kova-secret-scanning-maintainer

To remediate GitHub secret scanning alerts, this redaction process fetches alert data with hide_secret=true, writes secret-bearing content only to secured temp files, and deletes and recreates comments to prevent plaintext leaks through edit history.

Secret redaction for issue and PR comments works by replacing comment content while preserving thread integrity, deleting and recreating comments rather than editing them to ensure plaintext secrets are not accessible through edit history.

You can redact secrets from discussion comments, but commit locations are unsupported. The workflow handles issue_comment, pull_request_comment, pull_request_review_comment, discussion_comment, issue_body, and pull_request_body locations, skipping unsupported types with reporting.

Processing multiple GitHub secret scanning alerts as a maintainer requires deterministic scripted API and GraphQL operations that route actions by location type, redact leaked values, post English notifications, and resolve alerts safely.

This workflow avoids printing alert URLs, alert numbers, and secrets in public output to maintain security compliance and prevent sensitive alert metadata from being exposed during the incident response and remediation process.

Yes, resolving GitHub secret scanning alerts requires repo-admin permissions within the maintainer workflow to triage alerts, redact leaked secret values, post notifications, and safely resolve the security incident.