The best defense against secrets leaking from your code is for them not to be in your code to start with. To help with this, we've introduced secret references, and 1Password for VS Code is built with them in mind. Secret references sync automatically with 1Password and remove the risk of exposing plaintext secrets in code. With 1Password for VS Code you can detect secrets as you work, save them into 1Password, and retrieve secrets stored in your vaults.