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cloak is a Command Line OTP Authenticator published by Evans Murithi that generates time-based one-time passwords directly inside a terminal window, eliminating the need for graphical authenticator apps when managing multi-factor authentication for cloud accounts, APIs, or SSH gateways. Released in version 0.2.0, the lightweight open-source tool stores TOTP secrets locally in an encrypted JSON file and produces six-digit codes that refresh every thirty seconds, letting system administrators, DevOps engineers, and security-minded users paste credentials into browsers, CI pipelines, or remote-login prompts without leaving the keyboard. Typical use cases include scripting secure deployments that require MFA tokens, signing in to GitHub, GitLab, Google Cloud, AWS, or Azure from headless servers, and quickly fetching codes for dozens of registered services through fuzzy search and tab completion. Because the utility runs on any Windows machine with Python, it integrates effortlessly with PowerShell, WSL, or traditional CMD sessions and can be aliased inside batch files or Ansible playbooks for automated authentication flows. cloak belongs to the Security & VPN software category and, despite being the first public release, already supports QR-code import, base32 secret encoding, and customizable time skew to keep generated codes in sync with remote servers. The software is available for free on get.nero.com, with downloads provided via trusted Windows package sources such as winget, always delivering the latest version, and supporting batch installation of multiple applications.
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