Git Security Scanner

Scan your git repositories for leaked secrets, credentials, and security vulnerabilities in one command. Combines gitleaks (pattern-based secret detection) and shipguard (48+ SAST rules across 7 security layers) into a unified scanner with merged reporting.

What You Get

Two Scanning Engines

Scanning Modes

What It Catches

Secrets (gitleaks + shipguard SEC rules):

• API keys (AWS, GCP, Azure, OpenAI, Anthropic, Stripe, GitHub, Slack, etc.)
• Database connection strings with embedded passwords
• SSH private keys and PEM files
• JWT tokens and session secrets
• Hardcoded passwords in config files
• .env files accidentally staged
• Credentials in comments or docstrings

Code vulnerabilities (shipguard SAST rules):

• Shell command injection (SHELL-001–009)
• Python code injection: eval(), exec(), unsafe pickle, SQL injection (PY-001–012)
• JavaScript injection: innerHTML, eval(), prototype pollution (JS-001–008)
• GitHub Actions injection: script injection, unpinned actions (GHA-001–005)
• Config issues: debug mode in production, permissive CORS, exposed admin routes (CFG-001–003)
• Supply chain: unpinned dependencies, missing lockfiles, unsigned artifacts (SC-001–006)

Output Formats

Installation

Prerequisites

# macOS
brew install gitleaks
pipx install shipguard  # or: pip install shipguard

# Linux
# gitleaks: download from https://github.com/gitleaks/gitleaks/releases
# shipguard:
pipx install shipguard

Install the Skill

clawhub install git-security-scanner

This adds the git-security-scan wrapper script and the skill definition.

Set Up Pre-Commit Hook

git-security-scan --install-hooks

This installs a pre-commit hook in the current repo that runs git-security-scan --staged-only --severity high on every commit. Commits with critical or high severity findings are blocked.

Usage

CLI

# Scan current directory
git-security-scan

# Scan a specific project
git-security-scan /path/to/project

# Pre-commit mode (staged files only, block on high+)
git-security-scan --staged-only --severity high

# Full git history audit
git-security-scan --full-history

# Generate a markdown report
git-security-scan --format markdown --output report.md

# JSON for CI pipelines
git-security-scan --format json --output .security-reports/scan.json

# Skip one engine
git-security-scan --skip-gitleaks   # shipguard only
git-security-scan --skip-shipguard  # gitleaks only

AI Assistant Prompts

Quick scan:

"Scan this repo for leaked secrets and security vulnerabilities"

Pre-commit setup:

"Set up pre-commit hooks to block secrets before they're committed"

Full history audit:

"Audit the entire git history for any credentials that were ever committed"

Custom rules:

"Add a gitleaks rule to catch hardcoded Proxmox API tokens"

Targeted scan:

"Run shipguard on just the Python files with severity high or above"

Configuration

gitleaks (.gitleaks.toml)

Create in your repo root to add custom secret patterns:

[extend]
useDefault = true

[[rules]]
id = "proxmox-api-token"
description = "Proxmox API Token"
regex = '''PVEAPIToken=[A-Za-z0-9@!]+:[A-Za-z0-9-]+'''

shipguard (.shipguard.yml)

Create in your repo root to configure SAST rules:

severity_threshold: medium
exclude_paths:
  - tests/fixtures/
  - node_modules/
  - "*.min.js"
disable_rules:
  - JS-008   # skip specific rule

Pre-commit config (.shipguard-precommit.yml)

Stricter settings for the pre-commit hook:

severity_threshold: high
exclude_paths:
  - tests/
  - docs/

Report Example

Terminal output:

============================================================
  Git Security Scan Report
============================================================
  Directory: /home/user/my-project
  Timestamp: 2026-03-19T10:30:00Z
  Tools:     gitleaks (2 findings)
             shipguard (3 findings)

  Findings: 5  critical: 1  high: 1  medium: 3

  🔴 [CRITICAL] aws-access-key-id (gitleaks)
     config/settings.py:42
     AWS access key ID detected
     > AKIAIOSFODNN7EXAMPLE
     Fix: Rotate this credential immediately. Remove from git history.

  🟠 [HIGH] SEC-003 (shipguard)
     src/api.py:18
     Hardcoded database password in connection string
     > db_url = "postgres://admin:p4ssw0rd@localhost/app"
     Fix: Use environment variables instead of hardcoded credentials.

  🟡 [MEDIUM] PY-003 (shipguard)
     src/utils.py:55
     Use of eval() with user-controlled input
     > result = eval(user_expression)
     Fix: Use ast.literal_eval() or a safe expression parser.

Remediation Workflow

When critical/high findings are detected:

1. Rotate the credential — Assume it's compromised if it was ever in git history
2. Remove from history — git filter-repo --invert-paths --path <file> or BFG Repo Cleaner
3. Add to .gitignore — Prevent re-staging of secret files
4. Use environment variables — Move secrets to .env (excluded from git) or a secret manager
5. Re-scan — Run git-security-scan --full-history to confirm the fix

Troubleshooting

Links

• gitleaks: https://github.com/gitleaks/gitleaks
• shipguard: https://github.com/celstnblacc (part of ai_spec_sec)
• License: MIT-0 (this skill) / Apache 2.0 (source tools)

Built by celstnblacc — gitleaks 8.30.0 + shipguard 0.3.2 (48+ SAST rules, 4 output formats).