SecretSpec 0.13: SDKs for Python, Node.js, Go, Ruby, and Haskell

Jul 3, 2026

SecretSpec separates what secrets an application needs, declared in secretspec.toml, from where the values live, a provider like your system keyring, 1Password, or Vault. Until now, reading those resolved secrets at runtime meant the CLI or the Rust SDK. If your service was written in Python or Go, you shelled out to secretspec run or reimplemented resolution yourself.

SecretSpec 0.13 closes that gap. It ships native SDKs for five languages: Python, Node.js / TypeScript, Go, Ruby, and Haskell. Each resolves the exact secrets your manifest declares, through the same providers, profiles, fallback chains, and generators as the CLI, with no per-language configuration.

Native bindings over one resolver

Every SDK is a thin client over the same Rust core that powers the CLI. No provider logic, profile resolution, chain fallback, as_path materialization, or secret generation lives in the binding. A provider added to SecretSpec works in every language the day it lands, and every SDK behaves identically.

The binding strategy is chosen per ecosystem:

Python: a pyo3 extension, statically linked, shipped as a self-contained cp39-abi3 wheel.
Node.js: a napi-rs addon with prebuilt per-platform packages.
Ruby: a native C extension (mkmf) with the resolver statically linked into a platform gem.
Go: the secretspec-ffi C ABI loaded at runtime via purego (no cgo).
Haskell: the same C ABI, linked at build time through the Haskell FFI.

The same three steps, in your language

Each SDK mirrors the vocabulary of the Rust derive crate: a builder that takes a provider, a profile, and an access reason, then load() to resolve, then a map of secrets you can read or export into the environment.

# Python
from secretspec import SecretSpec

resolved = (
    SecretSpec.builder()
    .with_provider("keyring://")
    .with_profile("production")
    .with_reason("boot web app")
    .load()
)
print(resolved.secrets["DATABASE_URL"].get)  # value, or file path for as_path
resolved.set_as_env()                         # export into os.environ

// Node.js / TypeScript
const { SecretSpec } = require('secretspec');

const resolved = SecretSpec.builder()
  .withProvider('keyring://')
  .withProfile('production')
  .withReason('boot web app')
  .load();
console.log(resolved.secrets.DATABASE_URL.get()); // value, or as_path file path
resolved.setAsEnv();                              // export into process.env

// Go
resolved, err := secretspec.New().
    WithProvider("keyring://").
    WithProfile("production").
    WithReason("boot web app").
    Load()
fmt.Println(resolved.Secrets["DATABASE_URL"].Get()) // value, or as_path file path
resolved.SetAsEnv()                                 // export into the environment

# Ruby
resolved = Secretspec::SecretSpec.builder
                                 .with_provider("keyring://")
                                 .with_profile("production")
                                 .with_reason("boot web app")
                                 .load
puts resolved.secrets["DATABASE_URL"].get # value, or as_path file path
resolved.set_as_env!                      # export into ENV

-- Haskell
resolved <-
  S.load
    ( S.builder
        & S.withProvider "keyring://"
        & S.withProfile "production"
        & S.withReason "boot web app"
    )
S.setAsEnv resolved -- export into the environment

Across all of them, load() resolves every declared secret, a missing required secret raises a typed MissingRequiredError, and as_path secrets come back as a readable file path with a cleanup that removes the backing temp file. The access reason feeds the same audit log and require_reason policy from 0.12, so a Go service is as accountable as the CLI.

Write your own binding

Under all five SDKs sits a new crate, secretspec-ffi: a small, versioned C ABI for resolving secrets. If we do not ship your language yet, you can bind to it directly. It also exposes the public Rust building blocks the SDKs share, Secrets::resolve() and Secrets::report(), so a Rust program reaches the same value-carrying and value-free entry points.

Typed secrets, one schema for every language

secretspec.toml already knows the shape of your secrets, so 0.13 can hand that shape to your type system. secretspec schema emits a JSON Schema for your manifest, the union of all profiles or one profile with --profile. Pipe it through quicktype to generate idiomatic typed classes in any language, then populate them from each SDK’s fields() map:

secretspec schema | quicktype -s schema --top-level SecretSpec --lang python -o secrets_gen.py

typed = Secrets.from_dict(resolved.fields())
print(typed.database_url)  # typed str

One schema drives every language’s type system, with no hand-written emitter per language.

Install

pip install secretspec                              # Python
npm install secretspec                              # Node.js / TypeScript
gem install secretspec                              # Ruby
go get github.com/cachix/secretspec/secretspec-go   # Go

For Haskell, add secretspec from Hackage to your build-depends. The CLI and Rust SDK upgrade as usual:

cargo install secretspec

See the SDK overview for the per-language guides. Questions or feedback? Join us on Discord.