#8238: feat: Add Glitchward Shield plugin for prompt injection protection
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Security Enhancements and Guardrails
## Summary
- Add new extension integrating Glitchward Shield for LLM prompt injection detection
- Real-time scanning of incoming messages via `message_received` and `before_agent_start` hooks
- `/shield` command for status and `/shield test` for testing
- Configurable block/warning thresholds
## Features
- Scans all prompts before they reach the LLM
- Injects security warnings for risky prompts
- Logs blocked attempts and warnings
- Dashboard integration at glitchward.com/shield
## Test plan
- [x] Plugin loads correctly (`openclaw plugins list`)
- [x] `/shield` shows status
- [x] `/shield test` runs test scan against API
- [x] API returns correct detection results (100% risk for injection attempts)
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<h2>Greptile Overview</h2>
<h3>Greptile Summary</h3>
This PR adds a new bundled extension (`extensions/glitchward-shield`) that integrates with Glitchward Shield to scan prompts for injection attempts. The plugin registers a connection provider for onboarding, hooks into `message_received` and `before_agent_start` to scan incoming content, and adds a `/shield` command for status and a basic test scan.
Notable behavior: the current implementation primarily logs high-risk detections and prepends warnings to the agent prompt; it does not currently prevent a risky message from reaching the LLM. Also, the plugin’s `configSchema` is set to `emptyPluginConfigSchema()`, which likely prevents the JSON schema in `openclaw.plugin.json` (and user-configured thresholds) from being applied.
<h3>Confidence Score: 2/5</h3>
- This PR is mergeable but has behavior/config gaps that will surprise users relying on blocking and configurable thresholds.
- Core integration points (hooks/command/provider) look reasonable, but the plugin config schema is effectively empty so user-configured settings may not apply, and the implementation does not actually block prompts despite README/PR claims. These are likely to cause functional misunderstandings in production deployments.
- extensions/glitchward-shield/index.ts; extensions/glitchward-shield/openclaw.plugin.json; extensions/glitchward-shield/README.md
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