Installation

Pick whichever matches how your project already installs its tools — they all install the exact same binary and behave identically.

Go

go install github.com/anukool23/secretcheck/cmd/secretcheck@latest

npm / Node projects

npm install --save-dev secretcheck

Only the main secretcheck package is ever installed directly. It ships with five platform-specific packages (secretcheck-darwin-arm64, secretcheck-darwin-x64, secretcheck-linux-arm64, secretcheck-linux-x64, secretcheck-win32-x64) wired in as optionalDependencies — npm automatically installs only the one matching your OS/CPU, the same pattern used by tools like esbuild and swc. You never reference the platform packages yourself.

Python projects

pip install secretcheck

This bundles a prebuilt platform-tagged wheel. secretcheck and python -m secretcheck both just launch the same Go binary.

Direct download

Grab a binary from the Releases page for macOS, Linux, or Windows and put it on your PATH.

Set up the hook

From inside any git repo, regardless of install method:

secretcheck init

This writes a pre-commit hook into .git/hooks/pre-commit — or .husky/pre-commit if it detects an existing Husky setup. From then on, every git commit runs the scan automatically. Continue to the Quick start.