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kkloudtarus/synapse-ce — explained in plain English

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31GoAudience · developerComplexity · 4/5LicenseSetup · moderate

tl;dr

A governed security scanning tool that combines vulnerability detection, software bill of materials, license checks, and tamper-evident reporting for authorized penetration testing.

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  root((Synapse))
    What it does
      Vulnerability scanning
      SBOM generation
      License checks
      Secret scanning
    Tech stack
      Go
      Docker
      Syft and Grype
    Use cases
      CI security gate
      Pentest evidence
      Compliance reporting
    Audience
      Security teams
      DevOps engineers
    Safety
      Scope enforcement
      Tamper evident evidence

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what do people make with this?

VIBE 1

Scan a codebase for known vulnerabilities before shipping

VIBE 2

Generate a software bill of materials for compliance

VIBE 3

Run automated security checks as part of a CI pipeline

VIBE 4

Produce tamper evident evidence for a security audit

what's the stack?

GoDockerCycloneDXSPDXSARIF

how it stacks up fr

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Stars313131
LanguageGoGoGo
Setup difficultymoderateeasyeasy
Complexity4/53/52/5
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how do i run it?

Difficulty · moderate time til it works · 30min

Full sandboxed scanning and live recon need a Linux host, Docker is the easiest way to run everything.

Apache 2.0 license lets you use, modify, and distribute the code freely, including commercially, as long as you keep copyright and license notices.

in plain english

Synapse is a security tool built for teams doing authorized security testing, such as penetration testing engagements and defensive security work. It brings together several tasks that security teams usually handle with separate tools: scanning a codebase for known vulnerabilities, generating a software bill of materials, checking licenses, finding secrets accidentally left in code, and catching misconfigured infrastructure files. All of this happens behind a single gate, and the tool is built to run inside a company's own controlled process rather than as a loose collection of scripts. A key idea behind Synapse is that scanning results should be reproducible: the same code should always produce the same report, with no unpredictable model output sitting in the final report path. Any place where automated analysis is used, results are checked by a distinct verifier or a human before anything happens. Every piece of evidence collected during a scan is linked together so tampering can be detected, and if that chain is broken the report will not be produced. Synapse also checks whether a vulnerable piece of code is actually reachable from the rest of the program, rather than just flagging every match against a vulnerability database. This helps teams focus on real risk instead of chasing every possible match. It supports many programming ecosystems, including npm, PyPI, Maven, Go, and Cargo, and can output in standard formats used by other security tools. To try it, users can download a prebuilt binary and run a scan from the command line, use a Docker container that already includes the needed tools, or run the entire system including its web dashboard with Docker Compose. Running it fully requires a Linux machine to unlock hardened, sandboxed execution of underlying tools, though the core scanning and reporting still work without that. The project is licensed under Apache 2.0 and is written primarily in Go.

prompts (copy fr)

prompt 1
Show me how to run synapse-cli to scan my project folder and fail the build on high severity issues.
prompt 2
Explain how Synapse's reachability analysis decides if a vulnerability actually matters for my code.
prompt 3
Walk me through setting up the full Synapse stack with Docker Compose on my machine.
prompt 4
Help me add the Synapse GitHub Action to my CI workflow to gate pull requests.

Frequently asked questions

what is synapse-ce fr?

A governed security scanning tool that combines vulnerability detection, software bill of materials, license checks, and tamper-evident reporting for authorized penetration testing.

What language is synapse-ce written in?

Mainly Go. The stack also includes Go, Docker, CycloneDX.

What license does synapse-ce use?

Apache 2.0 license lets you use, modify, and distribute the code freely, including commercially, as long as you keep copyright and license notices.

How hard is synapse-ce to set up?

Setup difficulty is rated moderate, with roughly 30min to a first successful run.

Who is synapse-ce for?

Mainly developer.

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