A security checklist for your vibe-coded app before launch

Inspect the built assets for secrets, test server-side authorization with allowed and denied identities, and verify the app's data scope and direct provider URL. Check persistence, dependencies and failure behaviour, then have the accountable owner record a go/no-go decision for the exact release and environment. Fix unresolved exposure before broadening use.

This is a practical starting checklist for an internal tool. Adapt it to the application's data and consequences, and include specialists when the task requires them. OWASP's Application Security Verification Standard provides a broader reference for defining application requirements. Reviewed 31 October 2026: use its current guidance alongside the evidence for your own app; this page is not a completed assessment or a certification of the resulting application.

• OWASP application security verification guidance →

Review the source, production JavaScript and generated assets for credentials and private configuration. A browser can inspect what it receives even if a screen hides the relevant field. Keep privileged credentials on the server and use application-specific identities where appropriate. If a credential was exposed in a previous bundle, revoke or rotate it; removing the latest copy is not revocation.

Record the checked release and the action taken for any discovered value. Keep secret values out of screenshots, test notes and chats.

Inspect hard-coded arrays, JSON files, downloaded examples, source maps and static exports. Replace real records used during prototyping with suitable fictional fixtures. Check a fresh browser session to see what an unknown visitor can retrieve without logging in. An empty dashboard does not establish that the underlying fixture or download URL is inaccessible.

Keep an inventory of any sensitive artifact already published so the responsible team can assess the exposure and remove or restrict it.

Check whether the app's database or backing API can be queried without the intended identity. Test the actual production configuration through an authorized review of your own services. Do not infer safety from the app having a sign-in screen if its data endpoint accepts an anonymous request. Scope database policies and server queries to the intended user, organization or application task.

Verify that a direct request cannot retrieve records hidden by the front end, and preserve the observed result without recording unnecessary personal data.

List the custom domain, deployment origin and relevant preview URLs. Open each with a fresh session and a denied account, following the linked security guide's origin checks. Record the expected response and the observed result for every route.

Record which control protects each route and who maintains that configuration. Recheck after a domain change or a new deployment path is introduced.

• Review direct-access protection →

If your organization uses OIDC sign-in, test the configured flow with the intended membership and a denied identity. Provider controls such as Vercel Authentication or Cloudflare Access have their own setup and scope. Reviewed 31 October 2026: follow the current provider documentation and test the actual URLs; SpringRoll sign-in does not automatically configure an origin-side policy.

Keep identity distinct from authorization. A successful login identifies someone; it does not grant every business action or dataset the application can request.

• Vercel protection methods and scopes →
• Cloudflare Access application policies →

Perform the same request as an allowed user and a distinct user who should be denied. Include the underlying server endpoint rather than relying only on a disabled button. Where records are user- or team-specific, try accessing a record outside the permitted scope through your own test identities. The server must enforce the rule even when a client sends a modified request.

Record the expected decision and response for each identity, including the environment and release tested.

A reviewed release does not authorize every transaction inside the running app. Define who may propose a purchase, approve a credit or change a customer record, then enforce that rule on the server. Test a submitter attempting a reviewer-only action and a material edit after approval. Preserve the business decision separately from the application's deployment approval.

Keep the named decision owner involved when the generated workflow changes, instead of accepting a convenient default from the prototype.

Review the fields, rows, limits and expiry needed for a SpringRoll data product, or the separately approved native endpoints required by the task. Native endpoint responses follow the source account's permissions; do not assume data-product masking applies there. Use the application environment's identity and keep source credentials in the server-side connection.

Test an unauthorized request and a revoked grant. The interface should explain the denied access without silently switching to a broader credential.

• Review scoped gateway and native API access →

Validate inputs at the server boundary as well as in the form. Review database queries, output encoding, file names and redirects with the app's actual framework and data paths in mind. An error message should help the user recover without exposing credential values or internal details they do not need.

Test malformed input, an empty result and a failed upstream request. Verify that a missing response cannot masquerade as a valid zero or an approved decision.

Use the project's package manager and an appropriate dependency or source scan, then inspect the reported findings. Preserve the lockfile and the production build configuration so the reviewed dependencies are reproducible. A clean build verifies packaging, while a vulnerability report raises questions to assess; neither alone proves the app is secure.

Record any accepted exception with its responsible owner and next review point. Avoid copying a secret into an external analysis service as part of resolving a warning.

Check that team records survive a new release and are consistent across sessions. Browser storage and a local SQLite or upload file are not automatically a durable multi-user service. Review access to stored files and exports separately from the editor that created them, including whether a user can retrieve another user's material.

Test a save, a read and the intended retention or deletion behaviour using fictional records before introducing company information.

Identify workers, scheduled jobs, long-lived connections and large payloads in the project. Verify that the selected workload supports their execution model and resource needs. An HTTP request handler is not an indefinite process. Handle a timed-out or interrupted action so a user can tell what completed and what needs attention.

Read the placement receipt and the actual deployment result. Resolve an unsupported requirement instead of treating a reachable page as success for the entire application.

• Check runtime fit and the receipt →

Review how a membership change reaches SpringRoll and how the application's separate sessions and data permissions are handled. Where SCIM is configured, verify delivery and the resulting membership and agent-token state; do not assume a directory change has already reached every system. Re-test the affected identity after the control has been applied.

Check provider access and app-owned credentials separately. Removing a portal audience does not prove that a previously copied dataset or an external session has disappeared.

Keep the app owner, tested release, environment and authorization outcomes in the review record. Verify the audit events for governed changes and restrict access to sensitive operational evidence. SpringRoll's hash-chained audit record supports verification; retention and privileged operational procedures remain part of the system's administration.

Have the owner identify the current working version and the appropriate recovery action. A failed test should produce an understandable next step, rather than an instruction to share a private account.

Give the accountable owner the successful and failed checks, unresolved findings and exact release to assess. Use the configured reviewer when a staged release or another governed change needs a person's decision. Agent credentials cannot record that approval. Avoid expanding the audience while a known exposure remains unresolved.

Save the decision, support route and conditions for the next review. Re-run the relevant checks when the app changes data scope, audience, domain or runtime.