
PromptShield: The Prompt Injection Scanner That Audits Repos for Hidden Unicode in Agent Instructions
PromptShield is a prompt injection scanner that audits repositories for malicious instructions and hidden Unicode before AI agents ever consume them. It statically scans agent instruction files, detects zero-width character attacks and taint patterns, and maps findings to the OWASP Agentic Top 10 (2026) so teams can block supply-chain and prompt-injection risk in CI/CD. What Is PromptShield and Why Repo Scanning Matters PromptShield belongs to a fast-growing category of tools built to answer one uncomfortable question: can you trust the instructions your AI agent is about to read? As coding agents like Claude Code, Codex, and Cursor become the default way teams ship software, the files those agents read — READMEs, AGENTS.md files, MCP configurations, and skill definitions — have become a new attack surface. ...








