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X · X// 3h agoOPENSOURCE RELEASE
Vercel open-sources deepsec security harness
Vercel open-sourced deepsec, a CLI-first security harness powered by coding agents for finding vulnerabilities in large codebases. It runs on your own infrastructure, can fan out to Vercel Sandboxes for parallel scans, and exports findings in a ticket-friendly format.
// ANALYSIS
This is less a scanner than an agentic security workflow, which is the interesting part: Vercel is turning coding agents into an AppSec multiplier instead of a code-writing toy.
- –The pipeline is built for real codebases: scan, investigate, revalidate, enrich, export.
- –Support for Claude and Codex makes it model-agnostic instead of locking teams into a single vendor stack.
- –The claimed 10-20% false-positive rate is still material, but the revalidation pass is the right tradeoff for higher recall on subtle issues.
- –The plugin system matters: custom regex scanners for auth, data flows, and team conventions are how this becomes useful beyond demo repos.
- –Best fit looks like application and service code, not general-purpose libraries or frameworks.
// TAGS
deepsecsecurityclicoding-agentai-codingautomationopen-sourcedevtool
DISCOVERED
3h ago
2026-05-04
PUBLISHED
4h ago
2026-05-04
RELEVANCE
8/ 10
AUTHOR
evilrabbit_