A GitHub App that scans issues and comments for prompt-injection attempts — including payloads hidden where humans never look but AI agents always read.
AI agents increasingly read GitHub issues and comments straight from the API. The text they ingest isn't always the text a human sees — and that gap is exactly where prompt injection hides.
Specializes in payloads smuggled inside HTML comments
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) — dropped by GitHub's renderer, but ingested in full by any agent reading the raw body.
Every segment runs through a tiered scanner cascade backed by a bundled, ML-based prompt-injection classifier — no external API call at scan time.
Flags the issue with a possible-prompt-injection
label and one warning comment. It reports where and how risky — never the verbatim attack string.
This issue body looks empty to a reviewer. An agent reading it via the REST/GraphQL API sees every word.
Thanks for the report — looks good to me! 👍
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GitHub's Markdown renderer drops the comment, so it's invisible in the thread. promptblock splits the body into visible text and each hidden comment, then scans every segment independently — so a benign visible body can't mask a malicious hidden one.
Three steps, on every issues
and
issue_comment
event.
possible-prompt-injection
label and one warning comment — explicitly noting when the content was hidden. A walk through real issues — a hidden injection attempt that promptblock catches, and benign content that it correctly lets through.
promptblock is a hosted GitHub App. Add it to your account or org and it starts scanning new issues and comments right away — nothing to configure.
issues
and issue_comment
events. To stop it, deselect repositories or uninstall it from Settings → Applications → Installed GitHub Apps.
A multi-stage Docker image is included, with the ~22 MB ONNX model baked in — no download at runtime.
docker build -t promptblock .
docker run -p 3000:3000 \
-e APP_ID=... -e WEBHOOK_SECRET=... \
-e PRIVATE_KEY="$(cat private-key.pem)" \
promptblock
Full setup, local webhook testing via smee.io, and the GitHub App registration flow are in the project README.