Anthropic Launches Free AI Vulnerability Scanner for Open-Source Projects

Summary

Anthropic unveiled OSS Scanner, an opt-in service that runs periodic security scans on open-source projects using its strongest models at no cost. Outputs are fully model-generated and do not require human review or triage. Maintainers enroll by opening a pull request on the OSS Scanner's GitHub repository with a YAML configuration file.

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