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title: "Kapitan refs: Manage Secret References"
description: "Use the kapitan refs command to create, reveal, and manage encrypted secret references across all supported backends."
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# :kapitan-logo: **CLI Reference** | `kapitan refs`

## `kapitan refs`

Creates, reveals, and manages encrypted secret references (`?{backend:path}`) backed by GPG, Vault, AWS/GCP KMS, Azure KeyVault and more.

## Flags

The table below is generated from **Kapitan**'s argument parser at docs-build time, so it always matches the installed version. See also the [global flags](kapitan_flags.md) accepted by every command, and the [`.kapitan` dotfile](kapitan_dotfile.md) to set any of these permanently.

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