Catching the secret before the commit, not after the audit
The cheapest place to catch a hardcoded secret is before it is ever committed. On false-positive fatigue and why scanners get muted, the gap between looks-like-a-key and is-this-key-live, and how I built leakferret to classify, verify, and rewrite secrets in the editor, the pre-commit hook, and the AI agent itself.
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