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+apiVersion: secrets.infisical.com/v1beta1
+kind: InfisicalStaticSecret
+metadata:
+  name: researchowl-secrets
+  namespace: researchowl
+spec:
+  # Shared, read-only machine identity (no write grant, no PushSecret).
+  # Source is the /researchowl folder (this bot's own creds: Anthropic, both Ghost
+  # admin keys, the interactive bot token 079fa1a0 — NOT the notify bot — and the
+  # access allowlist). Infisical key names already match the deployment's
+  # secretKeyRef.key values (lowercase-hyphenated), so this is straight passthrough.
+  infisicalAuthRef:
+    name: infisical-auth
+    namespace: infisical-operator
+  sources:
+    - projectId: 17e98e9d-70f5-43d1-8382-7da818dfcdd0   # project "homelab"
+      environmentSlug: prod
+      secretPath: /researchowl
+  syncOptions:
+    refreshInterval: 60s
+  targets:
+    - kind: Secret
+      name: researchowl-secrets-infisical      # parallel name — old secret stays live until 3c
+      namespace: researchowl
+      creationPolicy: Owner
+      # key passthrough: synced Secret carries the 5 lowercase-hyphenated keys verbatim
+      # (anthropic-api-key, ghost-api-key, ghost-api-key-en, telegram-allowed-users, telegram-bot-token)