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What are Tempo Labs security best practices?

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Short Answer

The best practices for Tempo Labs apps track the attack vectors specific to Tempo Labs's stack: configure Row Level Security (RLS) policies, keep secrets off the client, verify authorization server-side, and re-scan after every release.

Detailed Answer

The best practices specific to Tempo Labs (not generic OWASP)

Every "security best practices" list tells you to use HTTPS and rotate keys. Those are table stakes. The list below is what actually matters for Tempo Labs apps, based on the risks that appear in real Tempo Labs deployments.

1. Close: Client-Side Data Exposure

Generated React components may store sensitive data in client state or local storage where it's accessible to attackers.

2. Close: Insecure API Integration

Visual-to-code generation may create API calls without proper authentication headers or error handling.

3. Close: Missing Input Validation

Generated form components often prioritize design over security, skipping validation and sanitization.

4. Close: Unprotected Data Fetching

Auto-generated useEffect hooks and data fetchers may expose backend APIs without rate limiting or auth.

Tempo Labs-specific: audit every table for RLS before every deploy

The failure mode in Tempo Labs + Supabase apps is always the same: a table gets added during a feature push, RLS never gets turned on, the full table becomes queryable via the anon key. Bake a pre-deploy check: `select tablename from pg_tables where schemaname = 'public' and not rowsecurity` — the result must be empty.

Verification

Even perfect best practices don't prove themselves — the only way to confirm the list above is implemented is to scan a deployed Tempo Labs app. VAS probes each of component audit, secrets scan, auth testing, input validation by actually attempting the attack, not just reading headers or docs.

Security Research & Statistics

10.3%

of Lovable applications (170 out of 1,645) had exposed user data in the CVE-2025-48757 incident

Source: CVE-2025-48757 security advisory

4.45 million USD

average cost of a data breach in 2023

Source: IBM Cost of a Data Breach Report 2023

500,000+

developers using vibe coding platforms like Lovable, Bolt, and Replit

Source: Combined platform statistics 2024-2025

Expert Perspectives

There's a new kind of coding I call 'vibe coding', where you fully give in to the vibes, embrace exponentials, and forget that the code even exists.

Andrej KarpathyFormer Tesla AI Director, OpenAI Co-founder

Vibe coding your way to a production codebase is clearly risky. Most of the work we do as software engineers involves evolving existing systems, where the quality and understandability of the underlying code is crucial.

Simon WillisonSecurity Researcher, Django Co-creator

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More Questions About This Topic

What's the single most important Tempo Labs security step?

Configure Row Level Security (RLS) policies before writing a single feature. In a Tempo Labs app, a table created without access controls is a fresh data leak the moment you hit deploy. Every other security best practice is lower priority.

Should I follow Tempo Labs's docs or a third-party best-practices list?

Both, for different things. Tempo Labs's docs tell you *how* to configure their specific features — that's authoritative. Third-party best practices (including this one) tell you *which* failure modes show up in real Tempo Labs deployments — that's where Tempo Labs's docs under-deliver, because Tempo Labs doesn't advertise what its own users misconfigure. Use docs for syntax, external guidance for priority.

How often should I re-audit Tempo Labs app security?

Before every production release, without exception. Tempo Labs's AI-assisted workflow means database schemas, API endpoints, and auth logic can change in a single chat session — any of which can introduce an issue from the list above. Weekly automated scans for live Tempo Labs apps are a reasonable baseline; post-feature scans are non-negotiable.