Snyk Studio: Now for All Customers, Powering Secure AI Development at Scale

The way we build software has fundamentally changed. AI code assistants are no longer a novelty; they are the new standard, creating a revolutionary leap in developer productivity.

Back in May, we launched Snyk Studio with a focus on our partners, creating an open framework to build a vibrant ecosystem for securing AI-driven development. Our goal was to ensure that as the AI landscape evolved, Snyk’s market-leading security intelligence could be embedded into any AI-native tool.

Today, we are taking the next major step in that journey. We are officially extending Snyk Studio to our customers, evolving it from a partner framework into our complete product for securing the entire AI-driven development lifecycle.

To mark this evolution, we are thrilled to announce powerful new capabilities for deploying Snyk Studio, from a single developer to the entire enterprise. We are introducing a new streamlined, developer-first setup via the official Snyk VS Code extension. Alongside this, we are launching a powerful new enterprise rollout capability, allowing you to deploy Snyk Studio to your entire engineering team instantly. These new experiences are all powered by the General Availability (GA) of Snyk Studio's core integration engine - Snyk MCP Server.

New to Snyk and using Cursor, Windsurf, or Copilot? Get started with Snyk Studio using our VS Code extension in just a few clicks, or visit our quick start guides to integrate with other AI coding assistants. If you’re a Snyk old timer and have already installed the VS Code extension, use the extension settings to enable Snyk Studio.

The AI security gap: From inception to enterprise scale

The rapid adoption of AI has led to a massive leap in developer productivity, but it has also introduced a critical security gap. Organizations now face a two-front security challenge: a high-velocity stream of new, insecure AI-generated code is flooding their systems, while they still struggle to manage the old, existing debt of vulnerabilities in their backlogs. With research showing that nearly half of all AI-generated code is insecure, this problem is growing at an unprecedented rate.

Traditional "shift left" security, which tests code after it's written — whether in the IDE or later in the development process — is simply too slow for the speed of AI. By the time a scan runs, a developer may have already built upon dozens of insecure AI suggestions. The new imperative is to be "Secure at Inception" — embedding security intelligence directly into the AI development workflow to guide the AI to generate secure code from the very first prompt.

However, the real challenge is scaling this principle. An ad-hoc approach, where individual developers adopt their own security practices, is unsustainable for an enterprise. It leads to inconsistent security, high support overhead, and a lack of centralized governance. To succeed, organizations need a way to enable the entire engineering team to be secure by default, at scale.

Snyk Studio: Your complete solution for secure AI development

At Snyk, our guiding principle is that for security to succeed in the age of AI, it must be both frictionless for developers to adopt and governable for security teams to deploy. This is why we have evolved Snyk Studio from a partner framework into a comprehensive, enterprise-grade solution designed to address both aspects of the AI security challenge: preventing new risks at inception and intelligently remediating existing debt.

Get started in minutes: A developer-first experience

We’ve made it simple for individual developers to get started. Our quickstart guides provide simple instructions for the most popular coding assistants, and our official Snyk VS Code extension provides an instant, guided setup for Snyk Studio, immediately enabling security directives for AI assistants like Cursor and Windsurf. 

This setup includes a comprehensive set of "Secure at Inception" directives that are designed for immediate impact, instructing the AI to:

• Always run `snyk_code_scan` tool for new first-party code that is generated in a Snyk-supported language.

• If any security issues are found based on newly introduced or modified code or dependencies, attempt to fix the issues using the results context from Snyk.

• Rescan the code after fixing the issues to ensure that the known issues were resolved and that no new issues have been introduced. 

• Repeat this process until no new issues are found.

Developers can tweak the frequency at which these directives are invoked — whether automatically via 'On Code Generation,' a 'Manual' prompt, or a 'Smart Scan' — for security that fits their exact workflow.

Secure at Inception: Preventing new risk at enterprise scale

To translate the "Secure at Inception" vision into a scalable reality, we are proud to also introduce a new solution for the automated, enterprise-wide rollout of Snyk Studio. This capability is designed specifically for the complexities of large-scale enterprise environments, making Snyk's industry-leading security engines seamlessly accessible within any AI-driven development workflow.

Here’s how it works: administrators can use standard endpoint management solutions, like Jamf, to run a script that silently and automatically deploys Snyk Studio across the entire engineering organization. For tools like Cursor, Windsurf, or Copilot, this process instantly sets up the Snyk extension on all developer machines, enabling Snyk Studio automatically, though scripts can be extended or modified for any coding assistants.. The rollout comes pre-configured with the same baseline security directives listed above, ensuring every developer in your organization is aligned from the start.

The value of this approach is immediate. There is no developer adoption to manage or set up to request. This creates a frictionless, "secure by default" environment where every developer, from new hires to senior engineers, has Snyk's AI guardrails in place. Security becomes a consistent part of the AI-driven workflow, not an optional, ad-hoc check.

True to Snyk's 'dogfooding' culture, our first priority was proving this at-scale deployment with our own developers. 

“Our first goal was to solve the enterprise rollout challenge, and we did,” says Brian Rogan, VP of Engineering at Snyk. “We successfully deployed Snyk Studio to nearly 400 of our engineers. Now, our focus is on perfecting the developer experience — providing powerful security that feels like a natural, non-disruptive part of the AI workflow. We're committed to getting that balance right for our own teams first, which is the best validation we can offer our customers."

For more information on how to use this capability, refer to our product documentation.

We are continuing to iterate on and add new enterprise-grade features for this capability and invite interested customers to join us as design partners. If you'd like to help shape the future of at-scale secure AI-driven development, please reach out to your Snyk contact.

Intelligent remediation: Clearing existing security debt

Preventing new, AI-generated vulnerabilities is only half the battle. Most organizations are also struggling with a massive, existing backlog of security debt. Snyk Studio provides powerful capabilities to clear this debt through Intelligent Remediation.

Today, this is already transforming backlogs through conversational remediation. Developers can use natural language prompts within their AI assistant to understand existing vulnerabilities and trigger fixes. This approach, which keeps the developer in the loop and combines AI with Snyk's deep security intelligence, is enabling organizations to tackle their backlogs at unprecedented speed.

This has already proven highly effective. At Labelbox, for example, a single security engineer was able to clear a two-year-old backlog of high-severity issues in just a few weeks by pairing Snyk Studio with his AI assistant, Cursor.

“I was already using Cursor every day — it already made me more productive. Once I paired it with the MCP through Snyk Studio and pointed it at the backlog, it just clicked.” Aaron Bacchi

Security DevSecOps Engineer, LabelBox

The future of this use case, however, is shifting toward a more autonomous agent-led workflow, and we're excited to be building this future alongside our partners. Snyk Studio is already providing the security intelligence to help partner agents, like Cognition’s Devin, to autonomously plan and execute sophisticated code fixes. Our forthcoming remediation agent will further expand this vision. Stay tuned on this, as well as new partnerships coming soon!

The benefits of a complete, scaled solution

The ability to deploy Snyk Studio at scale, from a single developer to the entire enterprise, provides distinct and powerful advantages for every stakeholder.

• For security leaders: This provides a single, governable solution to manage AI-driven development. The enterprise rollout ensures 100% adoption, giving you immediate visibility and control. You can finally enforce a consistent security policy across all AI tools, addressing both new AI-generated risks ("Secure at Inception") and the existing security debt ("Intelligent Remediation").

• For engineering organizations: The new deployment options provide a flexible, frictionless path to a "secure by default" environment. You can empower your teams with a unified solution to both prevent new issues and fix old ones, removing the friction of security adoption and ensuring 100% consistency, all without slowing down innovation.

• For developers: This creates a complete security experience right inside their AI assistant. Developers get to use the tools they love, with the confidence that proactive security guardrails and automatic fixes are already in place. At the same time, they are empowered to fix existing code faster, using Snyk's deep security context to have their AI assistant remediate old vulnerabilities. It’s a single, unified solution that prevents new issues and accelerates fixing old ones, all without leaving the IDE.

From ad-hoc to automated, secure innovation

The era of AI-driven development is here, and with it comes both unprecedented opportunity and significant risk. To thrive, organizations must move beyond ad-hoc, developer-by-developer security measures and establish a scalable, governable, and secure-by-default program that addresses both new and existing threats.

Snyk Studio provides the foundation for this critical shift, offering a complete deployment story — from a single developer to a global enterprise. Developers can now get started in minutes with our streamlined VS Code extension setup, while administrators can use our new enterprise rollout capability to deploy Snyk Studio to their entire team. This evolution, powered by the General Availability of Snyk Studio's core integration engine, makes secure AI adoption a reality. 

By combining a proactive "Secure at Inception" approach to stop new vulnerabilities with intelligent, AI-powered remediation to clear existing debt, Snyk Studio enables you to confidently embrace the future of software development. You can finally turn the promise of AI-driven speed into a secure and sustainable reality.

To learn more about Snyk Studio, visit our website or sign up for our upcoming webinar on Thursday, November 13th @ 11AM Eastern where you can hear directly from our Product team about these exciting new capabilities.

New to Snyk and using Cursor, Windsurf, or Copilot? Get started with Snyk Studio using our VS Code extension in just a few clicks, or visit our quick start guides to integrate with other AI IDEs. If you’re a Snyk old timer and have already installed the VS Code extension, use the extension settings to enable Snyk Studio.