trufflesecurity

TruffleHog

Name: TruffleHog
Author: trufflesecurity

AI community intermediate

SOURCE https://github.com/trufflesecurity/trufflehog

Description

Find, verify, and analyze leaked credentials. 800+ secret types, live verification. Essential for pre-commit scanning in AI workflows. ~18k stars.

Installation

This entry records only its repository, not the path inside it, so there is no exact command to give. Open the source below and copy the folder into ~/.claude/skills/, or the file into ~/.claude/agents/.

README

TruffleHog

Find leaked credentials.

[](https://goreportcard.com/report/github.com/trufflesecurity/trufflehog/v3) [](/LICENSE) [](/pkg/detectors)

:mag_right: _Now Scanning_

**...and more**

To learn more about TruffleHog and its features and capabilities, visit our [product page](https://trufflesecurity.com/trufflehog?gclid=CjwKCAjwouexBhAuEiwAtW_Zx5IW87JNj97Ci7heFnA5ar6-DuNzT2Y5nIl9DuZ-FOUqx0Qg3vb9nxoClcEQAvD_BwE).

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We take the revenue from the enterprise product to fund more awesome open source projects that the whole community can benefit from.

What is TruffleHog 🐽

TruffleHog is the most powerful secrets **Discovery, Classification, Validation,** and **Analysis** tool. In this context, secret refers to a credential a machine uses to authenticate itself to another machine. This includes API keys, database passwords, private encryption keys, and more.

Discovery 🔍

TruffleHog can look for secrets in many places including Git, chats, wikis, logs, API testing platforms, object stores, filesystems and more.

Classification 📁

TruffleHog classifies over 800 secret types, mapping them back to the specific identity they belong to. Is it an AWS secret? Stripe secret? Cloudflare secret? Postgres password? SSL Private key? Sometimes it's hard to tell looking at it, so TruffleHog classifies everything it finds.

Validation ✅

For every secret TruffleHog can classify, it can also log in to confirm if that secret is live or not. This step is critical to know if there’s an active present danger or not.