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How do you allowlist secret scanner false positives safely?
Suppress false positives with narrow, reviewed, expiring exceptions instead of broad path rules, so the allowlist does not become a hiding place.
Oct 18, 20263 min read
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Allowlist or denylist: how should agents be limited on shell commands?
Should a coding agent run shell commands from an allowlist or a denylist? A decision guide with the rule order, the loopholes and a safe starting set.
Oct 18, 20263 min read
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Allow vs ignore rules in an update bot: which one wins?
In one documented bot, allow rules filter first and ignore rules apply after, so ignore wins on a conflict. Learn the order before hiding updates.
Oct 18, 20263 min read
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Airflow secrets backends: lookup order and the pitfalls it creates
Airflow checks a secrets backend, then environment variables, then the metadata database. Learn what that order means for collisions and visibility.
Oct 18, 20263 min read
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Should an AI security assistant run in the IDE or on the pull request?
Run it in both if you can, with different jobs: the IDE for fast private feedback, the pull request for the shared record and the enforcement point.
Oct 18, 20264 min read
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What controls should an AI coding assistant rollout have in week one?
In week one of an AI coding assistant rollout, set five controls: approved tools, least privilege, secret hygiene, reviewed merges, logging.
Oct 18, 20263 min read
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A 30-day AI coding assistant pilot plan your security team can run
A four-week pilot plan for an AI coding assistant: who joins, what to measure, what to log, and the questions that decide whether to roll out wider.
Oct 18, 20263 min read
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AFL++ quickstart: instrument, seed, run, and read the screen
A beginner path through AFL++: build with its compiler wrapper, minimize seeds, run afl-fuzz, and read cycles, paths, crashes, map density and stability.
Oct 18, 20263 min read
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AddressSanitizer: what it catches, what it misses, what it costs
ASan finds out-of-bounds access, use after free and double free in C and C++ tests, at roughly 2x slowdown. Where it fits and where it should not run.
Oct 18, 20264 min read
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