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Expand Up @@ -154,7 +154,10 @@ Two things live **outside** `config`, because they are not driver-specific:

A plugin-contributed driver (`com.vendor.snowflake`) has no contract in this
repo, so its `config` is left unvalidated rather than judged against a shape the
platform does not have.
platform does not have. The platform also does not guess which of its keys hold
credentials: `config` is stored and served to administrators as written. Keeping
secrets out of it is the plugin author's responsibility; put the credential in
the bound secret (`external.credentialsRef`) instead.

<Callout type="info">
The same schemas are projected to JSON Schema for
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