How secretlint is used
secretlint is a dependency in 10 of the 6,208 public GitHub projects set up for AI coding agents that we scanned, too few to describe it from them alone. Our scan also samples projects by dependency (Solana 2,661, Ethereum and EVM 1,496, 3D and games 2,818, agent frameworks and SDKs 10,983); counting those, it appears in 20 projects, and what it is used with below comes from all of them. Projects that use it most often also use Vitest (65.0%), lint-staged (40.0%), TypeScript (80.0%).
secretlint popularity over time
Gid Score 27: downloads n/a, use in agent projects 28, GitHub stars 18, downloads trend 62 (each 0-100). How it is calculated.
Often used with secretlint
| Vitest | 65.0% of secretlint projects · 3.2× more than average |
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| lint-staged | 40.0% of secretlint projects · 5.1× more than average |
| TypeScript | 80.0% of secretlint projects · 1.5× more than average |
| Biome | 30.0% of secretlint projects · 5.3× more than average |
| Commander | 30.0% of secretlint projects · 10.8× more than average |
| Knip | 25.0% of secretlint projects · 10.9× more than average |
| oxlint | 25.0% of secretlint projects · 8.3× more than average |
| repomix | 25.0% of secretlint projects · 194.0× more than average |
From all 20 projects in our scan that use secretlint, including the dependency samples.
By coding agent
| Claude Code | 0.2% of projects set up for it |
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Share of public repos configured for each agent that list secretlint as a dependency.
How secretlint is funded
GitHub Sponsors
| @azu | 81 current sponsors |
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GitHub shows how many people and companies sponsor an account, not how much they pay. Sponsors of a person back all of their work, which here includes textlint, request-filtering-agent.
Ways to fund secretlint
As the maintainers list them in FUNDING.yml on GitHub. Checked Oct 20, 2026.
Install
| Package | npm install @secretlint/secretlint-rule-preset-recommend |
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| Main stacks | TypeScript / JavaScript (13), Python (4), Next.js (3) |
| Example projects | yamadashy/repomix, dyoshikawa/rulesync, kovrichard/catalyst, yamadashy/slack-channels-grouping, microsoft/edge-ai |
Alternatives to secretlint
In our scan, none of the most used tools in Auth and security libraries does the same job as secretlint: they are add-ons, companions or tools for a different task.
More in Auth and security libraries: bcryptjs NextAuth.js jsonwebtoken cryptography PyJWT jose Better Auth Helmet