Agent Skills Break When Secrets Leave Your Laptop

Agent skills pack instructions and code into portable folders, but credentials break the moment workloads migrate away from local machines. While tools like the GitHub CLI prove that agents can drive workflows without dedicated servers, secrets lack a native home in the Agent Skills specification. Examining divergent credential approaches across Claude Code cloud sessions, Codex cloud, and GitHub Copilot reveals why standard dotenv setups fail remotely, and why secret injectors offer the only viable cross-platform path forward. Episode 6491 — myweirdprompts.com/n/6491 (permanent short link: myweirdprompts.com/443294) Listen on Android: MWP FM Player — myweirdprompts.com/apk