During February 2026, Bake Earmuffs focused on improving the reliability and security of Docker-based asset builds in the aws/aws-cdk-cli repository. By addressing a critical bug in secret propagation for the legacy synthesizer, Bake ensured that build secrets defined with DockerImageCode.fromImageAsset were correctly passed to docker build commands. This fix, implemented using TypeScript and leveraging AWS CDK and Docker, eliminated a common source of deployment failures and enhanced secure secret management practices. The work maintained backward compatibility with existing workflows, demonstrating careful attention to user expectations while strengthening the underlying DevOps processes and improving reproducibility across diverse deployment environments.