Prompt-injection defense

Prompt Injection in Repositories

How malicious or stale instructions in docs, issues, prompts, logs, comments, and fixtures can influence AI coding agents with repository access.

Published by CapitalGuard Security Research · Updated July 12, 2026

Repository text is not automatically trusted

Markdown, tickets, comments, test fixtures, logs, and copied prompts can contain instructions that conflict with the team's actual task and security boundaries.

Tool access raises impact

Prompt injection becomes more dangerous when an agent can run commands, upload files, call external services, change workflows, or access secrets.

Policy should name untrusted sources

CapitalGuard policies identify untrusted instruction locations and require human approval before operational actions are taken from repository text.

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