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Atheon is a pattern-matching engine for scanning codebases, environment variables, and arbitrary content against a community-maintained library of patterns.

Pages

• Getting Started — install, first scan, CLI reference
• Patterns — how patterns work, writing your own, the community library
• Configuration — .atheonignore, pattern enable/disable, output formats
• MCP Server — using Atheon as an MCP tool with AI assistants
• Performance — tuning for large repositories
• Contributing — adding patterns, writing tests, opening PRs

Quick start

# Install
go install github.com/HoraDomu/Atheon@latest

# Scan current directory
atheon .

# Scan a single file
atheon scan path/to/file.go

# List available pattern categories
atheon list categories

# JSON output
atheon . --format json

What it's for

Atheon is designed to be useful anywhere you need to match patterns across files at speed — secrets detection, AI context filtering, code quality gates, custom lint rules. The pattern library lives in community/ and is community-driven.