I don't use pass myself (I have severe NIH[1]), but its design has inspired me many times over: very, very few tools rise to the challenge of adhering to the Unix philosophy without cargo-culting it, and pass is one of them. I highly recommend that people looking to write engineer-friendly tools study its manpage[2].

[1]: https://github.com/woodruffw/kbs2

[2]: https://git.zx2c4.com/password-store/about/

> kbs2 uses the rage[1] implementation of age[2].

Symmetric encryption with an actually comprehensible CLI; thank you!

[1]: https://github.com/str4d/rage

[2]: https://github.com/FiloSottile/age