scan-for-secrets 0.2

Simon Willison’s Weblog Subscribe Sponsored by: WorkOS — Production-ready APIs for auth and access control, so you can ship faster. RELEASE scan-for-secrets 0.2 — Scan for secrets in files you plan to share CLI tool now streams results as they are found rather than waiting until the end, which is better for large directories. -d/--directory option can now be used multiple times to scan multiple directories. New -f/--file option for specifying one or more individual files to scan. New scan_directory_iter(), scan_file() and scan_file_iter() Python API functions. New -v/--verbose option which shows each directory that is being scanned. Posted 5th April 2026 at 4:07 am Recent articles The Axios supply chain attack used individually targeted social engineering - 3rd April 2026 Highlights from my conversation about agentic engineering on Lenny's Podcast - 2nd April 2026 Mr. Chatterbox is a (weak) Victorian-era ethically trained model you can run on your own computer - 30th March 2026 This is a beat by Simon Willison, posted on 5th April 2026. Monthly briefing Sponsor me for $10/month and get a curated email digest of the month's most important LLM developments. Pay me to send you less! Sponsor & subscribe Disclosures Colophon © 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023 2024 2025 2026