Secrets rotated
before they expire.
Every team forgets to rotate keys until something breaks. Manual rotation is brittle and skipped; automated rotation is brittle and feared. A Loomal agent owns the rotation loop end-to-end — pulls the credentials, generates new keys, updates downstream systems, stores the new value, and emails the team.
API Primitives used
vault_listFind expiring keys
Agent scans the vault for credentials with upcoming expiry dates and queues them for rotation.
vault_storeStore the new value
Once a new key is generated, agent stores it in the same vault entry, retiring the old ciphertext.
mail_sendNotify the team
Successful rotations get reported to the security team from the ops identity with timing and downstream updates.
Manual rotation never happens.
Every security team has a rotation schedule. Almost none of them stick to it. Rotation is tedious — log into each provider, generate a new key, update every service that uses it, hope nothing breaks. The work is dangerous (one wrong update breaks production) and thankless (nobody notices when it goes right). So it gets skipped.
An agent can do the work consistently. With access to every service credential and the downstream systems that consume them, rotation runs as a deterministic loop: generate, update, store, notify.
How to build it.
vault_listFind expiring keys
Agent scans vault entries for keys approaching expiry and queues them for rotation.
Rotate at the source
Agent logs into the provider, generates a new key, and updates every downstream service that consumes it.
vault_storeStore and confirm
Agent overwrites the vault entry with the new value, destroys the old ciphertext, and emails the team with the rotation summary.
Example prompt
“Every Sunday, scan the vault for any API key expiring in the next 14 days. Rotate each one at the provider, update our downstream services, store the new value, and email me a summary.”
What security teams build.
Scheduled rotation
Agent rotates every credential on a defined cycle, eliminating the human-driven schedule drift.
Compromise response
When a credential is suspected compromised, agent rotates immediately and notifies the team.
Multi-service updates
Agent updates every system that depends on a rotated credential to prevent outages.
Audit-grade logging
Every rotation is logged with timestamp, agent identity, and the downstream services updated.
Failure rollback
If a downstream update fails, agent rolls back the rotation and pages the on-call.
Why rotation needs an agent identity.
Secrets rotation is the textbook task that humans should never do. It's repetitive, error-prone, and unforgiving — and the consequences of skipping it are quietly compounding security debt. The right answer is to give it to an agent that runs it consistently.
Loomal makes that agent possible. The vault holds every credential encrypted, the agent has the downstream credentials too, and every rotation is logged in the same delegation chain. Security teams stop carrying the rotation schedule in their heads.
All credentials encrypted
Both the rotated credentials and the downstream service credentials live in AES-256-GCM vault entries.
Per-rotation audit
Every rotation logs the affected entries, downstream updates, and timing.
Revoke instantly
If the rotation agent itself is compromised, revoke the identity to halt every rotation in flight.
Take rotation off your security team.
Generate, update, and store — fully autonomous.