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AI-assisted commits leak secrets at roughly double the human rate in GitGuardian's 2026 data
GitGuardian's 2026 State of Secrets Sprawl Report says commits identified as AI-assisted leak secrets at about twice the rate of human-written ones. Agent and MCP config files also keep plaintext keys on developer machines where commit scanning and code review never look.
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