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superfly/tokenizer

HTTP proxy that injects 3rd party credentials into requests

▲ 3 hackers recommend Go ★ 504 Apache-2.0

Recommended between 2026-02-03 and 2026-08-05. Last pushed 2026-10-30.

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“Could you not use something like https://github.com/superfly/tokenizer for AWS?”

— evertheylen, 2026-08-05 · original comment on Hacker News ↗

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Could you not use something like https://github.com/superfly/tokenizer for AWS? They list it as an explicit example, but I have little experience with AWS.

“See tokenizer[0] by the fly.io team, which makes it a stateless service for eg - no database or dashboard.”

— captn3m0, 2026-03-12 · original comment on Hacker News ↗

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This problem+solution, like many others in the agentic-space, have nothing agent-specific. Giving a "box" API keys was always considered a risk, and auth-proxying has existed as a solution forever. See tokenizer[0] by the fly.io team, which makes it a stateless service for eg - no database or dashboard. Or the buzzfeed SSO proxy, which lets you do the same via an OAuth2-dance at the frontend, and a upstream config at the backend which injects secrets: https://github.com/buzzfeed/sso/blob/549155a64d6c5f8916ed909cfa4e340734056284/docs/sso_config.md?plain=1#L10-L25 . [0]: https://github.com/superfly/tokenizer

“Reminds me a little of Fly's Tokenizer - https://github.com/superfly/tokenizer”

— motrm, 2026-02-03 · original comment on Hacker News ↗

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Reminds me a little of Fly's Tokenizer - https://github.com/superfly/tokenizer It's a little HTTP proxy that your application can route requests through, and the proxy is what handles adding the API keys or whatnot to the request to the service, rather than your application, something like this for example: Application -> tokenizer -> Stripe The secrets for the third party service should in theory then be safe should there be some leak or compromise of the application since it doesn't know the actual secrets itself. Cool idea!

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