Scrt: A CLI secret manager for developers, sysadmins and DevOps (opens in new tab)

One of the first tasks I had for Claude was to build a protected KV store out of keepassx.cli. Out of the box I got a beautiful gui for seeding initial secrets while giving me a nice scriptable, non-interactive tool for injecting secrets into infrastructure bootstrapping.

"also" is a strong word for a project this young. It was started in October 2025, does not have any issues (at all) and is completely vibe coded. Not starting a discussion about security & vibe coding now, but I wouldn't blindly recommend such a nascent project if compared to something mature like SOPS.

SOPS is simple? You are kidding me. Pass from https://www.passwordstore.org/ fame is simple. SOPS is ultra-complicated for a security tool.

Really? That's surprising. I guess if you mostly used it on servers or if you used default GNOME/KDE you might not run into it. It was the go-to screenshot tool for anyone using openbox, i3, most small WMs. A more universal tool than whatever DE-specific thing GNOME would use. You run it from the CLI, but commonly you'd bind a key to run your one-liner(s) of choice. Commonly used to do crop-style screenshots similar to what macOS binds to cmd-shift-4. Tons of people I know were using it for years. It was somewhat overtaken by maim in later years, and then on Wayland replaced by slurp/grim, but I still call screenshots "scrots" a lot of the time.

Same. First time hearing about scrot.