Kleared

Cline security audit

Using Cline? Autonomous coding needs manual security review.

Cline runs commands. That changes the threat model. The same agent that writes your tests can rm -rf production resources, rewrite IAM policies, or push secrets to a public branch. Treat agentic coding tools as privileged, and audit accordingly.

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Common problems

What we keep finding in Cline codebases.

  • Unsafe terminal execution

    Cline can generate and run terminal actions that modify infrastructure without proper review — deleting production resources, changing IAM permissions, exposing deployment secrets.

    Example
    An agent run aimed at “cleaning up unused buckets” deletes a production logging bucket because the bucket name was never explicitly excluded.

  • Deployment misconfiguration

    Autonomous setup creates overly permissive environments — wildcard IAM, public buckets, exposed environment variables — because the agent picked the “works on the first try” option.

  • Infrastructure drift

    Repeated AI-driven changes create inconsistent environments over time. The system that was secure a month ago no longer is, and no one wrote down what changed.

Prompt fixes

What to tell the model.

Paste these into your next conversation. They steer generation toward safer defaults — but they aren't a substitute for review.

  • For: Unsafe terminal execution

    “Require human approval before any infrastructure, terminal, or deployment action. Never execute destructive changes automatically.”

  • For: Deployment misconfiguration

    “Use least-privilege permissions, private environment variables, and explicit production hardening for every deployment.”

  • For: Infrastructure drift

    “Document infrastructure changes, require approval workflows, and validate security posture before every production deploy.”

Manual verification

The Cline checklist.

Run through each item by hand before you ship. If anything is unclear, treat it as a red flag, not a green light.

  • Review the last 30 days of terminal commands the agent executed.
  • Audit IAM policies for wildcards introduced by automated runs.
  • Confirm every production secret lives in a managed store, not in a Repl or .env.
  • Verify deployments require human approval for any destructive action.
  • Cross-check current infrastructure against the last known-good Terraform/IaC state.

If issues are already live

Damage control, in order.

If you suspect any of the above already shipped to real users, work the list top-to-bottom. Don’t skip rotation.

  1. 1Review deployment permissions for least-privilege violations.
  2. 2Audit cloud IAM access — especially anything created in the last 30 days.
  3. 3Rotate exposed deployment secrets immediately.
  4. 4Inspect terminal history for destructive actions and confirm intent.
  5. 5Restore IaC to a reviewed baseline before resuming agent-driven changes.

Why AI-generated fixes still fail

The model that wrote the bug rarely sees it.

Same blind spots

The patterns that produced the vulnerability are baked into the model's training. Asking it to audit itself reproduces the same assumptions.

Context windows lie

The model sees the file you paste, not your auth middleware, your RLS policies, or the route you forgot to protect. It can't review what it can't see.

Confidence ≠ correctness

AI fixes look polished and read well. That's a signal of fluency, not of safety. Real verification needs a human who can hit the endpoint.

Don’t ask AI to audit AI

You wouldn’t let an intern grade their own homework.

Most builders type “is this secure?” back into the same chat that wrote the code. You need independent verification — someone whose context isn’t poisoned by what just got generated. That’s Kleared.

Autonomous coding should never mean autonomous trust.

Kleared audits what your agent changed — code, dependencies, and configuration — and opens fix-PRs you can review before they touch production.

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Before you launch

Run a real human security review.

Not another prompt. Kleared checks the boring stuff that breaks production:

  • auth
  • permissions
  • secrets
  • uploads
  • database exposure
  • API security
  • payment flows
  • production configs

So you can ship without guessing.

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