Your Claude application’s API keys are kept in a secrets manager. The team is considering whether to use the same key in development, staging, and production. How should the keys be handled across environments?
A Use a single development key everywhere on the grounds that production keys are too risky to deploy across the application's three environments during normal operation. B Use distinct keys for each environment so a compromise in one environment does not affect the others during normal operation across the application’s lifecycle. C Rotate the same key across environments at random intervals on the grounds that random rotation provides isolation between environments without requiring distinct keys. D Use the same key across all environments for simplicity and treat the propagation of any compromise as a known operational tradeoff for the team's key management approach. Show Answer Answer Explanation Each environment should use its own API key. Environment-specific credentials isolate compromise, revocation, auditing, permissions, and rotation, so exposure in development or staging does not grant access to production. Anthropic documentation also recommends creating a dedicated API key for direct API use and storing it securely.
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