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Simon Willison Releases scan-for-secrets 0.3 with Redaction Support

Published 2026-04-06Ingested 2026-04-10AI-Assisted DevelopmentLow

Summary

Simon Willison has released version 0.3 of scan-for-secrets, an open-source tool designed to detect secrets (such as API keys and credentials) in files before they are shared. The new release introduces a `-r/--redact` option that displays detected matches, prompts for confirmation, and then replaces each match with 'REDACTED' while respecting escaping rules. A new Python function `redact_file()` is also available for programmatic use. While this is a minor tooling release from a well-known dev

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