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secret/github-oauth

GitHub OAuth Access Token

criticalSecret patternsecretCWE-798

What it detects

OAuth access token issued by GitHub (user-to-server).

How it runs

Run against every text file in the repo (with a binary-content filter and a `.repoguardignore` filter for fixtures). The matched value is masked before being persisted.

Found a false positive or want this rule tuned? File an issue. You can also suppress per-repo via a .repoguardignore line.