Username and password live in the local vault and the project vault, keyed by a stable app id rather than a host or port. Agents fetch one named secret or login when they need it. Lists stay metadata, and project reveals stay audit-logged. Authored By: TDvorak <[email protected]>
@primora/cli
primora - command-line client for a Primora deployment, plus a local
encrypted secrets vault and compose-stack operator commands.
Build
npm run build --workspace @primora/cli # → dist/cli.js
node dist/cli.js login # or: npx primora login once published
Auth
primora login- session sign-in against your deployment.primora login --api-key prm_…- or exportPRIMORA_API_KEY.
Context lives in ~/.config/primora/config.json; primora use picks org +
project interactively.
Commands
orgs, projects, buckets, objects (list/upload/download/rm), keys,
jobs, events:send, audit:list --follow. Every command accepts --json.
primora events:send custom.deploy.done --data '{"sha":"abc123"}'
events:send publishes a custom.* event — realtime subscribers, matching
webhooks, and event_pattern functions all fire.
primora documents:list --collection users \
--filter "status.eq.active,age.gt.18" --order "age.desc"
--filter takes comma-separated field.op.value terms — ops eq neq gt gte lt lte like in is; dotted paths index into document data (meta.city.eq.Prague),
id/created_at/updated_at are also filterable. --order is a
field.asc|field.desc list.
Vault
A local encrypted vault for secrets the CLI holds - API keys, deployment .env
values, anything you would otherwise leave in a dotfile or shell history.
primora vault init # create ~/.config/primora/vault.bin
primora secrets set STRIPE_KEY # value prompted, or --value / stdin
primora secrets set OPENAI --value sk-… --url https://platform.openai.com --notes "prod"
primora secrets import .env # import KEY=value pairs
primora secrets list # names + urls + timestamps, never values
primora secrets get STRIPE_KEY # prints the value (scriptable)
primora secrets rm STRIPE_KEY --yes
primora logins set my-app --username ada --origin http://localhost:3000
primora logins get my-app --json
primora logins list
logins is a username and password for a stable app id (my-app, a project
slug). The id is not a host or a port. origin is only the current URL.
Format: Argon2id (64 MiB / 3 / 4) → XChaCha20-Poly1305 over a single JSON payload; the parameter header is the AEAD's AAD, atomic tmp+rename writes. Clean-room implementation - compatible with nothing but itself.
Password source order: live session → PRIMORA_VAULT_PASSWORD →
--password-file → hidden prompt. PRIMORA_VAULT overrides the file
location.
Project vault (server)
--remote targets the project's server-side vault instead of the local file —
AES-256-GCM at rest in Postgres, shared with the team and the web dashboard's
Vault page. No vault password; it uses your primora login session or
PRIMORA_API_KEY.
primora secrets set STRIPE_KEY --value sk-… --remote
primora secrets list --remote # metadata only — names, urls, notes
primora secrets get STRIPE_KEY --remote # explicit reveal, audit-logged
primora secrets rm STRIPE_KEY --remote --yes
primora secrets import .env --remote --overwrite
primora logins set my-app --username ada --remote
primora logins get my-app --remote
Job payloads reference secrets as secret://NAME; the scheduler resolves them
at delivery, so payloads on disk never contain plaintext:
{"auth": "secret://STRIPE_KEY"}
Sessions
primora vault unlock --ttl 900 proves the password once, then writes a
TTL'd session key (vault.session, 0600) so agents and scripts use the
vault without ever seeing the password. primora vault lock revokes
immediately; expiry does it on its own. The session file is same-user
readable for its lifetime — that is the trade, bounded by the TTL.
Agent broker
primora agent wraps one process: the child gets dummy tokens and a
loopback base URL; the broker attaches the real secret on the wire.
primora agent --anthropic CLAUDE_KEY --openai OAI_KEY --ttl 900 -- claude
primora agent --upstream stripe=https://api.stripe.com -- npm test
Presets: anthropic, openai, openrouter, groq, deepseek, xai,
github, npm. Each flag takes a vault secret name; --upstream name=https://… adds any Bearer API (vault key <NAME>_KEY).
The child environment contains *_API_KEY=primora-brokered and a
*_BASE_URL pointing at the broker — so the tool must honor a base-URL
override. gh hardcodes api.github.com and cannot be brokered this way.
This is a base-URL broker, not a TLS MITM; no CA trust needed.
Inject
Run one process with vault secrets in its environment - nothing on disk, nothing in argv, parent shell unchanged:
primora inject -- npm run dev # all vault secrets
primora inject --env-file .env -- npm start # resolve primora:// refs
An env-file can mix literals and refs:
DATABASE_URL=postgres://localhost/app
STRIPE_KEY=primora://STRIPE_KEY
Stack
Operator surface for a compose deployment (--dir, defaults to cwd):
primora stack up # docker compose up -d
primora stack up --vault # materialize .env from the vault, remove after
primora stack status | logs [svc] | down | pull
primora stack backup # pg_dump → ./backups (storage: scripts/backup.sh)
stack up --vault refuses to overwrite an existing .env without --force
(the original is restored after the run). For a full backup including the
storage volume, scripts/backup.sh remains the tool.
For AI agents
Fetch one named value when you need it. Do not paste it into chat and do
not write it to a .env file. Lists omit passwords. Project reveals are
audit-logged. The local vault must be unlocked (primora vault unlock).
- Read —
primora_vault_get/primora secrets getfor a local secret,primora_secrets_getfor a project secret,primora_logins_get(orprimora logins get) for a username and password.remote: true/--remoteselects the project vault. - Store a login —
primora_logins_setorprimora logins set <app>. The app id is stable. Use it again when the port changes. - Wrapped —
primora agent … -- claudestill attaches API tokens on the wire for providers that honor a base-URL override. Form logins need the read path above, because the broker cannot type into a website. - Inject —
primora_vault_execstill runs an allow-listed command with a secret in its environment, for tools that read env and must not print it.