Sieve – scans Cursor/Claude chat history for leaked API keys

Background: I was using Cursor to set up an OpenAI integration.The agent read my .env file, added the key to the config, and everything worked. What I didn't think about: that key was now sitting in a plaintext SQLite database at ~/Library/ApplicationSupport/Cursor/User/workspaceStorage/..AI coding tools (Cursor, Claude Code, Copilot, Cline) routinely read .env files as part of normal operation. Every secret they touch gets embedded in their local transcript/state files — unencrypted, outside .g...

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