AI Code Security in 2026: The Complete Resource Guide
Written by Rafter Team
February 1, 2026
AI is writing more code than ever. Cursor, Bolt, Replit, v0, and a dozen other platforms let you ship features in minutes. AI agents execute code, call APIs, and manage infrastructure autonomously. The productivity gains are real. So are the security gaps.
This guide organizes everything we've published on AI code security into a single reference. Start wherever your risk is highest.
AI Agent Security
AI agents introduce attack surfaces that traditional web apps don't have. An agent with tool access, API credentials, and autonomous decision-making can be hijacked, tricked into leaking data, or manipulated into destructive actions.
Start here: Open Claw Security Audit: Full Series Overview — a 10-part deep dive into every vulnerability class we found in a real multi-platform AI agent.
Threat categories
- Prompt Injection Attacks: The #1 AI Agent Security Risk — how attackers hijack agents through malicious instructions
- Tool Misuse and Over-Privileged Access — scoping agent permissions with least privilege
- Data Leakage and Secrets Management — preventing accidental exposure of keys, credentials, and PII
- Supply Chain Security for AI Agents — vetting plugins, models, and dependencies
- Multi-Tenant Isolation — preventing cross-user data leaks
Architecture and defense
- AI Agent Architecture: Threat Modeling Your Attack Surface — mapping trust boundaries before deployment
- When Your AI Agent Is the Vulnerability — designing for hallucinations and unsafe autonomy
- Security Controls: A Defense-in-Depth Architecture — layered controls for auth, sandboxing, rate limiting, and audit
- Red Teaming AI Agents — actionable test scenarios for prompt injection, tool abuse, and data leakage
- Incident Response Playbook — containment and recovery when an agent gets compromised
Practical guides
- When Your AI Agent Becomes the Hacker — how insecure plugin and tool use turns agents into attack vectors
- AI Incident Response: What to Do When You're Jailbroken — step-by-step from detection to post-mortem
- Securing Indie AI Stacks: Complete Tooling Roundup — curated list of AI security tools for indie devs
- Building a Threat Model for Your AI App in 30 Minutes — practical checklist approach
Vibe Coding Security
Vibe coding platforms optimize for speed. Security is an afterthought — if it's a thought at all. We've audited the major platforms and documented what we found.
- Why You Need Independent Security Audits for Vibe-Coded Apps — the case for third-party review
- How to Thoroughly Test Your Vibe-Coded App — testing beyond "it works"
- Vibe Coding Is Great — Until It Isn't — why security matters even when shipping fast
Platform-specific audits
- Bolt.new Security Audit
- Base44 Security Audit
- Emergent Security Audit
- Replit Security Audit
- v0 Security Audit
- Lovable Security Audit
Framework Vulnerabilities
- RSC Vulnerabilities in Next.js: December 2025 Pt. 2 — two React Server Components vulnerabilities affecting Next.js App Router
- Critical React Vulnerability: December 2025
- State of AI for Coding: Power, Speed, and Security Risk — the security landscape in January 2026
Research
- ARTEMIS: Autonomous AI Red Teaming Explained — an autonomous system that finds real-world vulnerabilities by thinking like an attacker
- VulnLLM-R: The Reasoning LLM That Finds Real Vulnerabilities — benchmarking reasoning models for vulnerability detection
Foundational Knowledge
New to application security? Start with the fundamentals.
- OWASP Top 10: 2026 Developer Guide — the ten most critical web application security risks
- Vulnerabilities Crash Course — everything a developer needs to know
- Securing AI-Generated Code: Best Practices — the baseline for any AI-assisted workflow
- CI/CD Security Best Practices — protecting your deployment pipeline
- Automated Security Scanning: CI/CD Protection in 5 Minutes — getting started with Rafter
API Key Security
Leaked API keys are the most common — and most preventable — security incident in AI projects.
- API Keys Explained: Secure Usage for Developers — fundamentals of key management
- Exposed API Keys: The Silent Killer of Projects — how keys leak and what happens when they do
- Why AI Projects Leak API Keys More Than Any Other Apps
- Top 10 Tools for Detecting API Key Leaks
- Stripe API Keys: Test vs Live and Secure Use — Stripe-specific key management
This guide is updated as we publish new content. Last updated February 2026.