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Document storing identities in a password manager - #746

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Summary

  • Adds a short "Storing identities in a password manager" section to the README, covering the pattern of piping an identity from a password manager CLI into age -d -i -.
  • Mentions materializing to a temporary file (with a cleanup trap) for tools like SOPS that need an identity file path rather than stdin.
  • Uses a purpose-scoped key name in the example, per the discussion on the issue.

This is docs-only, no code changes — both patterns already work with the existing -i - support.

Fixes #722

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https://claude.ai/code/session_019dHe95FDNgtHdZk7uEDbdc

Add a short README section covering the pattern of piping an age
identity from a password manager (e.g. 1Password, Bitwarden, pass)
via -i -, and materializing to a temp file for tools like SOPS that
require an identity file path.

Fixes FiloSottile#722

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_019dHe95FDNgtHdZk7uEDbdc
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Docs: example workflow for storing age identities in a password manager (Bitwarden / 1Password / etc.)

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