"""Cloud-sync config for tasks-app — a realistic snapshot of what an AI hands you. Asked to "sync tasks to a cloud service," a model will cheerfully produce something like this: it works, it reads naturally, it passes lint and tests... and it has a live credential baked straight into the source. That is the *exact* failure mode Module 15's secret-scanning gate exists to catch. DO NOT copy this pattern. The point of this file is to be caught by a scanner, not imitated. The fix (read from the environment) is shown at the bottom, commented out, so you can see the difference once Part C of the lab is done. """ # --- The problem the scanner should flag ------------------------------------------------------- # A hardcoded API key. Looks like a normal string literal; lint and tests will never complain. SYNC_API_KEY = "sk_live_9c3f2a7b41d84e0fa6b2c5d8e1f09a73bdac46" SYNC_ENDPOINT = "https://api.example-task-cloud.com/v1/sync" def sync_headers() -> dict: return {"Authorization": f"Bearer {SYNC_API_KEY}"} # --- The fix (Part C) -------------------------------------------------------------------------- # Read the secret from the environment instead of committing it. Proper secret management — env # files, secret stores, per-environment config — is Module 17. This is just enough to make the # scanner go quiet honestly. # # import os # SYNC_API_KEY = os.environ["SYNC_API_KEY"] # set it outside the repo; never commit the value