AI secret scanning that reviews pull requests for leaked credentials before merge

Puaro is an AI secret scanner that reviews every pull and merge request for hardcoded credentials, API keys and tokens before the code is merged.

Rather than matching patterns the way regex based scanners such as Gitleaks and TruffleHog do, it reads the code around a candidate string, following how the value is assigned and used, to decide whether it is a live secret or a test fixture, sample key or placeholder.

On one benchmark, Puaro reports 99.8 percent less noise than a regex based scanner.

The scanner installs as a GitHub Marketplace app or a GitLab integration and returns findings as inline comments, Slack messages or email, with guidance on rotating the exposed credential.

Puaro is built for development and security teams handling the volume of code that AI coding assistants now produce, much of which no one reads line by line before it reaches a branch.

Puaro was founded in Israel in 2023 and offers free scanning during its early access beta.