Claude Code became generally available in May, and since then, it has become popular among developers for its coding assistance, available right in the terminal or integrated development environments (IDEs). Now, new features are coming to Claude that make it easier to build safely, too. On Wednesday, Anthropic introduced automated security reviews in Claude Code. They allow developers to more easily identify and fix security concerns, and can be invoked either manually using the new "/security-review" command or automatically via the new GitHub Action for Claude Code. Also: Claude Code's new tool is all about maximizing ROI in your organization - how to try it "On demand or automatically, Claude will review the code that you're working on, the code that you're pushing, or your entire repository, and practically identify vulnerabilities and suggest ways to fix them," said Logan Graham, Frontier Red Team lead at Anthropic, to ZDNET. All developers have to do is invoke the /security-review command in Claude Code, which will trigger the security analysis in the terminal. Anthropic said Claude will then search the codebase, identify common vulnerabilities such as SQL injection risks, insecure data handling, and authentication flaws, and explain the issues found. "We want it to be, and I think we can get there soon if it's not there already, kind of like having the best security engineer or best senior software engineer, over shoulder, helping you do your work, better and securely...
Claude Code makes it easy to trigger a code check now with this simple command
ZDNet
·Sabrina Ortiz
·Published Aug 6, 2025
·Updated
Affected Software
1 affected component
anthropic Claude Code
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Claude Code now allows developers to easily trigger code checks directly from the terminal or within their IDEs.