12 October 2026
Simon Willison releases alpha tool for editing files without AI seeing secrets
First reported
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- Simon Willison, a developer who writes about AI tools, released web-edit version 0.1a0, an early alpha version.
- The tool lets someone edit a file from a phone through Codex Remote without the AI model reading its contents.
- It was built to handle a credentials file, so secret values stay out of the model's hands during editing.
How it was covered
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Release announcement, the motivation of editing credentials privately from a phone, and the web-edit tool