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Introducing Betterleaks, an Open Source Secrets Scanner by the Author of Gitleaks (4 minute read)
Betterleaks is a pure-Go drop-in replacement for Gitleaks that keeps existing CLI flags and configs while adding CEL-based rule validation, default multi-layer encoding detection, and parallelized git scanning. Its standout filter swaps entropy for BPE token-efficiency scoring, lifting recall on the CredData benchmark from 70.4% to 98.6%, and the CLI is explicitly designed to be driven by coding agents like Claude Code, Codex, and Cursor alongside humans. Teams already running Gitleaks in CI can swap the binary today and gain speed and far fewer false negatives. The v2 roadmap adds support for more source types, optional LLM-assisted classification, and auto-revocation via provider APIs.
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