SECflow

Zero-cost security scanning for AI-driven repositories.

npm package: secflow · single-file CLI · zero dependencies · Node 18+

Secrets, vulnerable dependencies, and custom rules in one scan — with an AI-ready fix brief your coding agent can act on immediately.

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Engines

Engine	What it scans	Required?
gitleaks	committed secrets (800+ rule types)	recommended
trivy	dependency & container CVEs, extra secrets	optional
npm audit	npm dependency vulnerabilities	auto (skipped without package.json)
custom regex	Stripe, GitHub, OpenAI, AWS, Google, Slack, JWT, private keys, Supabase + your own rules	built in

Output: unified .secflow/report.md + .secflow/report.json — severity-tagged, file:line locations, redacted matches, AI-ready fix briefs you paste straight into Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, or Hermes.

Why

AI coding agents ship code fast — and they also miss leaked secrets, vulnerable dependencies, and auth bugs. Paid scanners (Rafter $39–199, Snyk, Semgrep) wrap these same free engines and charge you extra for the "AI fix" layer. SECflow gives you the engines for free and lets the agent you already use be the fix layer.

How it works

secflow scan          →  .secflow/report.md  →  paste brief into your agent  →  fixes
     free engines           human + AI readable              no SaaS, no credits

# After fixing, verify nothing regressed:
secflow verify        →  re-runs scan, compares to previous, reports NEW regressions + fixed

# Accept known-good findings so future scans only flag NEW issues:
secflow baseline      →  snapshot current findings as accepted
secflow scan --baseline  →  subtract accepted findings from results

Install

npm (global binary):

npm install -g secflow

pnpm:

pnpm add -g secflow
# if the secflow command isn't found afterwards:
pnpm setup && source ~/.zshrc   # adds PNPM_HOME to your shell (one-time)

One-off, nothing installed:

npx secflow@latest scan          # or: pnpm dlx secflow@latest scan

From source:

git clone https://github.com/imsankz/secflow && cd secflow
npm install -g .                 # or: pnpm add -g .

Then install the secret-scanning engine (gitleaks — required for real coverage):

brew install gitleaks                          # macOS / Linux
# Windows: choco install gitleaks · scoop install gitleaks
# Linux: see gitleaks releases (single binary)

brew install aquasecurity/trivy/trivy         # optional: dep/container CVEs

Without gitleaks, SECflow still runs npm audit + its regex engine and warns that gitleaks was skipped — so a plain npx secflow scan never hard-fails on a fresh machine.

Verify:

secflow --help      # usage + version
secflow scan        # first run writes .secflow/report.md

Usage

secflow scan                  # scan current dir → .secflow/report.md + report.json
secflow scan --json           # machine-readable summary on stdout
secflow scan --skip trivy     # skip engines you don't have (gitleaks,trivy,npm,regex)
secflow scan --fail-on high   # override which severities exit non-zero
secflow scan --baseline       # subtract accepted findings (from `secflow baseline`)
secflow report                # print the AI-ready brief from the last scan
secflow verify                # re-attack: re-run scan, compare to previous, report regressions
secflow baseline              # snapshot current findings as accepted/known-good
secflow baseline --clear      # wipe baseline, start fresh
secflow init                  # write a secflow.yml config to the current repo
secflow install-hook          # pre-commit hook: gitleaks on staged files
secflow ci                    # CI mode — exits 1 when fail-on severities are present

Exit codes: 0 clean · 1 findings at/above threshold (critical,high by default) · 2 command/internal error (e.g. secflow report before any scan).

Example report (.secflow/report.md)

## Critical (1)
| # | Engine | Rule | File:Line | Match |
|---|--------|------|-----------|-------|
| 1 | regex | `stripe-live-secret` | `src/config.js:1` | `sk_live_…(redacted)` |

### AI-ready fixes
**stripe-live-secret** — src/config.js:1
- custom rule 'stripe-live-secret' matched
- Prompt for your agent: "Fix the SECflow finding 'stripe-live-secret' at src/config.js:1 — custom rule 'stripe-live-secret' matched. Redact and rotate the secret, then re-run secflow scan."

Paste that section into your coding agent with "fix all of these" — every entry carries engine, rule id, exact location, and severity.

Use it as a GitHub Action

Add .github/workflows/security.yml to any repo:

name: Security scan (SECflow)
on: [push, pull_request]
jobs:
  secflow:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    permissions:
      contents: read
    steps:
      - uses: actions/checkout@v4
      - uses: actions/setup-node@v4
        with:
          node-version: 20
      # Fast native gitleaks gate (zero config)
      - uses: gitleaks/gitleaks-action@v2
        env:
          GITHUB_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
      # Full SECflow report → uploads .secflow/ artifact, fails on critical/high
      - uses: imsankz/secflow@v0.3.0   # pin to the latest release tag; see Releases
        with:
          fail-on: critical,high   # or: skip: trivy · path: packages/api

A ready-to-copy version lives at examples/security.yml. The composite action definition is action.yml.

Configuration (secflow.yml)

Run secflow init, or drop this in your repo root:

engines:
  gitleaks: true       # requires gitleaks binary; silently skipped if missing
  trivy: false         # enable once trivy is installed
  npmAudit: true       # skipped automatically when there's no package.json
  regex: true
failOn: critical, high            # severities that make CI exit 1
excludePaths: node_modules, .git, dist, build, .next, vendor, package-lock.json
customRegex:
  my-internal-token: { pattern: 'MYCOMPANY_[A-Za-z0-9]{32,}', severity: critical }

Notes:

• excludePaths entries are slash-tolerant (tests/ matches dir tests) and always implicitly include .git, node_modules, .secflow.
• --fail-on critical on the CLI overrides failOn: from the file.
• Matches are always redacted: regex-engine matches show the first 8 characters; gitleaks matches are fully replaced with REDACTED by the engine itself before secflow ever sees them.

For AI coding agents working in this repo

Read llms.txt (short) or llms-full.txt for the full brief. Ground rules:

• Single-file CLI, zero npm deps — everything lives in bin/secflow.js, Node 18+ stdlib only.
• Test fixtures use deliberately-invalid REPLACEME tokens so GitHub push protection passes. Never commit real-looking fake secrets.
• After changes: npm test must pass 25/25, and self-scan must be clean: node bin/secflow.js scan --skip trivy.
• The report format is the contract for the AI fix layer — don't change fields without updating consumers.
• secflow verify re-runs the scan pipeline and compares against the previous report — use it to confirm fixes landed and catch regressions.
• secflow baseline snapshots accepted findings into .secflow/baseline.json; secflow scan --baseline subtracts them from results.

Roadmap

• secflow fix <file:line> — hand the finding to your agent and apply the patch with review
• SARIF output for GitHub code-scanning integration
• --baseline — ignore previously accepted findings
• Installable from npm/pnpm as secflow

Related: the flow series

SECflow is part of a trio of zero-cost CLI tools — all MIT, all npm-published, all built on the same idea (free engines + your own AI agent as the smart layer):

Tool	Job	Repo
SECflow	Security scanning for AI-driven repos	github.com/imsankz/SECflow
SeoFlow	AI-powered SEO pipeline (audit, internal links, content gen, GSC)	github.com/imsankz/seoflow
BacklinkFlow	Backlink & directory submission automation (1,123 directories, Playwright, $0)	github.com/imsankz/backlinkflow

License

MIT — free forever, no credits, no SaaS.

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☕ Support

SECflow is free forever. If it caught a leaked secret or saved you a Snyk bill, buy me a coffee.