Protect Your API Keys: Evaluating AI Tools Like Bifrost and Caveman

A practical guide on safeguarding API keys when using third-party AI tools, with a look at how Caveman and Bifrost approach security and where they fit into a developer’s stack. We live in a world of plugins, extensions, and gateways promising to make AI agents smarter, faster, and cheaper. That sounds good until you remember what these tools sometimes need access to. API keys. Local files. Project notes. CLI sessions. Model provider configs. Sometimes even MCP tools that can read or write insid