# Encrypted Environment Variables

**Safe Env** keeps API keys, tokens and other secrets encrypted on your computer, so the AI can use them later without you pasting them again.

## When to use it

When a skill or connection needs a key or password and you do not want it written in a file or a chat.

## How to use it

- **Save**: tell the AI "Save this key as MY_SERVICE_KEY" and paste the value. A new key is saved straight away.
- **See**: **Settings › General › Safe Env** lists each key with its description and update time. Values are never shown.
- **Use**: when the AI needs a value, you confirm first — on macOS with your password or Touch ID, on Windows in a confirmation window.
- **Change or delete**: the AI shows a card with the key name; nothing changes until you approve.