CodeZERO is a Vancouver-based software company developing Cordon, a credential-containment product intended to keep secrets out of the hands of applications and AI agents that use them. The company was founded in 2020, according to its LinkedIn profile; Reed Clayton is identified as CEO and co-founder, and David Shore as co-founder and COO/CFO.426
Cordon addresses a gap between credential stores and the software that consumes credentials. Rather than replacing vaults, identity providers, policy engines or security scanners, it is designed to sit between those systems and applications, agents, pipelines and development environments.24 Its approach is to intercept outbound network requests, retrieve a needed credential from an existing provider, and inject it into the request in transit, so the agent or application does not handle the credential directly.32
The product’s stated use cases include AI coding agents, where chained tool calls may require access to external services, as well as other software and development workflows. At launch, Codezero named Claude Code, Codex and Hermes as supported agents, with 1Password and macOS Keychain listed as initial credential sources.3 The company says Cordon can be enabled without code changes; its website also describes a Developer Edition available for installation.3
Codezero’s public materials describe Cordon as an additional security layer, not a replacement for existing infrastructure. The central idea is to reduce the exposure created when credentials are passed into runtime environments, where other processes or malicious code might access them.24 The available sources document the product’s launch and stated design, but do not provide independent evaluations or measured security outcomes.