Question 1

What is C1 Vault?

Accepted Answer

C1 Vault is a secrets management platform that gives AI agents, workloads, and service accounts encrypted credential custody and scoped, short-lived credential issuance. It keeps durable secrets out of agent and model context while still supplying a credential at the moment of use on supported target paths.

Question 2

How is C1 Vault different from a traditional secrets manager?

Accepted Answer

A traditional secrets manager stores and releases a static value on request. C1 Vault issues a short-lived, scoped credential at the moment of use instead, evaluated against the requesting identity's policy, so no durable secret sits in a runtime, script, or model context waiting to be stolen.

Question 3

Does C1 Vault use zero-knowledge encryption?

Accepted Answer

Yes. Secrets are encrypted on the device before they reach C1, so C1 stores ciphertext and governance metadata only. C1 cannot read the plaintext value of a secret stored in a vault.

Question 4

How do AI agents get credentials without holding raw secrets?

Accepted Answer

A trusted workload exchanges its signed identity for a short-lived, scoped credential after C1 evaluates the applicable policy and grant. The durable raw secret never leaves the vault or enters the agent's or model's context.

Question 5

Does C1 Vault control what an agent can do with a credential?

Accepted Answer

No. C1 Vault governs custody and credential issuance. A separate supported target path enforces what the credential can actually do, since C1 Vault does not authorize individual tool or API calls.

C1 Vault

Secrets stay protected. Agents get only the access they need.

Keep durable secrets out of agent context

Issue short-lived credentials on demand

Govern every retrieval and membership change

Built for AI agents

Unbreakable cryptography, even by quantum computing

Built-in governance, audit, and approval flows

Audit every secret from request to retrieval

C1 solutions that meet your needs

See C1 Vault for your supported credential paths.

FAQs

C1 Vault

Built for AI agents

Unbreakable cryptography, even by quantum computing

Built-in governance, audit, and approval flows

Audit every secret from request to retrieval

See C1 Vault for your supported credential paths.

C1 Vault

Secrets stay protected. Agents get only the access they need.

Keep durable secrets out of agent context

Issue short-lived credentials on demand

Govern every retrieval and membership change

Built for AI agents

Short-lived credentials, issued at the moment of use

Keep secrets out of the model's context

Scope, pin, and expire every grant

Point your agents at the vault in minutes

Unbreakable cryptography, even by quantum computing

Encrypted end to end

Post-quantum, in the vault itself

Protect today against tomorrow's threats

Built-in governance, audit, and approval flows

Vault and replace, straight from the endpoint

Approvals and audit, like any other access

Make vaults and secrets self-service requestable

Access re-keys when membership changes

Audit every secret from request to retrieval

Know who accessed what and when

Trace the complete access decision

Review secret access with other entitlements

Investigate exceptions down to the secret

C1 solutions that meet your needs

See C1 Vault for your supported credential paths.

FAQs

What is C1 Vault?

How is C1 Vault different from a traditional secrets manager?

Does C1 Vault use zero-knowledge encryption?

How do AI agents get credentials without holding raw secrets?

Does C1 Vault control what an agent can do with a credential?

C1 Vault

Built for AI agents

Short-lived credentials, issued at the moment of use

Keep secrets out of the model's context

Scope, pin, and expire every grant

Point your agents at the vault in minutes

Unbreakable cryptography, even by quantum computing

Encrypted end to end

Post-quantum, in the vault itself

Protect today against tomorrow's threats

Built-in governance, audit, and approval flows

Vault and replace, straight from the endpoint

Approvals and audit, like any other access

Make vaults and secrets self-service requestable

Access re-keys when membership changes

Audit every secret from request to retrieval

Know who accessed what and when

Trace the complete access decision

Review secret access with other entitlements

Investigate exceptions down to the secret

See C1 Vault for your supported credential paths.