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The part of #22 that does not need dashboard access. This does not close #22: rotating the leaked Neon password and revoking the retired Stack Auth key can only be done by the repository owner, and nothing in this PR records that as done.

  • SECURITY_NOTICE.md is now an owner runbook. It is an ordered checklist with blank "done on" cells and states plainly that rotation is not recorded. The Neon step is a staged rotation (new role, update Vercel, redeploy, smoke test, then revoke the old role) so production stays up. It lists what leaked by service (no values), which items are public by design, how exposed they were, the git-history options, and how the owner confirms the old credential is dead from their own machine.
  • CI secret scan. A new Secret scan job (contents: read, persist-credentials: false, full-depth checkout) runs node scripts/check-secrets.mjs on the tree, and also --range base..head over every commit in the PR or push, so a secret added and then removed inside a PR is still caught. It is dependency-free and reports only file, line and rule, never the matched text. An unresolvable base or shallow clone exits 2 (incomplete); it never falls back to the full-history audit. The existing Lint · Test · Build job is unchanged. An owner-only --history mode shows which commits carry hits; CI does not run it.
  • Docs that told developers to paste real values into the tracked env files (docs/ENVIRONMENT_VARIABLES.md, CLAUDE.md, app/.env.example) now point to the untracked app/.env.development.local, with a guarded cp.

What the history inventory found

Done by an agent on a full mirror of the public repo, deleted afterwards. No value was printed, stored or used.

  • The credentials were introduced in 1eef6e2 (2025-12-16) and removed from main in 0d36e57 (2026-03-28). The earlier note in Verify/rotate credentials exposed in git history and record the outcome #22 naming a51ef33 was wrong: that is only the oldest commit a shallow clone shows.
  • Neon Postgres owner-role connection string: secret, and Neon is still the production database. This is the urgent item.
  • Stack Auth secret server key: secret, but unused by the code since Move auth to Firebase #63. The project ID and publishable client key are public by design.
  • A weak hardcoded JWT_SECRET fallback existed in an old server/server.js. It is also at the tip of tag v1.0.0.
  • The values are still at the tip of 8 branches and in 12 PR refs. Assume they were copied.

Decision for you: how big should the scanner be?

The scanner started as a small script and is now about 3,200 lines with about 4,400 lines of tests. The growth came from review: Codex reviewed every push and found real bypasses in seven rounds, and CodeQL found a real exponential-backtracking bug in the scanner's own path matching (fixed in d1d33e3). Each finding was reproduced with fake values, fixed as a class, and given a regression test. Round 7 added lockfile scanning, the commit-range mode, XML config semantics and about 20 more provider token families. The last rounds found mostly sibling shapes of the same few classes, and the fail-open paths (an incomplete scan reporting success) are closed.

It will keep drawing findings, because a pattern scanner is never finished. Two options:

  1. Merge as is. It works today, it is fail-closed, and every known gap is documented. You accept owning a large heuristic.
  2. Replace it with a maintained tool (for example gitleaks) and keep only the runbook, the staged rotation and the docs fixes. Much less code to own, and better pattern coverage, at the cost of a third-party tool in CI.

GitHub push protection is already active on this account and blocked one of my own test fixtures during this work, so it is doing the provider-token job. Tell me which way you want to go and I will do it.

Scanner design (highlights)

  • Rules: URL passwords (including ${VAR:-literal}), credential files (.netrc, .npmrc, .aws/credentials, kubeconfig and similar), webhook URLs, secret-named assignments and name/value pairs in any order, XML-family config, lockfile credentials (integrity digests ignored), and provider tokens.
  • Passphrases and prose: quoted passphrases with spaces are judged whole; sentences of common words are exempt only in message-catalog paths or when they read as documentation.
  • It fails closed. Any tracked file it cannot read exits non-zero, non-UTF-8 filenames are scanned, symlinks are scanned as their target text, staged and working-tree copies are both scanned when they differ, and --history/--range print INCOMPLETE and exit 2 if anything was skipped.
  • Hostile input is bounded, both file contents and file paths, with the path tests run in a killable child process.

Known gaps, also listed in SECURITY_NOTICE.md: a $(...) URL password containing spaces, Makefile function forms such as $(or $(X),literal), and a jwt.sign(...) with more than 300 characters before the key. The scanner runs from the PR's own checkout, so a PR that edits scripts/check-secrets.mjs or the workflow is judged by its own version: review those two files by hand. It cannot see a value that never entered a commit. It is a heuristic and will not catch everything.

Test plan

  • npm test in app/: 4,367 passing
  • npm run lint: 0 errors (2 pre-existing warnings)
  • npm run build: passes
  • node scripts/check-secrets.mjs: clean on the tree in under a second, with no allowlist entries
  • The CI range script was run against throwaway repos: leak in a PR, moved base, all-zero before, unreachable base, shallow clone, injection-shaped SHA
  • Secret scan, CodeQL and Lint · Test · Build pass in CI on the latest commit
  • Read SECURITY_NOTICE.md and decide whether the wording and defaults suit you
  • Choose option 1 or 2 above

Still needed from the owner (#22 stays open)

  1. Follow step 1 in SECURITY_NOTICE.md: create a new Neon role, put its connection string in Vercel (Production, Preview, Development), redeploy, smoke test, then revoke the old role, and confirm the old string is refused from your own machine.
  2. Revoke the Stack Auth secret server key and remove the STACK_* and VITE_STACK_* variables from Vercel.
  3. Confirm JWT_SECRET in Vercel is a long random value.
  4. Record the dates and the git-history decision in SECURITY_NOTICE.md. Accepting the risk after rotating is the default, since the old values are then dead.
  5. Turn on GitHub secret scanning under Settings, Code security. Push protection is already blocking pushes, but secret scanning itself is reported as not enabled.

One thing not confirmed: commit ee0e0be also touched the env files 45 minutes before 1eef6e2. The inventory says it held placeholders only, but a shallow clone cannot show it. Running node scripts/check-secrets.mjs --history on a full mirror settles it.

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The agent-doable part of #22. Rotating the leaked Neon password and
revoking the retired Stack Auth key need the owner's dashboards, so this
does NOT close #22 and records no rotation.

- SECURITY_NOTICE.md is rewritten as an ordered owner checklist with
  blank "done on" cells. It lists what leaked by service (no values),
  which items are public by design, exposure, the git-history options,
  and how the owner confirms the old credential is dead themselves.
  It corrects the origin commit: 1eef6e2 (2025-12-16), not the shallow
  clone boundary a51ef33 that earlier notes cited.
- scripts/check-secrets.mjs: dependency-free scanner over git-tracked
  files (URLs with real passwords, private keys, provider tokens, JWTs,
  SQL role passwords, secret-named assignments, hardcoded env
  fallbacks). Reports file, line and rule only, never matched text.
  --history mode for the owner to run on a full mirror.
- CI: new "Secret scan" job; the lint-test-build job is unchanged.
- Tests (checkSecrets.test.js): fixtures built at runtime, detection
  rates over generated secrets, placeholder handling, report hygiene,
  hostile-input timing, and a clean full-tree run.
- Docs that told developers to put real values in the tracked env files
  (ENVIRONMENT_VARIABLES.md, CLAUDE.md, .env.example) now point to the
  untracked .env.development.local.

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Summary by CodeRabbit

  • Security
    • Added automated scans of tracked files and added lines in pull requests and pushes, with invalid or unavailable commit ranges treated as failures.
    • Documented credential exposure and rotation status, remediation steps, scanning coverage and limitations, and options for addressing secrets in repository history.
  • Documentation
    • Clarified local setup instructions for creating an untracked environment file without overwriting tracked configuration.
    • Updated guidance on environment-file precedence, database connection settings, and secret scanning, including where to find further security information.

Walkthrough

The PR adds a CI job that scans tracked files and added lines in supported commit ranges. It updates the security notice with the credential incident status and response steps. Setup guidance now uses an untracked local environment file and explains how to provide DATABASE_URL.

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Secret scanning and credential guidance

Layer / File(s) Summary
CI secret scan
.github/workflows/ci.yml
The workflow sets read-only contents permissions and adds a secret-scan job. The job scans tracked files and added lines in supported pull request and push commit ranges.
Credential status and response steps
SECURITY_NOTICE.md
The notice records exposed credentials, the open rotation status, response steps, history options, and scanner scope and limits. It does not state that credential rotation or history cleanup is complete.
Local and deployment environment setup
CLAUDE.md, app/.env.example, docs/ENVIRONMENT_VARIABLES.md
Setup instructions create .env.development.local only when it does not exist and warn against overwriting tracked environment files. The guidance explains how to provide DATABASE_URL for vercel dev and scripts, and how to configure production variables.

Priority: ⬆️ High

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes

Change: Feature

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant Event as GitHub event
  participant Workflow as CI workflow
  participant Repository as Git repository
  participant Scanner as Secret scanner
  Event->>Workflow: Start workflow
  Workflow->>Repository: Check out full history without persisted credentials
  Workflow->>Scanner: Scan tracked files
  Workflow->>Repository: Read supported event commit range
  Workflow->>Scanner: Scan added lines in commit range
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Merge Risk: ⚪ Minimal · up to 1df88

The PR adds secret scanning and environment guidance while clearly leaving credential rotation as an owner action. No concrete merge-blocking risk remains.

Security Architecture Review

Security architecture risk: 🔵 Low · up to b789e

The new scan and rotation guidance improve protection without changing production credentials or service access. Previously exposed credentials still require owner action, and the deployed state cannot be verified from this PR.

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Security review details

Security Blast Radius

  • inferred — The unresolved historical exposure principally concerns database access through the leaked Neon owner-role password; the runbook also identifies a retired Stack Auth server key. The PR adds no demonstrated access to either provider.

Trust Boundaries and Controls

  • observed — Pull-request code runs in the scanner's checkout without write-capable contents permission or persisted checkout credentials. The notice acknowledges that a PR can edit the scanner or workflow it is judged by, so that gate alone is not an independent control over those edits.

Resilience and Maintainability Implications

  • inferred — The documented redeploy, smoke-test, and rollback restrictions reduce premature-revocation risk, but an interrupted or concurrent rollout still depends on the owner identifying every active consumer of the old credential. No deployment-convergence mechanism is established by these documentation changes.

Hardening Proposals

  • proposed — Before revocation, explicitly verify the credential and intended Neon branch for every active deployment, including in-flight Preview and Development consumers.
  • proposed — If the scan is to serve as an independent merge gate, run its policy from a trusted revision or require separate review of changes to the scanner and workflow.
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Linked Issues check ⚠️ Warning Issue #22 requires verification or rotation of the exposed Neon and Stack Auth credentials, Vercel updates, production checks, and a dated outcome in SECURITY_NOTICE.md. The PR states that these own… Complete the credential rotation or verification. Update Vercel environment variables. Verify production login, OAuth, and sync. Confirm that the old credentials no longer work. Record the outcome and date in SECURITY_NOTICE.md.
Out of Scope Changes check ⚠️ Warning The secret-scan CI job and scanner hardening detect possible credentials but do not satisfy any acceptance criterion in Issue #22. The CLAUDE.md, app/.env.example, and `docs/ENVIRONMENT_VARIABLE… Move the scanner, CI workflow, and general environment setup changes to a separate issue, or provide a direct Issue #22 requirement that connects them. Keep the runbook changes that directly support the credential response.
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Check name Status Explanation
Title check ✅ Passed The title clearly identifies the two main changes: the credential rotation runbook and the CI secret scan. The issue reference is relevant.
Description check ✅ Passed The description directly explains the runbook, CI scanner, environment-file documentation changes, known limitations, testing, and remaining owner actions.
Docstring Coverage ✅ Passed No functions found in the changed files to evaluate docstring coverage. Skipping docstring coverage check. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 0 functions across 0…
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Issue #22 requires verification or rotation of the exposed Neon and Stack Auth credentials, Vercel updates, production checks, and a dated outcome in SECURITY_NOTICE.md. The PR states that these owner actions remain incomplete. The runbook records no completed rotation date and does not establish that the old credentials fail, that production login, OAuth, and sync work, or that the old Stack Auth key is revoked.

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The secret-scan CI job and scanner hardening detect possible credentials but do not satisfy any acceptance criterion in Issue #22. The CLAUDE.md, app/.env.example, and docs/ENVIRONMENT_VARIABLES.md changes provide general environment setup guidance and do not rotate credentials, update Vercel, verify production, or record the required outcome. The SECURITY_NOTICE.md runbook supports the issue response, but it does not complete the required owner actions.

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Addresses Codex review feedback on #120. Four scanner bypasses were
reproduced with fake values before fixing; the fifth finding is a runbook
change.

- Quoted values containing spaces are judged whole; the whitespace
  rejection applies only to unquoted values. Unquoted passphrases in
  YAML/ini/properties/toml/dotenv and YAML block scalars are also read
  (shell scripts stay excluded: the words after the first are a command).
- Shell parameter expansions: only pure ${VAR}, $VAR and ${VAR:?msg} are
  placeholders. Default/alternate operands (:-, -, :=, =, :+, +),
  including nested ones and literals glued to an expansion, are judged as
  candidate secrets. Unbalanced or too-deep expansions fail closed.
- The docs/API.md sample password is exempt only as the entire assigned
  value and only in that file.
- --history keeps two lines of context so a value added under an
  unchanged secret-like name is found, and reports a hit only when the
  match touches a line the commit added. Git C-quoted paths are decoded.
  Output stays commit, path, rule and count only.
- Makefile ?=/+= and Dockerfile ENV/ARG assignments are recognised.
  Not handled: Makefile function forms such as $(or $(X),literal).
- Quoted UI/error sentences under secret-like keys are not flagged.
- SECURITY_NOTICE.md: the Neon rotation is now staged (new role, Vercel,
  redeploy, smoke test, then revoke the old role). Resetting in place is
  described as the faster option that accepts an outage. Every "done on"
  cell and the owner's own check that the old credential is dead are kept.
- 25 new regression tests with runtime-built fake values; the history
  filter test now fails if the filter is removed.

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Addresses the fourth Codex review of #120. All four findings were
reproduced with fake values first. Two were structural: an incomplete
scan reported success. This round also audits every skip/catch/lossy
path in the scanner so that class is fixed, not just the instances.

Findings
- URL passwords with a parameter expansion and literal fallback
  (${VAR:-literal}) are judged as candidate passwords. Pure ${VAR}/$VAR
  still pass. The length caps on the URL user and password, which made
  long values fail to match at all, are removed.
- Tracked files with non-UTF-8 names are read by raw bytes and scanned.
  Any tracked file that cannot be read is now a failure (exit 1, count
  named) instead of a quiet skip. A file listed but deleted from the
  working tree is scanned from the index.
- --history no longer says "no hits" when it skipped anything (oversize
  versions, unattributable added lines, binary lines, shallow clone):
  it prints INCOMPLETE and exits 2.
- Assignments through quoted property names (config['NAME'] = ...,
  obj?.['NAME'], nested chains, { ['NAME']: v }) are detected.

Found by the fail-open audit and review
- Symlinks are scanned as their target text instead of skipped.
- A NUL byte no longer exempts a text file: binary now requires a NUL
  plus a known binary signature. UTF-32 (with and without BOM) is
  decoded.
- Regression fixed: bracket-notation support had made a non-secret
  bracket assignment swallow the object literal to its right, hiding
  secrets that were previously found. The value is now read only when
  the name is secret-like, which also lets secrets on no-space lines
  (minified JSON, x=1;NAME='v') be examined.
- The entry-point check can no longer end in a silent exit 0.

Known residual gaps are documented in SECURITY_NOTICE.md (for example a
$(...) URL password containing spaces, and Makefile function forms).
Tests use runtime-built fake values; the tree scan still exits 0 with no
allowlist entries, in about 0.23 s.

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…ob, cap test time

Addresses the fifth Codex review of #120. All six findings were
reproduced with fake values first, and each was fixed as a class (sibling
shapes enumerated and tested), not just for the example given.

- Passphrases vs prose: replaced the one-common-word exemption with a
  sentence-likeness test. A sentence of common words is exempt only in a
  message-catalog path (i18n, locales, messages) or when it reads as
  documentation about the credential. "correct horse battery and staple"
  and "This is the way." are now findings. Tradeoff: a UI sentence in an
  ordinary config file needs a placeholder or the allow marker.
- Credential files: path-specific and content matchers for .netrc,
  .pgpass, .git-credentials, .npmrc/.yarnrc, .pypirc, .aws/credentials,
  docker config, kubeconfig, htpasswd, .my.cnf, .s3cfg, Terraform,
  curlrc/wgetrc/vault-token. Matching works on whole-word path names
  (netrc.txt, .netrc.prod) and on content written by echo/printf/heredoc.
- URL-valued secrets: strong names (API_TOKEN=...) are inspected for
  signed-URL parameters, random path segments and userinfo tokens; weak
  names (TOKEN_ENDPOINT) keep the endpoint exemption. New webhook-url
  rule for Slack, Discord, Teams, Power Automate, Zapier, IFTTT, Telegram,
  PagerDuty.
- Name/value pairs in any order: bounded object/YAML-item windows for
  JSON, YAML flow and block forms, Kubernetes/Compose env lists,
  CloudFormation, XML, CSV/Markdown rows, and code with quoted names, plus
  a secret-cli-command rule (gh secret set, vercel env add, ...).
- Staged vs working tree: both versions are scanned when their blob ids
  differ (one hash per file; a CI checkout pays nothing extra). The
  report says (index) or (working tree), path/line/rule only.
- Test time: the oversize fixtures are just over 5 MB in 1 KB lines
  (about 300 ms, from 3.4 s); every git/node-spawning test has an
  explicit 120 s timeout; hostile-input bounds are 8 s. Measured under
  CPU contention with no test near its timeout.
- Review also found and fixed quadratic scan time on single-line
  credential files (19 s for 1.1 MB, now about 150 ms) and a brace inside
  a JSON string defeating the bounded window.

The scanner is a heuristic. Known residual gaps stay documented in
SECURITY_NOTICE.md. Tests use runtime-built fake values; the tree scan
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…L js/redos)

CodeQL flagged one high-severity alert on the scanner: the message-catalog
file-name pattern used a separator class [._-] followed by a segment class
[\w-]+ that overlaps it on '_' and '-'. The regex runs on every tracked
file NAME, which a pull request controls, so a 60-character name such as
'i18n-' plus '--' x 22 took 10 to 16 seconds and doubled with each repeat.
That would hang the CI secret-scan job.

- Segments are now [A-Za-z0-9]+ after one separator, so the classes do not
  overlap and matching is linear. Names with doubled separators
  ('messages--en.json') are no longer treated as catalogs, which errs
  toward scanning them as ordinary config (the safe direction).
- Fuzzed every path-classification regex with 1,632 hostile 3 KB paths
  (33 names x 16 repeat units x 3 endings): worst case 7 ms.
- Regression tests run the hostile-path scans in a child process with a
  30 s kill timeout, because a backtracking regex blocks the JS thread and
  Vitest's own timeout cannot interrupt it. Verified against the old
  regex: the test fails cleanly at 30 s instead of hanging.
- The earlier hostile-input tests varied file CONTENT, never file PATHS,
  which is why this got through.

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🟡 Minor · Add a top-level permissions: contents: read block. · ci.yml:11

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Security Misconfiguration

Reachability: External
Exploitability: Difficult
CWE: CWE-250

Add a top-level permissions: contents: read block.

The lint-test-build job has no job-level permissions and therefore inherits the repository or organization default. That default may grant broader token access than required. Set the workflow default to least privilege.

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- XML-family files get config-value semantics (Maven <password> etc.)
- Slack xapp/xoxe families and ~20 more provider token rules
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- allow marker on the value line of a separated name/value pair suppresses
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- HCL/TOML/Python/Ruby/JS/PowerShell multiline literals judged as values
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- history/range context is kept in characters instead of assuming a
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- split name/value pairs read YAML block scalars and multiline bodies
- SQL password rule covers double/backtick/dollar quoting and per-dialect forms
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  and literal basic-auth calls
- variable/output block labels paired with default/value; pulumi and
  ansible-vault handling
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🟡 Minor · Require a successful empty-range scan. · checkSecrets.test.js:6160

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If --range fails with an error status, this assertion still passes. Assert status 0 so expectReported does not accept a broken range scan.

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- merge commits: scan the merged blob and report matches no parent held,
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- whole-value variable references ($name, %(name)s, $env:NAME, ...) are
  not reported as hardcoded secrets
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const first = input.slice(valueStart, Math.min(lineEnd, valueStart + 4096)).replace(/\r$/, '');
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const check = (text, quoted) => isSecretValue({ kind, value: text, quoted, separator: ' ', mode: ctx.mode, minLength: ctx.minStrong, catalog: ctx.catalog });
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P1 Badge Avoid rescanning overlapping properties continuations

For a .properties file containing many backslash-continued secret-like keys, every match calls continuedValue and rereads up to 200 subsequent lines, making a 400-line/roughly 400 KB fixture take about 15–16 seconds per filename. The newly added scans hostile properties text in linear time test reproducibly fails its 8-second limit (npm test -- src/lib/__tests__/checkSecrets.test.js -t 'scans hostile properties text in linear time' took 31.9 seconds), and a few larger files can exhaust the secret-scan job's five-minute timeout; consume each continuation once or cache overlapping reads.

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P1 Badge Accept namespace prefixes on XML pair elements

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P1 Badge Parse Rust raw strings in environment setters

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P1 Badge Inspect Authorization values in XML entries

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// echo 'user:P' | chpasswd, chpasswd <<< "user:P": the password of a user account set from a script (a Dockerfile RUN line)
hint: /chpasswd/,
pattern: /(?:(?:echo|printf)[ \t]+(?:-[A-Za-z]+[ \t]+)*["']?[A-Za-z_][A-Za-z0-9_.-]{0,63}:([^\s"'|;&]{1,1024})["']?[ \t]*\|[ \t]*(?:sudo[ \t]+)?chpasswd|chpasswd[ \t]*<<<[ \t]*["']?[A-Za-z_][A-Za-z0-9_.-]{0,63}:([^\s"'|;&]{1,1024}))/g,

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P1 Badge Read the full quoted password passed to chpasswd

When chpasswd receives a quoted password containing spaces, this bespoke pattern stops its capture at the first whitespace, so both echo 'admin:correct horse battery staple' | chpasswd and chpasswd <<< 'admin:correct horse battery staple' scan clean even though the shell passes the complete string and the command sets that OS account password. Fresh evidence after the quoted CLI-passphrase fixes is that this separate matcher still tokenizes the value with a whitespace-excluding regex; parse the full shell word before judging the password.

AGENTS.md reference: AGENTS.md:L45-L47

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Address the remaining CodeQL alert conservatively:
- matched text is kept in an in-memory WeakMap and compared as strings
  for merge/history checks; no digest of credential text is computed
- working-file blob ids come from `git hash-object` instead of a JS
  SHA-1 over file bytes
- tests: no dynamic RegExp construction

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01Dn84c88DDz5xSC19Z9c5Mg

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Comment thread scripts/check-secrets.mjs
// in groups 1-3, otherwise the bare whitespace-free token in group 4.
const valueAt = (bareMax) =>
new RegExp(
String.raw`"((?:[^"\\\n]|\\[\s\S]){0,4096})"|'((?:[^'\\\n]|\\[\s\S]){0,4096})'|\x60((?:[^\x60\\\n]|\\[\s\S]){0,4096})\x60|(\S{1,${bareMax}})`,

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P1 Badge Parse prefixed Python string literals

When Python uses a raw or bytes literal for a secret, such as JWT_SECRET = r"A7fK9mQ2xL8vN4pR6tY3uW8", this reader consumes only the prefix (r or b) as the bare value and never judges the quoted body. I reproduced both the tracked-tree and --range scans exiting clean, so ordinary prefixed Python literals can bypass the new CI check; recognize Python string prefixes before parsing the quote.

AGENTS.md reference: AGENTS.md:L45-L47

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{
// PowerShell: $env:NAME = 'value', ${env:NAME} += "value"
hint: /env:/i,
pattern: /\$\{?env:([A-Za-z_][A-Za-z0-9_.-]{0,255})\}?[ \t]{0,64}\+?=[ \t]{0,64}(?=["'])/gi,

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P1 Badge Accept here-strings in PowerShell environment assignments

When a PowerShell environment variable is assigned a multiline here-string, for example $env:JWT_SECRET = @' followed by a credential and '@, this lookahead rejects the value because it accepts only a quote immediately after =. I reproduced both tree and range scans reporting no findings even though the equivalent plain $JWT_SECRET here-string is detected; route $env: assignments beginning with @' or @" through the existing here-string reader.

AGENTS.md reference: AGENTS.md:L45-L47

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Comment thread scripts/check-secrets.mjs
appliesTo: (ctx) => ctx.mode !== 'code',
accept: (m, ctx) => {
const kind = nameKindFor(m[2], ctx);
return kind !== null && childHoldsSecretValue(m, kind, ctx, 0);

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P1 Badge Inspect literals wrapped by Terraform sensitive()

Fresh evidence after the direct Terraform-label fix is that output "api_token" { value = sensitive("A7fK9mQ2xL8vN4pR6tY3uW8") } still passes both tree and range scans: the child-value reader judges only the outer sensitive(...) expression and never inspects its literal argument. sensitive() affects Terraform's display behavior but does not make a committed literal safe, so unwrap and judge literal arguments in default/value fields (and direct secret-like assignments).

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Comment thread scripts/check-secrets.mjs
matchers: [
{
pattern: /\b(?:jwt|jsonwebtoken|jws)\.(?:sign|verify)\(([^;]{0,300}?),[ \t]*(["'`])([^"'`\n]{8,4096})\2/g,
accept: (m) => isSecondArgument(m[1]) && looksRandom(m[3], GATES.codeStrong),

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P1 Badge Judge passphrases used as JWT signing keys

When jwt.sign or jwt.verify receives a literal passphrase such as jwt.sign(payload, "correct horse battery staple"), this acceptance gate rejects it solely because the value is not random-looking. I reproduced both the tracked-tree and --range scans reporting no finding, even though the second argument is unambiguously signing-key material; judge non-placeholder passphrases here as secrets rather than requiring entropy.

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appliesTo: (ctx) => ctx.mode === 'code',
hint: /[@(:]/,
pattern:
/(?<![A-Za-z0-9_$.\/-])(@|\((?:def|defonce|defvar|defparameter|defconstant|defcustom|setq|setf|define)(?![A-Za-z0-9_-])[ \t]{1,8}(?:\^[^\s()]{1,30}[ \t]{1,8}){0,2}|:)([A-Za-z_][A-Za-z0-9_.-]{0,255})()[ \t]{1,64}(?=["'\x60])/g,

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P1 Badge Parse C preprocessor secret definitions

When C or C++ stores a credential in the standard macro form #define API_TOKEN "A7fK9mQ2xL8vN4pR6tY3uW8", no assignment operator exists and this definition matcher does not include #define, so both tree and range scans report the file clean. Extend the no-operator definition handling to preprocessor macros, including backslash-continued definitions, so embedded credentials do not bypass CI.

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id: 'private-key-block',
lockfile: true,
description: 'PEM private key block (header followed by key material)',

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P1 Badge Detect private JSON Web Keys

When a private key is committed as a JWK rather than PEM—for example an EC object containing "kty":"EC", "crv":"P-256", and a literal private "d" value—the generic assignment rule sees only non-secret field names and this private-key rule handles only PEM blocks. I reproduced valid private EC and symmetric kty: "oct" JWK shapes passing both tree and range scans; add a targeted structural JWK matcher for private d/k members while excluding public-only keys.

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const CONFIG_EXTENSIONS = new Set([
'.env', '.ini', '.cfg', '.conf', '.config', '.properties', '.toml', '.yml', '.yaml', '.json', '.jsonc',
'.json5', '.sh', '.bash', '.zsh', '.fish', '.ksh', '.csh', '.tcsh', '.bat', '.cmd', '.tf', '.tfvars', '.hcl', '.example',
'.sample', '.template', '.dist', '.cnf', '.tfstate', '.kubeconfig', '.acl',
]);

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P1 Badge Treat systemd unit files as configuration

When a tracked unit sets a credential with standard systemd syntax such as Environment="JWT_SECRET=A7fK9mQ2xL8vN4pR6tY3uW8", the .service suffix is not classified as configuration, and the assignment reader treats the nested value as an unquoted source expression. I reproduced both tree and range scans reporting the unit clean for quoted random values and passphrases; classify systemd unit formats or add a targeted Environment=/SetCredential= parser.

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