ShipSafe vsGitGuardian
GitGuardian is the best in the world at catching leaked secrets in your repo. But ShipSafe scans your deployed app: live keys shipped in the JS bundle, then one read-only call to prove they actually work, plus the logic bugs a secrets scanner never sees.
The honest version
GitGuardian is the category leader in secrets detection. It recognizes 420+ secret types across GitHub, GitLab, CI, Slack, Jira, and more, with push protection and remediation workflows. If a key, token, or credential lands somewhere it shouldn't, GitGuardian catches it. ShipSafe checks for hardcoded secrets too, but GitGuardian's depth here is unmatched.
The limitation is scope, by design: GitGuardian finds secrets. It doesn't reason about whether your /api/invoices/43 route checks ownership, whether an auth condition is inverted, or whether your admin check only exists in React. Those are the bugs that most often sink an AI-built app.
ShipSafe covers secrets and the logic. Paste a GitHub URL and we read your source for IDOR, broken auth, and missing ownership checks alongside hardcoded keys — in plain English with a fix.
ShipSafe vs GitGuardian, side by side
Where GitGuardian is the right call
- Your top worry is leaked credentials across many repos and developer tools.
- You want push protection to block secrets before they're committed.
- You need to monitor Slack, Jira, CI, and many VCS providers for exposure.
- You're managing non-human identities and secrets at org scale.
Where it leaves a solo founder exposed
- Secrets are one risk; IDOR, broken auth, and missing ownership checks are invisible to a secrets scanner.
- An app with zero leaked keys can still let any user read everyone's data.
- It's a security-team tool with per-developer pricing above 25 devs.
- No plain-English 'what an attacker can do' or copy-paste logic fix.
- A clean repo can still ship a live key in the deployed JS bundle, and that leak lives only in the browser artifact, not the source GitGuardian scans.
- It flags a secret by pattern; it doesn't call the provider to prove the key still works, so you can't tell a dead key from a five-alarm fire.
Frequently Asked Questions
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Does ShipSafe detect secrets?
Zero leaked keys isn't a safe app
Secrets are one hole. Paste your GitHub URL and find the rest — IDOR, broken auth, and more — in plain English.
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