GitHub has trained a credential classifier to improve generic secret detection and reduce false alerts. The new pipeline cut median post-push scan execution time by 86% and model serving costs by more than 98% compared with its previous large language model (LLM) pipeline. GitHub’s secret scanning covers two stages of development.
GitHub adopts cheaper AI model to catch secrets developers leave in code
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