ToolGitleaks (community)/10 trustVerified
Gitleaks
The MIT-licensed secrets scanner — the pre-commit standard.
About
Gitleaks (gitleaks/gitleaks, MIT, ~29.9k stars) is the lightweight secrets scanner: fast, configurable, and MIT-licensed — the default pre-commit hook for catching leaked keys.
The standard for 'never commit a secret again' — add it to pre-commit and CI and stop thinking about it.
What it can do
- Fast secrets detection
- Pre-commit + CI
- Configurable rules
- MIT-licensed
- Low false positives
Setup
brew install gitleaksor download the binary.- Add to pre-commit config.
gitleaks detect --source .in CI.
Prerequisites
None.
Use cases
codeautomation
Works with
Generic APIAny agent (.md)
Trust score — 8/10
/10 trustVerified
Scored 8/10 (verified tier). ~29.9k stars, MIT, the pre-commit secrets standard. Docked for slower release cadence. Verified tier.
★ 29,878 GitHub stars
How the trust score is built
Full methodology →- Adoption · stars/downloads, log-scaled vs peers
- 8.4/10
- Maintenance · recency, releases, issue load
- 7.6/10
- Openness · license + docs
- 9.4/10
- Manual review · sanity read + red-flag check
- 8.0/10
- · 29,878 GitHub stars (log-scaled vs catalog peers)
- · last push 13d ago; 4 releases/12mo; 496 open issues
- · manual review: secrets scanner; MIT; the pre-commit standard; license: MIT
Sources
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