Why ShadowOps exists
AI tools made everyone a developer. Security tools didn't get the memo.
This is a short story about a gap between who is shipping code and who the tooling was built for.
Cursor, Lovable, v0, Bolt — these tools changed something real. They let anyone go from idea to working app in a weekend. That's genuinely good. But that code is often full of security holes the creator can't see, because they didn't write it line by line and don't have the background to audit it. Exposed API keys, open databases, broken auth, wildcard CORS — shipping to production, completely invisible.
I looked at the existing options. Snyk, Semgrep — solid tools, built for security teams. They output CWE codes and CVSS scores and expect you to know what a server-side request forgery chain looks like. That's the right language if you're a security engineer. It's completely useless if you just vibe-coded a SaaS over a weekend and want to know if it's safe to share the URL.
So I built the thing I wanted. ShadowOps scans your repo and tells you, in plain English, what's wrong, why it matters, and what to change. It also tells you what it didn'tcheck — because a tool that says “all clear” without checking everything is worse than one that's honest about its limits.
“A tool that tells you 'you're safe' without checking everything is worse than nothing.”
Precision over recall. Honest about limits. Always.
What we believe
Security shouldn't be gatekept by jargon.
If you can't understand a finding, you can't fix it. Every ShadowOps result is written for the person who built the code — not the person who audits it for a living.
Honest about limits, always.
Every scan report tells you what we checked and what we didn't. "No findings" means we didn't find the things we looked for — not that you're safe. That distinction matters.
Built for the people actually shipping.
Not security teams. Not enterprises with compliance budgets. The people who shipped something this weekend and want to know if they should worry.
Who built this
The founder
Building in public
I'm not a VC-backed startup or a team of security researchers. I'm a developer who got tired of watching people ship vulnerable code because the existing tools weren't built for them. ShadowOps is the tool I wanted to exist. I hope it helps you too.
Questions? hello@shadowops.in