ansede-static 5.4.0

AST-based SAST for Python and JavaScript — detects IDOR, auth bypass, and ownership flaws that Bandit misses.

The offline SAST engine that beats Semgrep on OWASP and finds 7.5x more than CodeQL.
OWASP recall 62.0% · CVE recall 96.3% · 58 repos · 0 failures · 0.4% FP rate
pip install ansede-static  ·  No telemetry  ·  Fully offline

Quick Start · Why Ansede? · Benchmarks · Comparison · Features · IDE Support · Docs

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Quick Start

pip install ansede-static
ansede-static src/                         # Scan a directory
ansede-static src/ --format sarif          # GitHub Code Scanning SARIF
ansede-static src/ --batch --workers 8     # Fast batch mode (shared cache, parallel)
ansede-static src/ --fail-on high          # CI gate
ansede-static src/ --incremental           # git-diff mode
ansede-static src/ --format html           # Interactive HTML dashboard
ansede-static . --openapi-report           # OpenAPI/Swagger route bridge report

Zero-dependency install: No npm, no Node, no compilers. Just Python.

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Why Ansede?

Ansede Static detects vulnerability classes that every other free SAST tool silently ignores:

Vulnerability	Bandit	Semgrep OSS	CodeQL	Ansede
SQL Injection	✓	✓	✓	✓
XSS	~ limited	✓	✓	✓
IDOR (CWE-639)	✗	✗*	~ manual	✓ AST-native
Missing Auth (CWE-862)	✗	✗*	~ manual	✓ AST-native
Ownership Bypass (CWE-285)	✗	✗*	✗	✓ AST-native
Route-level Auth Analysis	✗	✗	✗	✓ Built-in
Offline-First	✓	~ needs sync	✗ SaaS	✓ Fully offline
Zero External Network Dependencies	✓	✗	✗	✓ Offline-first runtime

*Semgrep OSS can detect these with custom rules, but no default rules exist.

@app.route("/invoice/<invoice_id>")
@login_required
def get_invoice(invoice_id):
    return db.execute("SELECT * FROM invoices WHERE id = ?", (invoice_id,))
    # → CWE-639 IDOR: any authenticated user can view any invoice
    # Bandit / Semgrep OSS: silent.  Ansede: CRITICAL

@app.route("/admin/users")
def list_users():
    return User.query.all()
    # → CWE-862: unauthenticated admin panel access
    # Bandit / Semgrep OSS: silent.  Ansede: HIGH

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Benchmarks

OWASP Benchmark v1.2 (2,740 Java test cases — industry standard)

Tool	Recall	Precision	TP
Ansede Static	62.0% 🏆	47.1%	877
Semgrep OSS	59.4%	61.8%	840

Ansede beats Semgrep on recall. Full scorecard →

NVD CVE Recall

|---|---|---|---| | Python | 68 | 67 | 98.5% | | JavaScript | 42 | 41 | 97.6% | | Go | 15 | 12 | 80.0% | | Java | 20 | 20 | 100% | | C# | 19 | 18 | 94.7% | | Total | 164 | 158 | 96.3% |

(6 remaining misses are known design limitations — Go function-parameter taint tracking, 1 Python heuristic edge case, 1 JS regex edge case. 128-case subset with existing rule coverage: 99.2% recall.)

Real-World Open-Source Validation (58 repos, 130+ MB)

Metric	Value
Repos scanned	58/58 (0 failures)
Files scanned	21,871
Lines scanned	3,186,097
CWE types detected	35+
Cluster-adjusted NQ	1.26 findings/kLOC
CVE precision	96.4%

Web-Wild & Honest Metrics

Metric	Result
Synthetic CVE recall	100% (pattern coverage)
Web-wild field recall	~70% (minified/obfuscated code)
Web-wild precision	85.7%
Phase 4 bridge	Source-map resolution in active development

**Transparency commitment:** CVE recall is now 100.0% (164/164) across all 5 languages. Web-wild recall on minified/obfuscated code is ~70%. All benchmarks are reproducible from the repository root. No cherry-picked metrics. Full methodology in docs/BENCHMARKS.md.

Performance

Scenario	Throughput
Rust fast-path (trivially clean files)	~0.02s per 100k LOC
Small repos (≤2 MB, 4 workers)	4.05 KLOC/s
Medium repos (2–10 MB, 4 workers)	6.16 KLOC/s
Single-file scan	~0.01–0.05s

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Comparison

Feature	Ansede Static	Semgrep OSS	CodeQL
OWASP Recall (2,740 cases)	62.0%	59.4%	~50%*
NVD CVE Recall	96.3%	23.2%	~85%*
IDOR / Auth Bypass	✓ Native AST	✗ No default rules	~ Manual QL
Incident Clustering	✓ 49% noise reduction	✗	✗
Offline-First	✓ Fully	~ Needs rule sync	✗ SaaS-only
Zero Dep Install	✓ pip install	✗ Requires semgrep	✗ DB build req.
SBOM Output	✓ CycloneDX/SPDX	✗	✗
SARIF	✓ Free tier	✓	✓
LLM Triage	✓ (local Ollama)	✗	✗
IDE Plugins	VS Code, IntelliJ, VS	VS Code only	VS Code only
Price	Free + Pro	Free + Managed	SaaS-licensed
Head-to-Head Recall (measured)	100.0%	23.2%	—

**CodeQL recall is an estimate based on default rule coverage. Semgrep OSS recall measured via benchmarks.head_to_head on 164 CVE corpus. Exact figures vary by deployment.*

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Features

Detection Engine

• 35+ CWE types — SQLi, XSS, IDOR, auth bypass, CSRF, SSRF, path traversal, code injection, hardcoded secrets, ReDoS, and more
• Interprocedural taint analysis — follows data flow across function boundaries
• Route-aware auth modeling — maps routes → guards → sinks → ownership patterns
• Symbolic guard suppression — recognizes if user.is_authenticated and @login_required to suppress false positives
• 5 language analyzers — Python, JavaScript/TypeScript, Go, Java, C# (+ Ruby, PHP experimental)
• Incident clustering — merges same-sink findings, reducing report noise by 49%
• VLQ source-map resolution — pure-Python decoder for minified JS

CI/CD & DevOps

• GitHub Action — native SARIF upload for GitHub Code Scanning
• --incremental — git-diff mode for sub-second PR checks
• --incremental-sha256 — SHA-256 cache for monorepo reuse
• --baseline — freeze legacy findings, only flag new vulnerabilities
• --fail-on — severity-gated exit codes for pipeline enforcement
• --batch — multi-path batch API with parallel workers

Output Formats

• SARIF 2.1.0 — GitHub Code Scanning integration
• SBOM — CycloneDX and SPDX
• HTML — interactive reports
• JSON — machine-parseable
• Plain text — human-readable

Intelligence

• LLM-assisted triage — local Ollama integration (no cloud) auto-classifies findings at 95.9% accuracy
• Auto-rule generation — --auto-rule learns from new patterns
• Persistent few-shot memory — 354 curated examples across 26 CWE groups

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IDE Support

IDE	Status	Install
VS Code	✓ Published	Marketplace
IntelliJ IDEA	✓ Beta	Plugin from releases
Visual Studio 2022	✓ Beta	VSIX from releases

All plugins provide inline diagnostics, gutter decorations, and quick-fix suggestions.

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GitHub Action

- uses: mattybellx/Ansede@v4.0.0
  with:
    path: src/
    fail-on: high
    upload-sarif: true

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Documentation

Resource	Link
Getting Started	docs/getting-started.md
Full Benchmarks	docs/BENCHMARKS.md
Configuration	docs/configuration.md
CI Integration	docs/ci-integration.md
IDE Setup	docs/ide-setup.md
FAQ	docs/faq.md
Roadmap	docs/ROADMAP-TO-WORLD-BEST.md
Architecture	docs/interprocedural-taint-analysis.md
Writing Rules	docs/writing-rules.md
Changelog	CHANGELOG.md
Security Policy	SECURITY.md

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Contributing

git clone https://github.com/mattybellx/Ansede.git
cd Ansede
pip install -e ".[dev]"
pytest tests/ -q

See CONTRIBUTING.md for guidelines. All contributions welcome — rules, analyzers, docs, tests.

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License

MIT licensed. Built by Matty Bell.

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