# michenriksen/gitrob

Reconnaissance tool for GitHub organizations

Repository: https://github.com/michenriksen/gitrob
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/gitrob
Homepage: https://michenriksen.com/blog/gitrob-now-in-go/
Language: Go
License: MIT
License Family: permissive
Topics: security, osint, github-api, golang
Archived: true
Last push: 2022-09-20T18:09:09+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 10/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 0, release rhythm 8, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 4256, "days_push": 1443, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: archived
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 6198, forks 842 (observed 2026-08-28T04:09:39.727087+00:00)

## What it is
Gitrob is a Go-based reconnaissance tool that scans GitHub users' and organizations' public repositories for potentially sensitive files by analyzing commit history against configurable signatures. Findings are presented through a local web interface and can be saved to JSON session files for later analysis.

## Use cases
- find leaked secrets in a github organization's public repos
- scan commit history for sensitive files like keys and credentials
- osint reconnaissance on github users before an assessment
- audit what sensitive data employees pushed to public repositories
- browse and share scan findings through a web interface

## When to choose
- you need to assess an organization's public GitHub exposure for leaked credentials
- you want a CLI tool with a web UI for browsing findings and shareable session files

## When to avoid
- you need to scan private repositories or non-GitHub forges like GitLab
- you need actively maintained tooling - the last release was 2022 and the repo is in maintenance mode

## Facets
- artifact type: cli-tool
- maturity: maintenance
- function: osint, security, search-engine, http-server
- domain: security, osint, developer-tools
- platform: windows, cli, go
- tags: github, secret-detection, reconnaissance, commit-history-scanning, linux, macos

## Member repositories
- michenriksen/gitrob (main) score 10

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:09:39.727087+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-29T17:47:20.704369+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/michenriksen/gitrob (fetched 2026-08-28T04:09:39.727087+00:00, sha 4d1b77b666f3)
  - homepage: https://michenriksen.com/blog/gitrob-now-in-go/ (fetched 2026-08-29T08:43:48.610822+00:00, sha 6adcda4acf66)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.