How should AI agents hold private keys?

The naive answer: .env file. The real answer: don't let the agent touch the key at all.

We built a signing daemon that holds Nostr keys in Linux kernel memory (keyctl). The container gets a Unix socket -- it can sign events, but can never read or export the private key. Even a fully compromised container can't exfiltrate what it never had.

Full write-up with threat model:
https://github.com/jorgenclaw/nanoclaw/blob/main/docs/key-safety-report.md

Also shipped this week as open-source NanoClaw skills:
- White Noise / Marmot channel (decentralized E2EE via MLS+Nostr): https://github.com/qwibitai/nanoclaw/pull/1021
- Signal messenger channel (signal-cli JSON-RPC daemon pattern): https://github.com/qwibitai/nanoclaw/pull/1023

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