Janee 🔐

Secrets management for AI agents via MCP

Your AI agents need API access to be useful. But they shouldn't have your raw API keys. Janee sits between your agents and your APIs — injecting credentials, enforcing policies, and logging everything.

✨ Features

The Problem

AI agents need API access to be useful. The current approach is to give them your keys and hope they behave.

• 🔓 Agents have full access to Stripe, Gmail, databases
• 📊 No audit trail of what was accessed or why
• 🚫 No kill switch when things go wrong
• 💉 One prompt injection away from disaster

The Solution

Janee is an MCP server that manages API secrets for AI agents:

1. Store your API keys — encrypted locally in ~/.janee/
2. Run janee serve — starts MCP server
3. Agent requests access — via execute MCP tool
4. Janee injects the real key — agent never sees it
5. Everything is logged — full audit trail

Your keys stay on your machine. Agents never see them. You stay in control.

Configure Once, Use Everywhere

Set up your APIs in Janee once:

services:
  stripe:
    baseUrl: https://api.stripe.com
    auth: { type: bearer, key: sk_live_xxx }
  github:
    baseUrl: https://api.github.com
    auth: { type: bearer, key: ghp_xxx }
  openai:
    baseUrl: https://api.openai.com
    auth: { type: bearer, key: sk-xxx }

Now every agent that connects to Janee can use them:

• Claude Desktop — access your APIs
• Cursor — access your APIs
• OpenClaw — access your APIs
• Any MCP client — access your APIs

No more copying keys between tools. No more "which agent has which API configured?" Add a new agent? It already has access to everything. Revoke a key? Update it once in Janee.

One config. Every agent. Full audit trail.

Quick Start

Install

npm install -g @true-and-useful/janee

Initialize

janee init

This creates ~/.janee/config.yaml with example services.

Add Services

Option 1: Interactive (recommended for first-time users)

janee add

Janee will guide you through adding a service:

Service name: stripe
Base URL: https://api.stripe.com
Auth type: bearer
API key: sk_live_xxx

✓ Added service "stripe"

Create a capability for this service? (Y/n): y
Capability name (default: stripe): 
TTL (e.g., 1h, 30m): 1h
Auto-approve? (Y/n): y

✓ Added capability "stripe"

Done! Run 'janee serve' to start.

Using an AI agent? See Non-interactive Setup for flags that skip prompts, or the agent-specific guides below.

Option 2: Edit config directly

Edit ~/.janee/config.yaml:

services:
  stripe:
    baseUrl: https://api.stripe.com
    auth:
      type: bearer
      key: sk_live_xxx

capabilities:
  stripe:
    service: stripe
    ttl: 1h
    autoApprove: true

Add CLI tools (exec mode)

Some tools need credentials as environment variables, not HTTP headers. Exec mode handles this:

janee add twitter --exec \
  --key "tvly-xxx" \
  --allow-commands "bird,tweet-cli" \
  --env-map "TWITTER_API_KEY={{credential}}"

Now agents can run CLI tools through Janee without ever seeing the API key:

// Agent calls janee_exec tool
janee_exec({
  capability: "twitter",
  command: ["bird", "post", "Hello world!"],
  cwd: "/home/agent/project",  // optional working directory
  reason: "User asked to post a tweet"
})

Janee spawns the process with TWITTER_API_KEY injected, runs the command, and returns stdout/stderr. The credential never enters the agent's context.

Key flags:

• --exec — configure as exec-mode (CLI wrapper instead of HTTP proxy)
• --allow-commands — whitelist of allowed executables (security)
• --env-map — map credentials to environment variables
• --work-dir — working directory for the subprocess
• --timeout — max execution time (default: 30s)

Git operations (automatic HTTPS auth)

When using exec mode with GitHub credentials, Janee automatically handles git authentication. No extra configuration needed — git push, git pull, and git clone just work:

capabilities:
  - name: git-ops
    service: github
    mode: exec
    allowCommands: [git]
    env:
      GH_TOKEN: "{{credential}}"

// Agent can push code without ever seeing the token
janee_exec({
  capability: "git-ops",
  command: ["git", "push", "origin", "main"],
  cwd: "/workspace/my-repo"
})

Janee detects git commands with GH_TOKEN/GITHUB_TOKEN in the environment and creates a temporary askpass script for HTTPS authentication. The script is cleaned up automatically after the command completes.

Add GitHub App auth (for autonomous agents)

Static tokens are risky for long-running agents. GitHub App auth generates short-lived installation tokens on demand — no long-lived PATs required.

Option 1: Use create-gh-app (recommended)

npx @true-and-useful/create-gh-app create my-agent --owner @me
# Opens browser → creates app → saves credentials locally

# Install the app on your repos
# https://github.com/apps/my-agent/installations/new

# Register with Janee in one command
npx @true-and-useful/create-gh-app janee-add my-agent

Done. Your agent now gets short-lived GitHub tokens through Janee's MCP proxy.

Option 2: Manual setup

janee add github-app \
  --auth-type github-app \
  --app-id 123456 \
  --pem-file /path/to/private-key.pem \
  --installation-id 789

Or via config:

services:
  github:
    baseUrl: https://api.github.com
    auth:
      type: github-app
      appId: "123456"
      pemFile: /path/to/private-key.pem
      installationId: "789"

How it works: When an agent requests access, Janee signs a JWT with the app's private key, exchanges it for a 1-hour installation token via GitHub's API, and caches the token until expiry. The agent never sees the private key — only the short-lived token reaches the API.

Start the MCP server

janee serve

Use with your agent

Agents that support MCP (Claude Desktop, Cursor, OpenClaw) can now call the execute tool to make API requests through Janee:

// Agent calls the execute tool
execute({
  capability: "stripe",
  method: "GET",
  path: "/v1/balance",
  reason: "User asked for account balance"
})

Janee decrypts the key, makes the request, logs everything, and returns the response.

Integrations

Works with any agent that speaks MCP:

• OpenClaw — Native plugin (@true-and-useful/janee-openclaw)
  • Containerized agents? See Container setup guide
• Cursor — Setup guide
• Claude Code — Setup guide
• Codex CLI — Setup guide
• Any MCP client — just point at janee serve

OpenClaw Integration

If you're using OpenClaw, install the plugin for native tool support:

npm install -g @true-and-useful/janee
janee init
# Edit ~/.janee/config.yaml with your services

# Install the OpenClaw plugin
openclaw plugins install @true-and-useful/janee-openclaw

Enable in your agent config:

{
  agents: {
    list: [{
      id: "main",
      tools: { allow: ["janee"] }
    }]
  }
}

Your agent now has these tools:

• janee_list_services — Discover available APIs
• janee_execute — Make API requests through Janee

The plugin spawns janee serve automatically. All requests are logged to ~/.janee/logs/.

MCP Tools

Janee exposes three MCP tools:

Agents discover what's available, then call APIs through Janee. Same audit trail, same protection.

Configuration

Config lives in ~/.janee/config.yaml:

server:
  host: localhost

services:
  stripe:
    baseUrl: https://api.stripe.com
    auth:
      type: bearer
      key: sk_live_xxx  # encrypted at rest