# Install detect-secrets

Enterprise friendly way of detecting and preventing secrets in code. Version 1.5.0 via Homebrew; verified 2026-05-20.

## Install

```sh
sudo av install brew:detect-secrets
```

Additional install commands:

### macOS

- Homebrew (100%):

```sh
brew install detect-secrets
```

  Evidence: local Homebrew formula metadata

### Linux

- Nix (92%):

```sh
nix profile install nixpkgs#detect-secrets
```

  Evidence: nixpkgs package indexes: detect-secrets from https://raw.githubusercontent.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/master/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix

## Package Facts

- **Package key:** brew:detect-secrets
- **Package manager:** Homebrew
- **Package manager URL:** <https://formulae.brew.sh/formula/detect-secrets>
- **Version:** 1.5.0
- **Source summary:** Enterprise friendly way of detecting and preventing secrets in code
- **Homepage:** <https://github.com/Yelp/detect-secrets>
- **Repository:** <https://github.com/Yelp/detect-secrets>
- **Upstream docs:** <https://github.com/Yelp/detect-secrets#readme>
- **License:** Apache-2.0
- **Source archive:** <https://files.pythonhosted.org/packages/69/67/382a863fff94eae5a0cf05542179169a1c49a4c8784a9480621e2066ca7d/detect_secrets-1.5.0.tar.gz>
- **Last updated:** 2026-05-20T12:50:03Z
- **Generated:** 2026-06-10T07:18:26+00:00

## Executables

- detect-secrets (cli)
- detect-secrets-hook (cli)
- detect-secrets (alias)
- detect-secrets-hook (alias)

## Dependencies

- certifi
- libyaml
- python@3.14

## Install Behavior

- Post-install hook: not defined
- Bottle: available on arm64_linux, arm64_sequoia, arm64_sonoma, arm64_tahoe, sonoma, x86_64_linux

## Freshness

- Page generated: 2026-06-10
- Package-manager version: 1.5.0
- Package-manager updated: 2026-05-20
- Local data status: ok
- Upstream repository: https://github.com/Yelp/detect-secrets
- info: No cached GitHub release or tag data was available.

## Notes de sécurité

no executable entrypoint in the package index.

- **Geiger risk:** green / low
- no executable entrypoint in the package index

## Source Database Details

- **Source Database:** Homebrew formula API
- **Tap:** homebrew/core
- **Full Name:** detect-secrets
- **Version Scheme:** 0
- **Revision:** 9
- **Head Version:** HEAD
- **Bottle Stable Root URL:** <https://ghcr.io/v2/homebrew/core>
- **Deprecated:** no
- **Disabled:** no
- **Keg Only:** no
- **URL Keys:** head, stable

## Other Package-Manager Records

- Nix - detect-secrets: normalized package name match | nixpkgs package indexes: detect-secrets from https://raw.githubusercontent.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/master/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix


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- [Security and crypto packages](https://www.automicvault.com/fr/pkg/security-crypto-tools/) - Matched security, identity, cryptography, password, signing, or certificate metadata.
- [python@3.14](https://www.automicvault.com/fr/pkg/brew/python-3-14/) - Runtime dependency declared by Homebrew.
- [gitleaks](https://www.automicvault.com/fr/pkg/brew/gitleaks/) - Shares av.db curated category or tags: cli, devsecops, secret-scanning, security.
- [git-hound](https://www.automicvault.com/fr/pkg/brew/git-hound/) - Shares av.db curated category or tags: cli, pre-commit, secret-scanning, security.
- [git-secrets](https://www.automicvault.com/fr/pkg/brew/git-secrets/) - Shares av.db curated category or tags: cli, secret-scanning, security.
- [kingfisher](https://www.automicvault.com/fr/pkg/brew/kingfisher/) - Shares av.db curated category or tags: cli, secret-scanning, security.
- [tartufo](https://www.automicvault.com/fr/pkg/brew/tartufo/) - Shares av.db curated category or tags: cli, secret-scanning, security.
- [mantra](https://www.automicvault.com/fr/pkg/brew/mantra/) - Shares av.db curated category or tags: cli, secret-scanning, security.
- [squealer](https://www.automicvault.com/fr/pkg/brew/squealer/) - Shares av.db curated category or tags: cli, secret-scanning, security.
- [talisman](https://www.automicvault.com/fr/pkg/brew/talisman/) - Shares av.db curated category or tags: cli, devsecops, pre-commit, security.
- [cycode](https://www.automicvault.com/fr/pkg/brew/cycode/) - Both packages touch the same language runtime or ecosystem. Shared terms: certifi, cli, devsecops, libyaml, python.

## Sources

- Nucleus package database
- Geiger risk classifier
- package-page enrichment
- package version freshness
- av.db category and tag curation
- package relationship graph
- external package-manager database matches
- cross-ecosystem install command graph