Betterleaks – A New Open-Source Tool to Scan Directories, Files, and Git Repositories

Betterleaks is a new open-source secrets scanner released as a drop-in replacement for Gitleaks and sponsored by Aikido Security. The announcement highlights its Pure Go architecture, token-efficiency scanning using BPE tokenization, CEL-based validation rules, parallelized Git scanning, default encoding detection, expanded rule coverage, and a v2 roadmap that includes LLM-assisted classification, auto-revocation, and permissions mapping; the project is maintained by a small multi-org team and is available on GitHub.