait on 1Password, broke
+# every shell when the network or the service account was down, and meant each
+# box carried its own hand-written copy of the loop. Now the vault is read once
+# here (at bootstrap, or on demand with `envs`), and shells read a local file.
+#
+# Layout: one vault per user (default: the login name), holding one item
+# (default: also the login name) whose field LABELS are the variable names —
+# GITEA_KEY, LITELLM_KEY, PROXMOX_TOKEN_SECRET, ... Every such field is
+# exported. Add a secret by adding a field (`envc NAME`), not by editing
+# this repo.
+#
+# Files, all under ~/.config/dotfiles (0700), none in the repo:
+#   op.env       OP_SERVICE_ACCOUNT_TOKEN, OP_VAULT, OP_ITEM (0600). Kept so a
+#                refresh needs no prompt. Deliberately NOT sourced by shells:
+#                the token stays out of every process's environment, and only
+#                the env* helpers in zsh/zshrc load it, in a subshell.
+#   secrets.env  the exported fields (0600), replaced atomically, so a failed
+#                fetch leaves the previous copy in place.
+#
+# Prompts for the token on the controlling TTY the first time (bootstrap is
+# often piped into sh, so stdin is not the terminal). Without a TTY, pass
+# OP_SERVICE_ACCOUNT_TOKEN (and optionally OP_VAULT / OP_ITEM) in the env.
+# Needs op and jq, which bin/ installs. No sudo.
+set -eu
+
+say() { printf '%s\n' "$*" >&2; }
+
+CONF_DIR="${DOTFILES_CONFIG_DIR:-$HOME/.config/dotfiles}"
+OP_ENV="$CONF_DIR/op.env"
+SECRETS_ENV="$CONF_DIR/secrets.env"
+MCP_SYNC_KEYFILE="$HOME/.config/mcp-sync/key"
+
+umask 077
+mkdir -p "$CONF_DIR"
+chmod 0700 "$CONF_DIR"
+
+PATH="$HOME/.local/bin:$PATH"
+for _tool in op jq; do
+  if ! "$_tool" --version >/dev/null 2>&1; then
+    say "secrets: $_tool is not installed or does not run; run bin/install.sh first."
+    exit 1
+  fi
+done
+
+# --- 1. resolve the service account, vault and item -------------------------
+# Precedence: the environment, then op.env, then a prompt (token) / defaults.
+_env_token="${OP_SERVICE_ACCOUNT_TOKEN:-}"
+_env_vault="${OP_VAULT:-}"
+_env_item="${OP_ITEM:-}"
+if [ -f "$OP_ENV" ]; then
+  # shellcheck source=/dev/null
+  . "$OP_ENV"
+fi
+OP_SERVICE_ACCOUNT_TOKEN="${_env_token:-${OP_SERVICE_ACCOUNT_TOKEN:-}}"
+OP_VAULT="${_env_vault:-${OP_VAULT:-}}"
+OP_ITEM="${_env_item:-${OP_ITEM:-}}"
+_user="$(id -un)"
+
+# ask <prompt> <default> — read one line from the TTY; echoes the default on empty.
+ask() {
+  printf '%s [%s]: ' "$1" "$2" >&2
+  IFS= read -r _ans < /dev/tty || _ans=""
+  printf '%s' "${_ans:-$2}"
+}
+
+if [ -z "$OP_SERVICE_ACCOUNT_TOKEN" ]; then
+  if [ -f "$SECRETS_ENV" ]; then
+    say "secrets: no service-account token; keeping existing $SECRETS_ENV."
+    exit 0
+  fi
+  # Probe in a subshell: in POSIX sh a failed redirect on a special builtin
+  # like `:` exits the whole script, which would skip the message below.
+  if ! ( : < /dev/tty ) 2>/dev/null; then
+    say "secrets: no OP_SERVICE_ACCOUNT_TOKEN and no TTY to prompt."
+    say "         re-run as: OP_SERVICE_ACCOUNT_TOKEN=ops_... $0"
+    exit 1
+  fi
+  printf '1Password service-account token (ops_..., input hidden): ' >&2
+  stty -echo < /dev/tty 2>/dev/null || true
+  IFS= read -r OP_SERVICE_ACCOUNT_TOKEN < /dev/tty || true
+  stty echo < /dev/tty 2>/dev/null || true
+  printf '\n' >&2
+  OP_SERVICE_ACCOUNT_TOKEN="$(printf '%s' "$OP_SERVICE_ACCOUNT_TOKEN" | tr -d ' \t\r\n')"
+  [ -n "$OP_SERVICE_ACCOUNT_TOKEN" ] || { say "secrets: no token entered."; exit 1; }
+  [ -n "$OP_VAULT" ] || OP_VAULT="$(ask 'Vault' "$_user")"
+  [ -n "$OP_ITEM" ] || OP_ITEM="$(ask 'Item' "$_user")"
+fi
+OP_VAULT="${OP_VAULT:-$_user}"
+OP_ITEM="${OP_ITEM:-$_user}"
+export OP_SERVICE_ACCOUNT_TOKEN
+
+# --- 2. fetch the item once and render it -----------------------------------
+# One `op item get` instead of one `op read` per field. Labels that are not
+# valid shell identifiers (and the item's built-in notes field) are skipped
+# rather than eval'd; values go through jq's @sh, so quotes, $ and newlines in
+# a secret cannot break or inject into the file.
+if ! _json="$(op item get "$OP_ITEM" --vault "$OP_VAULT" --reveal --format json)"; then
+  say "secrets: could not read item '$OP_ITEM' in vault '$OP_VAULT'."
+  [ -f "$SECRETS_ENV" ] && say "secrets: keeping the previous $SECRETS_ENV."
+  exit 1
+fi
+
+_skipped="$(printf '%s' "$_json" | jq -r '
+  [.fields[] | select(.purpose != "NOTES")
+   | select((.label // "") | test("^[A-Za-z_][A-Za-z0-9_]*$") | not) | .label]
+  | join(", ")')"
+[ -z "$_skipped" ] || say "secrets: skipped fields whose labels are not variable names: $_skipped"
+
+_tmp="$(mktemp "$CONF_DIR/secrets.env.XXXXXX")"
+trap 'rm -f "$_tmp"' EXIT
+{
+  printf '# Generated by dotfiles secrets/install.sh from op://%s/%s — do not edit.\n' "$OP_VAULT" "$OP_ITEM"
+  printf '# Refresh with: envs   (change the vault with: envc NAME / envd NAME)\n'
+  printf '%s' "$_json" | jq -r '
+    .fields[]
+    | select(.purpose != "NOTES")
+    | select((.label // "") | test("^[A-Za-z_][A-Za-z0-9_]*$"))
+    | select((.value // "") != "")
+    | "export \(.label)=\(.value | @sh)"'
+} > "$_tmp"
+chmod 0600 "$_tmp"
+_count="$(grep -c '^export ' "$_tmp" || true)"
+if [ "$_count" -eq 0 ]; then
+  say "secrets: item '$OP_ITEM' has no exportable fields; keeping the previous file."
+  exit 1
+fi
+mv -f "$_tmp" "$SECRETS_ENV"
+trap - EXIT
+say "secrets: wrote $_count variables to $SECRETS_ENV (0600)."
+
+# Remember the account only after it has actually worked.
+{
+  printf 'OP_SERVICE_ACCOUNT_TOKEN=%s\n' "$(printf '%s' "$OP_SERVICE_ACCOUNT_TOKEN" | jq -Rr @sh)"
+  printf 'OP_VAULT=%s\n' "$(printf '%s' "$OP_VAULT" | jq -Rr @sh)"
+  printf 'OP_ITEM=%s\n' "$(printf '%s' "$OP_ITEM" | jq -Rr @sh)"
+} > "$OP_ENV"
+chmod 0600 "$OP_ENV"
+
+# --- 3. keep mcp-sync's copy of the gateway key in step ----------------------
+# mcp-config/sync.sh exports LITELLM_KEY from its own key file on every shell,
+# AFTER secrets.env is loaded, so a key rotated in the vault would otherwise be
+# silently overridden by the stale copy. Only update a file that already exists:
+# creating it is mcp-config/install.sh's job.
+_litellm="$(printf '%s' "$_json" | jq -r '.fields[] | select(.label == "LITELLM_KEY") | .value // empty' | head -n 1)"
+if [ -n "$_litellm" ] && [ -f "$MCP_SYNC_KEYFILE" ] \
+   && [ "$(tr -d ' \t\r\n' < "$MCP_SYNC_KEYFILE")" != "$_litellm" ]; then
+  printf '%s' "$_litellm" > "$MCP_SYNC_KEYFILE"
+  chmod 0600 "$MCP_SYNC_KEYFILE"
+  say "secrets: LITELLM_KEY changed; updated $MCP_SYNC_KEYFILE (re-run hermes/install.sh for Hermes)."
+fi

zsh/zshrc

@@ -74,6 +74,73 @@ grmb() {
   return $rc
 }
 
+# Secrets from this user's 1Password vault, written by dotfiles/secrets/install.sh.
+# Reading a local 0600 file keeps shell startup off the network: nothing here
+# calls op. envc/envd refresh the file themselves; after editing the vault
+# anywhere else (the 1Password app, another box), run `envs`.
+_DOTFILES_CONF="$HOME/.config/dotfiles"
+[ -f "$_DOTFILES_CONF/secrets.env" ] && source "$_DOTFILES_CONF/secrets.env"
+
+# envr NAME           read one field straight from the vault
+# envc NAME [VALUE]   create or update a field (prompts, hidden, when VALUE is
+#                     omitted, which keeps the secret out of shell history),
+#                     then refresh and reload this shell
+# envd NAME           delete a field, refresh, and unset it in this shell
+# envl [VAULT [ITEM]] show every field and its current value (default: your
+#                     vault and item from op.env)
+# envs                re-fetch the vault into secrets.env and reload this shell
+#
+# The service-account token lives in op.env and is loaded only inside these
+# subshells, so it never lands in the environment of everything you run.
+_dotfiles_op() {
+  [ -f "$_DOTFILES_CONF/op.env" ] || { print -u2 "no $_DOTFILES_CONF/op.env; run: envs"; return 1; }
+  ( set -a; source "$_DOTFILES_CONF/op.env"; set +a; "$@" )
+}
+_dotfiles_env_name() {
+  [[ "$1" =~ '^[A-Za-z_][A-Za-z0-9_]*$' ]] && return 0
+  print -u2 "$2: '$1' is not a valid variable name"; return 2
+}
+envr() {
+  _dotfiles_env_name "$1" envr || return
+  _dotfiles_op sh -c 'op read "op://$OP_VAULT/$OP_ITEM/$1"' envr "$1"
+}
+envc() {
+  emulate -L zsh
+  local name=$1 value
+  _dotfiles_env_name "$name" envc || return
+  if (( $# >= 2 )); then
+    value=$2
+  else
+    read -rs "value?$name: " && print
+  fi
+  # [concealed] makes it a password field; an existing field of that name is updated.
+  _dotfiles_op sh -c 'op item edit "$OP_ITEM" --vault "$OP_VAULT" "$1[concealed]=$2" >/dev/null' \
+    envc "$name" "$value" && envs
+}
+envd() {
+  _dotfiles_env_name "$1" envd || return
+  _dotfiles_op sh -c 'op item edit "$OP_ITEM" --vault "$OP_VAULT" "$1[delete]" >/dev/null' envd "$1" \
+    && unset "$1" && envs
+}
+envl() {
+  _dotfiles_op sh -c '
+    vault=${1:-$OP_VAULT} item=${2:-$OP_ITEM}
+    printf "op://%s/%s\n" "$vault" "$item" >&2
+    op item get "$item" --vault "$vault" --reveal --format json' envl "$@" \
+    | jq -r '
+        [.fields[] | select(.purpose != "NOTES")] as $f
+        | ([$f[] | .label // "" | length] | max // 0) as $w
+        | $f[]
+        | ((.label // "") + " " * ($w - ((.label // "") | length))) as $name
+        | ((.value // "") | split("\n")) as $lines
+        | "\($name)  \($lines[0] // "")",
+          ($lines[1:][] | (" " * ($w + 2)) + .)'
+}
+envs() {
+  "${DOTFILES_DIR:-$HOME/.dotfiles}/secrets/install.sh" \
+    && source "$_DOTFILES_CONF/secrets.env"
+}
+
 # Per-machine customizations (secrets, keys, local overrides) live in
 # ~/.zshrc.local, which bootstrap never touches. See zsh/zshrc.local.example
 # for the variables modules look for. Loaded last so it can override anything.

zsh/zshrc.local.example

@@ -1,7 +1,9 @@
 # ~/.zshrc.local — per-machine customizations. Copy this file to
 # ~/.zshrc.local and fill in what this box needs. It is sourced at the end
 # of the managed ~/.zshrc, is never overwritten by bootstrap, and never
-# lives in the repo — this is the ONLY place to put secrets.
+# lives in the repo. Secrets normally come from your 1Password vault instead
+# (secrets/install.sh -> ~/.config/dotfiles/secrets.env); set one here only on
+# a box without 1Password, or to override the vault's value on this machine.
 #
 #   cp zsh/zshrc.local.example ~/.zshrc.local && chmod 600 ~/.zshrc.local
 
@@ -30,9 +32,11 @@
 # Only the bootstrap-managed checkout (~/.dotfiles) is ever `git pull`-ed by the
 # hook, and only when clean — a tree you work in is read, never touched.
 
-# --- 1Password CLI -------------------------------------------------------
+# --- 1Password -----------------------------------------------------------
-# Service-account token for non-interactive `op read` / `op run`.
+# Nothing to set here. Do NOT loop over `op read` in this file: that ran on
-# export OP_SERVICE_ACCOUNT_TOKEN=ops_...
+# every shell. secrets/install.sh stores the service-account token in
+# ~/.config/dotfiles/op.env and writes the vault's fields to secrets.env, which
+# the managed ~/.zshrc loads. Use envr / envc / envd (see zsh/zshrc).
 
 # --- Proxmox -------------------------------------------------------------
 # One pair of credentials, several consumers: the proxmox MCP server
@@ -40,8 +44,8 @@
 # rke2-devops-airgap, whose Taskfile composes PROXMOX_VE_API_TOKEN from them.
 # Unprefixed on purpose — these are Proxmox credentials, not MCP ones.
 #
-# The op-vault loop above already exports them from the `noconnor` item, so
+# secrets.env already exports them from your vault item, so these lines are
-# these lines are only needed without 1Password. Never committed.
+# only needed without 1Password. Never committed.
 # export PROXMOX_TOKEN_ID="root@pam!terragrunt-proxmox"
 # export PROXMOX_TOKEN_SECRET="00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000"
 #