Getting started

Sablefort Keyvault is a secrets manager for teams. It keeps the credentials your team depends on — logins, API keys, deploy tokens, secure notes — encrypted on your device and organized into vaults you can reach in a click. This guide gets you from a fresh install to using your first secret in a few minutes.

What Keyvault is

Keyvault has three core ideas you will see everywhere in the app:

• Items — a single secret and its details, such as a login, an API key, or a secure note.
• Vaults — a container that holds related items. You have a personal vault, and your team gives you access to shared vaults.
• Sharing — the permissions that decide who can see, use, or change the items in a vault.

Everything is encrypted on your device before it syncs, so only you and the people you share with can read your secrets. See the Security model for details.

Signing in

When you open Keyvault for the first time, sign in with your Sablefort account:

1. Launch the desktop app.
2. Enter your organization's sign-in address (for example acme.sablefort.com) and your email.
3. Complete any second-factor or single sign-on step your company requires. If your org uses SSO, you will be sent to your identity provider — see Single sign-on.
4. Enter your master password. This unlocks your vaults on this device and is never sent to Sablefort.

Opening a vault

After you unlock, the sidebar on the left lists every vault you can access. Your personal vault is at the top, followed by the shared vaults your team has granted you.

1. Select a vault, such as Engineering, to see its items.
2. Use the search box at the top to filter by name, tag, or website across every vault you can see.
3. Select an item to open it and view its fields.

Copying and autofilling an item

Most of the time you just need one field — a password, a token, or a URL. Keyvault makes that a single action.

Copy a field

Open an item and select the copy icon next to any field. The value is placed on your clipboard and automatically cleared after a short time so it does not linger.

Autofill in the browser

Install the Sablefort browser extension and sign in with the same account. When you land on a login page, the extension offers matching items:

1. Select the Sablefort icon in the page's username field, or press the autofill shortcut.
2. Choose the matching item — for example a Deploy Key login for your internal dashboard.
3. Keyvault fills the username and password and submits if you allow it.

A quick example

Say your team keeps a shared deploy token in the Engineering vault. To use it:

1. Search for Deploy Key.
2. Open the item and copy the token field.
3. Paste it where you need it — the clipboard clears itself moments later.

That is the whole loop: find the item, use the field, move on. When you are ready to add your own secrets, head to Items & fields.

Next steps

• Installation — set up the app on every platform your team uses.
• Vaults — organize your secrets into personal and shared vaults.
• Sharing & permissions — give teammates the right level of access.