Shelve
The facts below are what the maker publishes about Shelve, checked and dated. Our editors have not written about it yet.
Plans and prices
From Shelve's own pricing page, checked 11 Oct 2026.
| Plan | Price | What it gives you |
|---|---|---|
| Hosted | Free | No hard environment variable limits currently · reasonable use expected; not for large file storage · Currently free; no payment processing or billing |
| Self-hosted | Free | You manage your own deployment, encryption key, database, and audit trail · Open source and free to self-host |
The facts
Each one read from Shelve's own pages, with the date it was checked.
What it does
- AI coding agents
- The CLI can create ignore files for coding agents and inject variables into a process without writing them to disk.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Audit logs
- Shelve records security-relevant actions with actor, IP, user agent, and resource context, and says hosted audit logs are retained indefinitely.checked 11 Oct 2026
- CLI
- Its CLI can inject secrets into a process at runtime and push or pull secrets between a local project and Shelve.checked 11 Oct 2026
- CLI account limit
- The CLI supports one account at a time, and switching accounts requires logging out and back in.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Encryption
- Shelve describes per-project envelope encryption using AES-256-GCM, with each project’s data key sealed by a platform key.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Environments
- Shelve supports development, preview, production, and custom environments.checked 11 Oct 2026
- GitHub integration
- Shelve can sync selected variables to selected repositories as GitHub secrets for use in GitHub Actions and CI/CD pipelines.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Other integrations
- The documentation lists one-click deployment using Coolify and email OTP plus GitHub and Google OAuth authentication.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Purpose
- Shelve is an open-source platform for managing environment variables and secrets across development teams.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Service availability
- The terms say Shelve makes no availability guarantees and provides email support on a best-effort basis.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Support
- The maker lists GitHub issues and [email protected] for support and contributions.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Transport security
- The encryption documentation says traffic to the hosted app uses TLS 1.3; self-hosted deployments should configure HTTPS at their proxy or platform.checked 11 Oct 2026
The company
- Maker
- The maker’s site identifies Hugo Richard as the service provider; the terms specify France as the legal jurisdiction.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Team access
- Teams can use role-based access controls, and API tokens can be scoped to teams, projects, environments, and permissions.checked 11 Oct 2026
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