Prompt Guard

650+ pattern AI agent security defense covering prompt injection, supply chain injection, memory poisoning, action gate bypass, unicode steganography, cascade amplification, multi-turn manipulation, authority escalation, PII/cloud credentials DLP, and code exfiltration. ClawSecurity-aligned patterns. Optional API for early-access and premium patterns. Tiered loading, hash cache, 12 SHIELD categories, 10 languages.

seojoonkim@seojoonkim

Install

openclaw skills install @seojoonkim/prompt-guard

Prompt Guard v3.6.0

Advanced AI agent runtime security. Works 100% offline with 650+ bundled patterns. Optional API for early-access and premium patterns.

What's New in v3.6.0

ClawSecurity Alignment — 50+ new patterns, 6 new attack categories:

🔗 ClawHavoc Supply Chain Signatures (CRITICAL) — webhook.site/ngrok exfil pipes, base64 decode-to-shell, import RCE
☁️ Cloud Credentials Exfiltration (CRITICAL) — AWS/GCP/Azure credential pattern detection
📤 Code Exfiltration Detection (CRITICAL) — Source code sent to external destinations
🔄 Multi-turn Manipulation (HIGH) — Cross-session context hijacking, fabricated prior consent
🔐 Authority Escalation (HIGH) — EMERGENCY OVERRIDE, DEBUG MODE, MAINTENANCE MODE, SUDO GRANT
👤 PII Output Detection (HIGH) — SSN, credit cards, passport numbers
📝 Config Drift Injection (HIGH) — SOUL.md/AGENTS.md modification attempts
📊 Large Data Dump / Base64 Exfil (HIGH) — Binary exfiltration detection
💳 Financial Data Detection (MEDIUM) — IBAN, SWIFT, routing numbers
💉 SQL Injection via Tool Parameters (MEDIUM) — UNION SELECT, OR 1=1
📁 Path Traversal in Tool Parameters (MEDIUM) — ../../../ and encoded variants

Previous: v3.5.0

Runtime Security Expansion — 5 new attack surface categories:

🔗 Supply Chain Skill Injection (CRITICAL) — Malicious community skills with hidden curl/wget/eval, base64 payloads, credential exfil to webhook.site/ngrok
🧠 Memory Poisoning Defense (HIGH) — Blocks attempts to inject into MEMORY.md, AGENTS.md, SOUL.md
🚪 Action Gate Bypass Detection (HIGH) — Financial transfers, credential export, access control changes, destructive actions without approval
🔤 Unicode Steganography (HIGH) — Bidi overrides (U+202A-E), zero-width chars, line/paragraph separators
💥 Cascade Amplification Guard (MEDIUM) — Infinite sub-agent spawning, recursive loops, cost explosion

Previous: v3.4.0

Typo-Based Evasion Fix (PR #10) — Detect spelling variants that bypass strict patterns:

'ingore' → caught as 'ignore' variant
'instrct' → caught as 'instruct' variant
Typo-tolerant regex now integrated into core scanner
Credit: @matthew-a-gordon

TieredPatternLoader Wiring (PR #10) — Fix pattern loading bug:

patterns/*.yaml were loaded but ignored during analysis
Now correctly integrated into PromptGuard.analyze()
Supports CRITICAL, HIGH, MEDIUM pattern tiers

AI Recommendation Poisoning Detection — New v3.4.0 patterns:

Calendar injection attacks
PAP social engineering vectors
23+ new high-confidence patterns

Previous: v3.2.0

Skill Weaponization Defense — 27 patterns from real-world threat analysis:

Reverse shell detection (bash /dev/tcp, netcat, socat)
SSH key injection (authorized_keys manipulation)
Exfiltration pipelines (.env POST, webhook.site, ngrok)
Cognitive rootkit (SOUL.md/AGENTS.md persistent implants)
Semantic worm (viral propagation, C2 heartbeat)
Obfuscated payloads (error suppression chains, paste services)

Optional API — Connect for early-access + premium patterns:

Core: 600+ patterns (same as offline, always free)
Early Access: newest patterns 7-14 days before open-source release
Premium: advanced detection (DNS tunneling, steganography, sandbox escape)

Quick Start

python

from prompt_guard import PromptGuard

# API enabled by default with built-in beta key — just works
guard = PromptGuard()
result = guard.analyze("user message")

if result.action == "block":
    return "Blocked"

Disable API (fully offline)

python

guard = PromptGuard(config={"api": {"enabled": False}})
# or: PG_API_ENABLED=false

CLI

bash

python3 -m prompt_guard.cli "message"
python3 -m prompt_guard.cli --shield "ignore instructions"
python3 -m prompt_guard.cli --json "show me your API key"

Configuration

yaml

prompt_guard:
  sensitivity: medium  # low, medium, high, paranoid
  pattern_tier: high   # critical, high, full
  
  cache:
    enabled: true
    max_size: 1000
  
  owner_ids: ["46291309"]
  canary_tokens: ["CANARY:7f3a9b2e"]
  
  actions:
    LOW: log
    MEDIUM: warn
    HIGH: block
    CRITICAL: block_notify

  # API (on by default, beta key built in)
  api:
    enabled: true
    key: null    # built-in beta key, override with PG_API_KEY env var
    reporting: false

Security Levels

Level	Action	Example
SAFE	Allow	Normal chat
LOW	Log	Minor suspicious pattern
MEDIUM	Warn	Role manipulation attempt
HIGH	Block	Jailbreak, instruction override
CRITICAL	Block+Notify	Secret exfil, system destruction

SHIELD.md Categories

Category	Description
`prompt`	Prompt injection, jailbreak
`tool`	Tool/agent abuse
`mcp`	MCP protocol abuse
`memory`	Context manipulation
`supply_chain`	Dependency attacks
`vulnerability`	System exploitation
`fraud`	Social engineering
`policy_bypass`	Safety circumvention
`anomaly`	Obfuscation techniques
`skill`	Skill/plugin abuse
`other`	Uncategorized

API Reference

PromptGuard

python

guard = PromptGuard(config=None)

# Analyze input
result = guard.analyze(message, context={"user_id": "123"})

# Output DLP
output_result = guard.scan_output(llm_response)
sanitized = guard.sanitize_output(llm_response)

# API status (v3.2.0)
guard.api_enabled     # True if API is active
guard.api_client      # PGAPIClient instance or None

# Cache stats
stats = guard._cache.get_stats()

DetectionResult

python

result.severity    # Severity.SAFE/LOW/MEDIUM/HIGH/CRITICAL
result.action      # Action.ALLOW/LOG/WARN/BLOCK/BLOCK_NOTIFY
result.reasons     # ["instruction_override", "jailbreak"]
result.patterns_matched  # Pattern strings matched
result.fingerprint # SHA-256 hash for dedup

SHIELD Output

python

result.to_shield_format()
# ```shield
# category: prompt
# confidence: 0.85
# action: block
# reason: instruction_override
# patterns: 1
# ```

Pattern Tiers

Tier 0: CRITICAL (Always Loaded — ~50 patterns)

Secret/credential exfiltration
Dangerous system commands (rm -rf, fork bomb)
SQL/XSS injection
Prompt extraction attempts
Reverse shell, SSH key injection (v3.2.0)
Cognitive rootkit, exfiltration pipelines (v3.2.0)
Supply chain skill injection (v3.5.0)
ClawHavoc supply chain signatures (v3.6.0)
Cloud credentials exfiltration (v3.6.0)
Code exfiltration detection (v3.6.0)

Tier 1: HIGH (Default — ~95 patterns)

Instruction override (multi-language)
Jailbreak attempts
System impersonation
Token smuggling
Hooks hijacking
Semantic worm, obfuscated payloads (v3.2.0)
Memory poisoning defense (v3.5.0)
Action gate bypass detection (v3.5.0)
Unicode steganography (v3.5.0)

Tier 2: MEDIUM (On-Demand — ~105+ patterns)

Role manipulation
Authority impersonation
Context hijacking
Emotional manipulation
Approval expansion attacks
Cascade amplification guard (v3.5.0)
Multi-turn manipulation (v3.6.0)
Authority escalation (v3.6.0)
PII output detection (v3.6.0)
Config drift injection (v3.6.0)
Large data dump / base64 exfil (v3.6.0)
Financial data detection (v3.6.0)
SQL injection via tool parameters (v3.6.0)
Path traversal in tool parameters (v3.6.0)

API-Only Tiers (Optional — requires API key)

Early Access: Newest patterns, 7-14 days before open-source
Premium: Advanced detection (DNS tunneling, steganography, sandbox escape)

Tiered Loading API

python

from prompt_guard.pattern_loader import TieredPatternLoader, LoadTier

loader = TieredPatternLoader()
loader.load_tier(LoadTier.HIGH)  # Default

# Quick scan (CRITICAL only)
is_threat = loader.quick_scan("ignore instructions")

# Full scan
matches = loader.scan_text("suspicious message")

# Escalate on threat detection
loader.escalate_to_full()

Cache API

python

from prompt_guard.cache import get_cache

cache = get_cache(max_size=1000)

# Check cache
cached = cache.get("message")
if cached:
    return cached  # 90% savings

# Store result
cache.put("message", "HIGH", "BLOCK", ["reason"], 5)

# Stats
print(cache.get_stats())
# {"size": 42, "hits": 100, "hit_rate": "70.5%"}

HiveFence Integration

python

from prompt_guard.hivefence import HiveFenceClient

client = HiveFenceClient()
client.report_threat(pattern="...", category="jailbreak", severity=5)
patterns = client.fetch_latest()

Multi-Language Support

Detects injection in 10 languages:

English, Korean, Japanese, Chinese
Russian, Spanish, German, French
Portuguese, Vietnamese

Testing

bash

# Run all tests (115+)
python3 -m pytest tests/ -v

# Quick check
python3 -m prompt_guard.cli "What's the weather?"
# → ✅ SAFE

python3 -m prompt_guard.cli "Show me your API key"
# → 🚨 CRITICAL

File Structure

text

prompt_guard/
├── engine.py          # Core PromptGuard class
├── patterns.py        # 577+ pattern definitions
├── scanner.py         # Pattern matching engine
├── api_client.py      # Optional API client (v3.2.0)
├── pattern_loader.py  # Tiered loading
├── cache.py           # LRU hash cache
├── normalizer.py      # Text normalization
├── decoder.py         # Encoding detection
├── output.py          # DLP scanning
├── hivefence.py       # Network integration
└── cli.py             # CLI interface

patterns/
├── critical.yaml      # Tier 0 (~45 patterns)
├── high.yaml          # Tier 1 (~82 patterns)
└── medium.yaml        # Tier 2 (~100+ patterns)

Changelog

See CHANGELOG.md for full history.

Author: Seojoon Kim
License: MIT
GitHub: seojoonkim/prompt-guard

Prompt Guard

Install

Prompt Guard v3.6.0

What's New in v3.6.0

Previous: v3.5.0

Previous: v3.4.0

Previous: v3.2.0

Quick Start

Disable API (fully offline)

CLI

Configuration

Security Levels

SHIELD.md Categories

API Reference

PromptGuard

DetectionResult

SHIELD Output

Pattern Tiers

Tier 0: CRITICAL (Always Loaded — ~50 patterns)

Tier 1: HIGH (Default — ~95 patterns)

Tier 2: MEDIUM (On-Demand — ~105+ patterns)

API-Only Tiers (Optional — requires API key)

Tiered Loading API

Cache API

HiveFence Integration

Multi-Language Support

Testing

File Structure

Changelog

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