What's next for Nionx Cloud

Nionx Cloud is young, and I want you to know where it's going. So there's now a public roadmap. It shows what works today, what I'm building now and what comes after. There are no dates on it. I'd rather ship than promise.

Where it is today

The closed beta already has the core: encrypted secrets with version history, workspaces and roles, read-only API tokens, two-factor sign-in, a password check before anything risky, and an audit log of every change and every read.

What I'm building now

Three things stand between the beta and its first testers:

• Managed key storage. The encryption keys move to AWS KMS, so stored values are protected properly outside local testing.
• Email delivery, for verification and invitation emails.
• Putting the dashboard and API online at dash.nionx.cloud for invited testers.

A command-line tool

Most of us live in the terminal, so Nionx should too. The plan is one command to connect a project:

npx nionx init

and one to start your app with its secrets loaded, without writing a .env file:

nionx run -- npm start

That's the part that would have saved me the most mistakes. The secrets go straight into the running app and never land in a file you can commit by accident.

Claude Code and other agents

After that comes a direct connection for AI tools, starting with Claude Code. An agent sees the names of the secrets a project needs and can ask for missing ones. You type the values on a trusted page, and the agent never sees them.

Trust you can check

A secrets tool asks for a lot of trust, and I'm one person. So I don't want you to take my word for it. Each of these comes with a milestone, not a date:

• The command-line tool will be open source, so you can read exactly what runs on your machine.
• The threat model and encryption design will be public for anyone to check.
• Before the open beta, an outside security review, with a public summary of what was found and fixed.
• A public status page with uptime and incidents.

All the way to 1.0

After that, the beta opens up. Anyone can sign up, and the paid plans start: Plus at $5 a month for much higher limits, and Max at $10 for heavy use. The Free plan stays. Nionx also loads secrets into GitHub Actions and popular hosting platforms. Apps on supported clouds won't even need a stored token, and the agent connection works with more tools than Claude Code. You'll be able to export your data or delete your account yourself, and backups get a restore procedure that's actually practised.

Version 1.0 is when the "testing only" label goes away: secret and key rotation, plus an Enterprise plan with single sign-on for companies.

If something on the roadmap matters to you, or something is missing, tell me on GitHub.

Benji