# Check whether a secret still works

> Ask a landed secret's issuer whether it still works, and mark the alert active or inactive.

<div class="g1t-endpoint"><span class="g1t-method" data-method="post">POST</span><code>/repos/{owner}/{name}/secret-scanning/alerts/{id}/validity</code></div>

The check is the issuer's own read-only identity call over HTTPS; the secret goes nowhere else. Needs validity checks on for the workspace (and the g1t plan on a private repository). Formats with no safe check answer unsupported.

Made for GitHub, GitLab, Stripe, Slack, npm, OpenAI, Anthropic and SendGrid tokens, with the issuer's own read-only call. Other formats answer `unsupported`; a secret that never landed answers `unknown`.

- **Authentication:** Required. Send an [access token](/reference/api/#authentication) as `Authorization: Bearer`.
- **MCP tool:** [`security`](/reference/mcp/#security) with `action` `check_validity`, and the same inputs
- **Scope:** An access token needs [`security:write`](/guides/authentication/#scopes).

## Path parameters

| Name | Type | Required | Description |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| `owner` | string | Yes | The workspace that owns the repository. |
| `name` | string | Yes | The repository's name. |
| `id` | string | Yes | The alert's id: sec_… |

## Example request

```sh
curl -X POST https://api.g1t.sh/repos/flagon-io/hello/secret-scanning/alerts/sec_01kq2m7d4e5f6g7h8j9k0m1n2p/validity \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $G1T_TOKEN"
```

## Example response

A successful request answers `200` with:

```json
{
  "id": "sec_01kq2m7d4e5f6g7h8j9k0m1n2p",
  "repo_id": "rep_01kp0a1b2c3d4e5f6g7h8j9k0m",
  "kind": "github_token",
  "label": "a GitHub token",
  "path": "scripts/release.sh",
  "line": 12,
  "commit": "4807077b296e6edbf410d55e72749d3e1170c291",
  "preview": "ghp_X7…",
  "status": "open",
  "source": "push",
  "found_by": "syntaqx",
  "found_at": "2026-10-06T09:14:02.118Z",
  "decided_by": null,
  "reason": null,
  "decided_at": null,
  "dismissed_reason": null,
  "test_value": null,
  "state": "open",
  "validity": "active",
  "validity_checked_at": "2026-10-06T09:20:41.502Z",
  "bypass": {
    "reason": "will_fix_later",
    "comment": "Rotating it this afternoon.",
    "by": "syntaqx",
    "at": "2026-10-06T09:14:02.118Z",
    "approved_by": null
  },
  "pattern_id": null,
  "pattern_name": null,
  "locations": 1
}
```

## Errors

A failed request answers with one of these statuses and a body like `{"error": {"code": "not_found", "message": "Repository not found."}}`. See [errors](/reference/api/#errors).

| Status | Code | When |
| --- | --- | --- |
| 401 | `unauthenticated` | A token is required, or the one sent is not valid. |
| 403 | `forbidden` | The token is valid but not allowed to do this, such as a member-only change or an agent token outside its repository. |
| 404 | `not_found` | It does not exist, or you cannot see it. |
| 409 | `conflict` | The request conflicts with the current state. |
| 422 | `invalid` | The input is not valid. `message` says which field and why. |