Secrets leak triage
Validate scanner findings, map possible exposure, and prepare a bounded containment and rotation checklist.
What this workflow does
Validate scanner findings, map possible exposure, and prepare a bounded containment and rotation checklist. It separates observed facts from inference, surfaces conflicting evidence, and delivers a review-ready finding set instead of an opaque answer.
What you gain
Real leaks reach the right owner quickly without exposing secret values in another report.
What the AI agent changes
How this worked before
Traditional automation could collect records, but a person still had to compare sources, resolve conflicts, and write the conclusion.
What the AI agent changes
The agent can plan a search, inspect multiple sources, distinguish facts from inference, and return a cited report.
Agent trigger
A secret scanner or repository control reports a potential credential exposure.
Inputs
- Process context: redacted finding, commit history, credential owner, affected services, access logs, and exposure window
- Approved policies, ownership, and exception rules
Agent flow
- 1
Collect source material from the approved systems and record its timestamp.
- 2
Cross-check conflicting signals and separate facts from inference.
- 3
Prepare finding validity, possible blast radius, urgency, owner, and reversible containment plan with citations, unknowns, and confidence.
- 4
Deliver the approved report and preserve its evidence set.
Human decisions
After step 3
The accountable process owner approves finding validity, possible blast radius, urgency, owner, and reversible containment plan.
Outcome
- Security-approved triage packet and rotation checklist
- Evidence, exceptions, and audit trail
Guardrails
- Label inference separately from observed facts.
- Do not close the investigation while required sources are unavailable.
Risks and mitigations
Missing or stale evidence can produce a confident but incomplete finding.
Show source coverage, conflicts, timestamps, and unanswered questions.
Sources and evidence
Sources establish feasibility or impact. Not every metric comes from an identical implementation.
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