Warden fails closed on any child stdout or stderr, even on success.
The previous helper echoed status and prompted for BAO_TOKEN after
the login envelope had already unset it. Use the contained
.vault-token helper, write Kubernetes Secret from a file, and persist
only metadata evidence.
Assistant: grok
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The 768h orphan token in external-secrets/openbao-audit-core-eso-token
expired at 2026-09-14T10:23Z and ClusterSecretStore lookup-self is 403,
so ESO cannot mint database/creds/audit-core-runtime. Recreate the
Kubernetes Secret without last-applied-configuration so the token is
not stored in annotation metadata.
Assistant: grok
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