Secrets Detection Python Packages

ggshield

Detect and validate 500+ types of hardcoded secrets with advanced checks. Use it as a pre-commit hook, GitHub Action, or CLI for proactive secret detection and security.

pygitguardian

Python API client library for the GitGuardian API

whispers

Identify hardcoded secrets in static structured text (version 2)

tartufo

Searches through git repositories for high entropy strings and secrets, digging deep into commit history

agentsweep

Find and redact secrets in AI coding agent histories (Claude Code, and more).

promptsanitizer

Secrets firewall for AI pipelines — redact credentials and PII before they reach (or leave) LLMs.

armorer-guard

Fast local Rust scanner for AI-agent prompt injection, credential leaks, exfiltration, and risky tool calls

n0s1

Secret Scanner for Slack, Jira, Confluence, Asana, Wrike, Linear, Zendesk, GitHub, and GitLab

nightfall

Python Data Loss Prevention (DLP) SDK - Nightfall Developer Platform

aifence

Protect sensitive files and prompts from AI coding tools

ludvig

A simple vulnerability scanner

asweep

Short alias for agentsweep — secret scanner for AI agent histories.

tell-me-your-secrets

A simple module which finds files with different secrets keys present inside a directory

rag-firewall

Client-side retrieval firewall for RAG systems — blocks prompt injection and secret leaks, re-ranks stale or untrusted content, and keeps all data inside your environment.

pygitguard

A tool to prevent you from pushing sensitive files to your repository.

dotenv-secrets-scanner

Production-ready secrets scanner for Git repositories. Detects API keys, passwords, tokens, and credentials accidentally committed to source code.

holtzman

Defensive, local-first secret-leak scanner for AI/LLM API keys — finds your own leaks; never validates, pools, or stores a key.

noseyparker-explorer

Interactive results explorer and annotation tool for Nosey Parker

wraith

Deterministic linter for AI-generated Python code

secpat2gf

convert secret patterns to gf compatible

gitshield-cli

GitShield — The Developer Guardian That Watches Your Code. Real-time secret detection, intelligent pre-commit checks, repo health scoring, and developer behavior intelligence.

massgitleaks

Automate gitleaks scanning across multiple repositories