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A sensitive value such as an API key, token, password, or private signing key.
Secrets should live in secure environment variables or secret managers, never in public code, logs, screenshots, or client bundles. Leaked secrets should be rotated.
Plainly
Think of Secret as the lock and rules that keep people and data safe. A sensitive value such as an API key, token, password, or private signing key.
In practice
Use it when a workflow touches secrets, permissions, user data, payments, or untrusted input. In practice, define the owner, input, output, and failure mode before you rely on it.