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Forkbench vs Infisical Agent Proxy
Infisical Agent Proxy is a secrets broker you deploy: agents route traffic through it and it swaps a dummy credential for the real one.
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Infisical Agent Proxy is a broker you deploy and point your agents at. Forkbench's Vault needs no deployment: put a key in once and your agents run the commands that need it without ever seeing the value. The same app locks each job to its folders, shows you every agent live and keeps sign-off with you.
A proxy is a great answer for a fleet of agents on servers. For the agents on your own machine, the protection should just be there.
| Forkbench | Infisical Agent Proxy | |
|---|---|---|
| Agents locked to your project folders | Yes. The macOS kernel seals off the rest of your home folder, per Thread | Not part of it |
| API keys the agent never sees | Yes. The Vault runs the command and the agent only gets the result | Swaps a dummy credential at the proxy |
| Every agent at a glance | Yes. A live pulse on every tab and the task each agent claimed | Not part of it |
| Know when an agent is stuck | Instantly. It turns red and the Thread counts who needs you | Not part of it |
| Share one job with a teammate or client | Yes. Invite them to one Thread, never your machine | Machine identities and org roles |
| Human sign-off before work counts as done | Always. Agents report, only you accept | Not part of it |
| Works with | Any CLI agent: Claude Code, Codex, Cursor CLI, Gemini CLI, Aider, your own scripts | Anything that honours HTTPS_PROXY |
| Price | Free | Free tier for static secrets; paid per identity |
Why developers pick Forkbench
- Zero setup: no proxy, no identities to configure.
- Kernel folder lock around the same job.
- Supervision, needs-you flag and sign-off.
- Share one job with a teammate, keys included, without sending a value.
What Infisical Agent Proxy does well
- Serves agents across a whole network.
- A full secrets platform underneath.
The verdict
A broker deployed in front of a fleet of server-side agents is exactly the job Infisical Agent Proxy does. For the agent running on your own laptop, that is infrastructure you do not need: Forkbench's Vault needs no deployment, and the same app adds a folder lock, a live view of every agent and sign-off that stays with you.
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