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Ask Key for Mac

Encrypted key manager for AI agents, with per-use approval and secrets hidden from the AI.

By sudoHG. Free and open source, MIT licence.

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Ask Key at a glance

Version
0.6.0
Released
7 November 2026
Download size
10 MB
Works on
Apple silicon and Intel
Licence
MIT
Category
Artificial Intelligence
Developer
sudoHG
GitHub stars
10

About Ask Key

Ask Key: the Mac key manager for AI agents. API keys stay encrypted on your Mac; Claude Code, Codex and Cursor find them over MCP, you approve each use, and the value goes only to the program, never to the AI. | 请旨：给 AI 用的 Mac 密钥管家。AI 自己找得到密钥，普通密钥直接放行，敏感密钥由你审批，密钥只交给目标程序，AI 看不到明文。

Screenshots

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How to install Ask Key on a Mac

  1. Get OpenDMG. It is a free app store for open source Mac apps. Download OpenDMG.
  2. Search for Ask Key and press Get. OpenDMG downloads version 0.6.0 from sudoHG's own GitHub release.
  3. Open it. The download is checked against its SHA-256 fingerprint and its signature is checked on your Mac before it lands in Applications.

Updates to Ask Key show up in OpenDMG and install with one button. No account is needed.

Prefer to do it by hand? The developer's file is on GitHub: AskKey.dmg (10 MB).

What is new in Ask Key 0.6.0

**Ask Key can now update itself.** · **请旨现在可以自行更新。** [English](#english) · [中文](#中文)

## English

### Added

- **In-app updates.** Ask Key can check for new versions and install them after you confirm. On the second launch it asks whether to check automatically, once a day. You can change that later with **Check for Updates Automatically** in Settings → General, and check at any time with **Check for Updates…** there or in the menu bar icon's menu.
- The update window shows what changed, in English or Simplified Chinese, following Ask Key's language setting. When a scheduled check finds an update, the window appears without taking focus; if Ask Key's notifications are allowed, one notification names the version.

### Fixed

- With the management window open, **About Ask Key** and the update windows open in front. Before, the About panel opened behind other apps' windows.
- The menu bar, the About panel, standard dialogs and the update windows follow Ask Key's language setting instead of the macOS language. After you change the setting, they switch the next time Ask Key opens; Ask Key's own windows switch at once.

### Security

- Nothing installs silently. The update feed and the update itself must carry valid signatures from Ask Key's key.
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