Semgrep Named a Strong Performer in Independent Evaluation of Agentic Development Security Tools

Company combines customizable security analysis with AI-powered triage to help teams keep pace with agent-driven development

SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Semgrep, a leading code security company, today announced it has been named a Strong Performer in The Forrester Wave™: Agentic Development Security Tools, Q4 2026, receiving the highest possible score of 5 out of 5 in criteria including AI application flaws, developer experience, secrets detection and AI triage.

As AI coding agents accelerate software development, security teams must identify vulnerabilities, understand their relevance to individual applications, and prioritize remediation without slowing engineering teams.

Semgrep combines rules-based analysis with AI reasoning to examine vulnerabilities in that context. Rules identify known vulnerability patterns, while model-based reasoning assesses flaws that depend on application behavior and developer intent. That approach also extends to weaknesses in AI applications, including prompt injection and sensitive information disclosure.

As security engineers investigate findings, their decisions build a more detailed understanding of the organization’s code and security requirements. Semgrep’s AI triage uses that context and memories of prior decisions to inform subsequent reviews, reducing the need for teams to revisit issues they have already assessed.

“Security teams need to be able to trust the decisions their tools make as coding agents take on more work,” said Isaac Evans, CEO and co-founder of Semgrep. “In order to scale, teams must be able to prevent vulnerabilities from being introduced at agent-generation time, and they need their tools to learn from the decisions they’ve already made. That’s how modern security teams can keep up with the accelerated speed of shipping software.”

Teams can customize detection as their applications evolve, applying their own security requirements within the workflows developers already use. Semgrep’s flexible, code-centric platform gives security engineers control over what they look for while helping developers address findings as part of building software.

To access a complimentary copy of The Forrester Wave™: Agentic Development Security Tools, Q4 2026, visit: http://semgrep.dev/resources/access-forrester-wave-agentic-development-security-tools.

About Semgrep

Semgrep provides code security tools for developers and application security teams. The company helps organizations identify and remediate vulnerabilities across proprietary code, open source dependencies and secrets while supporting the speed of modern software development. Companies including Snowflake, Figma, Lyft and Dropbox use Semgrep to protect their code. Semgrep is backed by Felicis Ventures, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Menlo Ventures, Redpoint Ventures and Sequoia Capital.

The Forrester Wave™: Agentic Development Security Tools, Q4 2026, Forrester Research, Inc., November 5, 2026.

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