secret-leak-detector

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SKILL.md

Secret Leak Detector

Purpose and Intent

The secret-leak-detector is designed to safeguard repositories by identifying hardcoded sensitive information such as API keys, database credentials, and authentication tokens before they are committed or after they have been accidentally pushed to history.

When to Use

  • Pre-commit Checks: Run this skill before committing changes to ensure no secrets are being introduced.
  • CI/CD Pipelines: Integrate into automated pipelines to block builds that contain plain-text secrets.
  • Legacy Audits: Use with scan_history: true to perform a deep audit of a project's entire history to find secrets that were deleted but still exist in git logs.

When NOT to Use

  • Production Logs: This tool is for source code and config files; it is not optimized for scanning terabytes of runtime logs.
  • Binary Files: It will not effectively detect secrets inside compiled binaries or encrypted blobs.

Input and Output Examples

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