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User secrets are personal to you - your API keys, tokens, and credentials available in every environment you create. They’re ideal for personal access tokens that shouldn’t be shared with the team. User secrets have the highest precedence. They override project and organization secrets with the same name, letting you customize without affecting teammates.

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Manage user secrets

Navigate to Settings → My Account → Secrets.
User secrets settings page showing list of personal secrets with type and name columns
From here you can create, edit, and delete secrets. Each secret can be an environment variable, file, or container registry credential.

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Common user secrets

SecretPurpose
LINEAR_API_KEYPersonal Linear access
GITHUB_TOKENPersonal GitHub token
NPM_TOKENPrivate npm registry access

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When to use user vs project secrets

  • User secrets: Personal tokens, credentials you don’t want to share
  • Project secrets: Shared team credentials, service accounts, project-specific config