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POST/api/v1/security/code-scan

Scan code for security issues

Static analysis (regex + taint) of a code snippet, with an optional opt-in LLM-semantic SAST pass (requires orgId for the org's BYOK key). Returns findings + severity counts.

Authentication

Send Authorization: Bearer YOUR_API_KEY on every request. Generate API keys at /dashboard/api-keys.

Request body required

Example

{
  "code": "<Source code to scan.>",
  "language": "typescript",
  "semantic": false,
  "orgId": "00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000",
  "provider": "string",
  "model": "string",
  "confidenceThreshold": 0
}
Schema
{
  "application/json": {
    "schema": {
      "type": "object",
      "properties": {
        "code": {
          "type": "string",
          "minLength": 1,
          "maxLength": 500000,
          "description": "Source code to scan."
        },
        "language": {
          "type": "string",
          "enum": [
            "typescript",
            "javascript",
            "python"
          ],
          "description": "Optional language hint; defaults to typescript."
        },
        "semantic": {
          "type": "boolean",
          "description": "Opt-in LLM-semantic SAST pass."
        },
        "orgId": {
          "type": "string",
          "format": "uuid",
          "pattern": "^([0-9a-fA-F]{8}-[0-9a-fA-F]{4}-[1-8][0-9a-fA-F]{3}-[89abAB][0-9a-fA-F]{3}-[0-9a-fA-F]{12}|00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000|ffffffff-ffff-ffff-ffff-ffffffffffff)$",
          "description": "Required when semantic=true (membership-checked for the BYOK key)."
        },
        "provider": {
          "type": "string",
          "minLength": 1,
          "maxLength": 40
        },
        "model": {
          "type": "string",
          "minLength": 1,
          "maxLength": 80
        },
        "confidenceThreshold": {
          "type": "number",
          "minimum": 0,
          "maximum": 10
        }
      },
      "required": [
        "code"
      ],
      "additionalProperties": false
    }
  }
}

Response

200 example

{
  "success": true
}

All status codes

200Scan findings + severity counts.
400(no description)
401(no description)
429(no description)

Code samples

cURL

curl -X POST \
  https://evalguard.ai/api/v1/security/code-scan \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $EVALGUARD_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{ "code": "<Source code to scan.>", "language": "typescript", "semantic": false, "orgId": "00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000", "provider": "string", "model": "string", "confidenceThreshold": 0 }'

TypeScript

import { EvalGuard } from "@evalguard/sdk";

const client = new EvalGuard({ apiKey: process.env.EVALGUARD_API_KEY });

const response = await client.request({
  method: "POST",
  path: "/api/v1/security/code-scan",
  body: {
    "code": "<Source code to scan.>",
    "language": "typescript",
    "semantic": false,
    "orgId": "00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000",
    "provider": "string",
    "model": "string",
    "confidenceThreshold": 0
  },
});
console.log(response);

Python

from evalguard import EvalGuard
import os

client = EvalGuard(api_key=os.environ["EVALGUARD_API_KEY"])

response = client.request(
    method="POST",
    path="/api/v1/security/code-scan",
    body={
    "code": "<Source code to scan.>",
    "language": "typescript",
    "semantic": False,
    "orgId": "00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000",
    "provider": "string",
    "model": "string",
    "confidenceThreshold": 0
},
)
print(response)

Go

package main

import (
	"context"
	"fmt"
	"net/http"
	"os"
	"strings"
)

func main() {
	body := strings.NewReader(`{"code":"<Source code to scan.>","language":"typescript","semantic":false,"orgId":"00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000","provider":"string","model":"string","confidenceThreshold":0}`)
	req, _ := http.NewRequestWithContext(context.Background(), "POST", "https://evalguard.ai/api/v1/security/code-scan", body)
	req.Header.Set("Authorization", "Bearer "+os.Getenv("EVALGUARD_API_KEY"))
	req.Header.Set("Content-Type", "application/json")
	resp, err := http.DefaultClient.Do(req)
	if err != nil { panic(err) }
	defer resp.Body.Close()
	fmt.Println(resp.Status)
}

Errors

400401429

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