My credential rule reported 842 secrets in vercel/ai. The real count was 0.

Our no-hardcoded-credentials rule fired 842 times on vercel/ai. The peer plugin fired 380. I assumed we had better recall — until I sampled. 807 of the 'extra' findings were TypeScript union-type literals, error class names, and the string 'test'. The real number of hardcoded credentials was zero. Here's how a context-blind regex becomes a context-aware detector — and why AI assistants keep regenerating the exact strings that fool it.

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