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24 alternatives to VaultGuard

Per-file permissions for your AI knowledge-base in Obsidian

Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Prices are shown for the 1 we have checked on their own sites, 1 of them free or with a free tier.

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    A few months ago I noticed that I was quickly approaching my 10GB sync limit for my daily driver vault. I considered deprecating some of the heavier files and images, but I was worried how it would affect the integrity of my vault. Instead, I took the opportunity to think to myself -- what would the perfect vault look like? I began to write down some of the key philosophies and strategies I use in my driver vault which led to indispensable plugins, which led to more indispensable philosophies and on and on it went. I've chronicled these results into a fully working vault template that…

    2022 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Hey HN! Today we're launching Agent Vault - an open source HTTP credential proxy and vault for AI agents. Repo is at https://github.com/Infisical/agent-vault, and there's an in-depth description at https://infisical.com/blog/agent-vault-the-open-source-crede.... We built Agent Vault in response to a question that been plaguing the industry: How do we give agents secure access to services without them reading any secrets? Most teams building agents have run into this exact problem: They build an agent or agentic system and come to realize at some point…

    Apr 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    I built Vault-AI to solve a problem I kept running into when building AI apps: API keys and secrets end up scattered in .env files, hardcoded, or shared insecurely. Vault-AI is a lightweight, self-hosted secrets manager — kind of like HashiCorp Vault, but simplified and aimed at AI workloads. It runs in Docker, comes with a simple CLI, and manages tenants, token-based auth, secret rotation, rollback, version history, and audit logs. Quickstart: git clone → ./start.sh → vault-ai store/get Repo: https://gitlab.com/vaultaiproject/vault-ai.git Would love feedback…

    Jul 2026 · ps-aditya.github.io · its alternatives →

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    Manage your whole life in Obsidian

    2023 · linkingyourthinking.com · its alternatives →

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    Vault▲283

    Automatically save for retirement every time you’re paid

    2017 · its alternatives →

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    enject: Hide .env secrets from prAIng eyes: secrets live in local encrypted stores (per project) and are injected directly into apps at runtime, never touching disk as plaintext. - GreatScott/enject

    Feb 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Zero-knowledge vault - secure files, share on your terms

    2025 · safetrigger.app · its alternatives →

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    Kept▲104

    Your AI chats, saved as Markdown locally with no cloud

    May 2026 · kept.work · its alternatives →

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    We built OneCLI because AI agents are being given raw API keys. And it's going about as well as you'd expect. We figured the answer isn't "don't give agents access," it's "give them access without giving them secrets." OneCLI is an open-source gateway that sits between your AI agents and the services they call. You store your real credentials once in OneCLI's encrypted vault, and give your agents placeholder keys. When an agent makes an HTTP call through the proxy, OneCLI matches the request by host/path, verifies the agent should have access, swaps the placeholder for the real…

    Mar 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Calderafree▲195

    Your Obsidian vault as a living profile and linked garden

    9d ago · caldera.social · its alternatives →

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    Quickly format your notes with ChatGPT in Obsidian - different-ai/obsidian-ava

    2023 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Manage your whole life in Obsidian

    2025 · linkingyourthinking.com · its alternatives →

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    Protect your company passwords securely from attacks.

    2017 · vaultone.com · its alternatives →

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    Here's something I realized: the most AI-native knowledge base isn't a SaaS product with an API. It's a folder of markdown files on your disk. Obsidian stores everything as plain .md files. That means Claude Code (or any AI tool) can grep, read, write, and traverse your entire knowledge base with zero setup. No API keys. No OAuth. No middleware. Just local file I/O. The only missing piece was sync. I wanted my vault on iPhone (iCloud), on Mac (local), and on GitHub (backup + version history) — without paying $4/mo for Obsidian Sync. cc-md is ~400 lines of bash. iCloud handles Apple…

    Feb 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Shared vault for files humans and AI agents

    Aug 2026 · vault.wilgott.com · its alternatives →

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    Private AI chat & semantic search for Obsidian notes

    Feb 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Keeper is an embeddable secret store (Argon2id, XChaCha20-Poly1305 by default). Four security levels, audit chains, crash-safe rotation. Vault is overkill for most use cases. This is for when you ge paranoid about env and need encrypted local storage that doesn't suck. No security through obscurity, hence, It's still early, so now's the best time to find weird edge cases, race conditions, memory leaks, crypto misuse, anything that breaks. The README has a full security model breakdown if you want to get adversarial.

    Apr 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Let AI navigate your Obsidian vault as a GRAPH, not files

    Jul 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Hi all, author here. SX started as a CLI to let developers share skills across AI clients without having to rely on git for storage. This allowed sharing at the Repo/Team/Org and Personal level. However, the more we spoke to users the more we realized that non-technical users were actually using skills more and more but they had no way to share. And there was no way you were going to get your legal team to install and learn git. SX 2.0 is targeting non-technical teams by adding a native Mac, Windows and Linux app. Our vault format was reworked so it can be used directly as a claude…

    Jul 2026 · sleuth-io.github.io · its alternatives →

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    Local-first MCP mini-vault: let AIs call external APIs without ever seeing your keys. - RachidChabane/mcp-secrets-vault

    2025 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    All Paths. One Vault.

    2025 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    An Obsidian vault your AI agents actually run

    Jun 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Private Offline AI, Secure Data Storage, and Safe Browser

    Jul 2026 · infinityvaultz.com · its alternatives →

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