The full Snyk AI Security Platform, free for open source maintainers

Finding issues is easier than ever. Triaging and fixing them is what's scarce. Through Snyk's Secure Developer Program, open source maintainers get the signal to cut through the noise and the platform to fix what matters, free for their open source projects.

And Snyk is going further: the new Snyk Remediation Agent, in open preview in the CLI for design partners, pairs frontier-model reasoning with Snyk’s intelligence layer to produce validated, merge-ready fixes, so fixing can finally keep pace with finding. More on that below.

The hard part isn't finding bugs anymore

Almost every application we use is built on open source. Industry estimates put it at 80-90% of the average codebase, most of which are transitive dependencies of dependencies that nobody chose on purpose. The security of that foundation rests on open source maintainers, the people who triage the issues, review pull requests, and ship the releases that the rest of the software world depends on.

Most OSS maintainers do it for free and do it alone.

AI changed the shape of this work. The slop wave that buried maintainers in low-quality, AI-generated reports has largely passed as the models improved. What's left is harder: a flood of real vulnerability reports, often duplicated by different researchers prompting the same models, arriving faster than any one maintainer can triage, rank, or fix. Finding is no longer the bottleneck. Sorting real from noise and shipping fixes is.

There is real risk behind that volume. This year, a hijacked maintainer account pushed a remote-access trojan into Axios, a library downloaded close to 100 million times a week, and the same method compromised trusted security tooling and AI infrastructure. Attackers have realized the fastest way into thousands of applications is through one maintainer. And exploit timelines keep shrinking, with Gartner predicting AI will accelerate exploit time by 50% by 2027.

What the Secure Developer Program gives you

Supporting open source maintainers isn’t new for Snyk. We were built on open source security and have long offered our developer tools free to qualifying open source projects. Today, Snyk secures more than 585,000 open source projects. The Secure Developer Program takes that commitment further.

That is where the Secure Developer Program focuses. Not on handing maintainers another scanner, but on the two things actually in short supply: knowing which issues are important, and getting them fixed. Maintainers get the full Snyk AI Security Platform, free, with risk-based prioritization and remediation at the center. We’re making maintainers faster than the attackers.

That means you can:

• Strategically burn down vulnerability backlogs. Open source maintainers should not have to rely solely on severity. Snyk provides context such as exploitability, reachability, asset criticality, and fix efficiency to sequence remediation work.

• Action remediation faster, with automated fix pull requests for vulnerable dependencies in Snyk Open Source, including the deep transitive ones that legacy tools miss.

• Catch issues in your own code with Snyk Code, fast enough to live in your workflow, agentic or not.

• Secure your images and infrastructure config with Snyk Container and Snyk IaC.

This is the same platform the largest companies in the world pay for, donated to the maintainers who hold the ecosystem up. All Snyk asks in return is a "Sponsored by Snyk" link on your project page.

The program has been running for about a year and is already trusted by more than 60 projects, including Postiz and Arcane.

Snyk is putting the fix engine in maintainers' hands too

Finding problems has only ever been half the job. The harder half is fixing them as fast as they arrive, and that is where Snyk is investing now.

Snyk Remediation Agent (currently in open preview in the CLI for design partners) pairs frontier-model reasoning with Snyk's intelligence layer to produce validated, merge-ready fixes for Snyk Open Source (SCA) and Snyk Code (SAST) issues. It is experimental with broader coverage in development. The goal is to give maintainers a way to burn down the backlog of real issues faster than attackers can reach them.

Our benchmarking shows that providing Snyk context to models improves SCA fix rate by ~94%, and SAST fix rate climbs from 72% merge-ready fixes to 82%. And it reduces token cost by ~61%. This is the power we want to equip the open source community with.

If you want to help shape where this goes, maintainers in the program can get early access.

Apply today

You secure everyone's software, but you shouldn't have to do it alone. Apply at snyk.io/open-source. Snyk stands with open source.