Stash House: Local Credential Hygiene and Encrypted Stewardship

        As developer environments increase in complexity, local credential sprawl has become a primary vector for authority loss. Project Stash House introduces a multi-layer framework for reconstituting disciplined secret use under conditions of local disorder. By moving beyond passive detection, we propose a model of "Authority Recovery" that bridges local workstation hygiene with decentralized transport layers (Nostr) and federated identity brokers (FOKS). This paper explores the "Materialization Boundary"—the critical transition point where encrypted, stored authority becomes live runtime authority—and validates a hybrid architecture that integrates enterprise standards like Kerberos and LDAP with sovereign, distributed backends.