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AI-generatedauth-source lookup behavior and prompting in non-interactive sessions
Credential Lookup Policy Emacs auth-source supports pluggable backends for secrets, allowing a dedicated test store to be used for integration testing without production credentials. Lookup order is governed by auth-sources and preferred backends. Backend Fallback Uncertainty When a requested secret is absent, behavior is backend dependent. Some backends ret