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Original: Simon Willison · 06/04/2026

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Summary

The release of scan-for-secrets 0.3 introduces a new redaction option that allows users to confirm and replace matches with ‘REDACTED’.

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Key Insights

“New -r/—redact option which shows the list of matches, asks for confirmation and then replaces every match with REDACTED.” — Description of the new feature in scan-for-secrets 0.3
“New Python function redact_file(file_path: str | Path, secrets: list[str], replacement: str = ‘REDACTED’) -> int.” — Introduction of a new function in the release

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Full Article

New -r/—redact option which shows the list of matches, asks for confirmation and then replaces every match with REDACTED, taking escaping rules into account. New Python function redact_file(file_path: str | Path, secrets: list[str], replacement: str = “REDACTED”) -> int.

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Originally published at https://simonwillison.net/2026/Apr/6/scan-for-secrets/#atom-everything.