Onboarding Developers to AI-Assisted Workflows With Security Built In

Short summary

BrassCoders is an Apache 2.0 security scanner designed to catch failure modes specific to AI-assisted code, such as phantom API calls and hardcoded secrets. The article walks through a three-layer setup — local CLI, pre-commit hook, and CI gate — that can be in place before a new developer pushes their first commit. While the content is genuinely useful and tutorial-grade, it is also a product introduction for BrassCoders with significant self-promotion.

• •Three-layer security setup: local CLI, pre-commit hook, CI gate for AI-assisted code
• •BrassCoders catches structural failure modes AI assistants introduce (secrets, phantom API calls)
• •Install via pip, Apache 2.0, zero outbound network calls by default, YAML output at every layer

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