age-agent

[VWoloszczuk]

Is there a plan to develop a generic agent for age, which caches secrets for a user-defined period of time, similar to gpg-agent or ssh-agent? My only complaint with passage is having to type in my password several times in a short window.

I have seen that some other projects (seniorpw, pago) have their own agents, perhaps one of these could be adapted into a standalone tool?

Apologies if this is already a settled issue, but I didn't find much info about it.

[tejing1]

Rather than implementing an "official" age-agent, I would recommend age implement the plugin side of its own plugin protocol. That would drastically reduce the difficulty of writing 3rd party agent-like programs, allowing competing options to exist. All the agent itself would really need to do is facilitate communication between the 2 instances of age and supply the identities securely to the age-as-age-plugin instance.

It just seems far more in line with the project's goals to do it this way.