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Compliance Shield helps teams prevent secrets, insecure code, and sensitive files from entering Git repositories.

Compliance Shield integrates directly with GitHub pull requests and provides:

Teams can configure their own security policies using a simple YAML configuration file.

Compliance Shield is ideal for organizations that want lightweight, customizable security checks built directly into their development workflow.

Overview

Compliance Shield is a GitHub App that helps teams detect security and compliance issues in their repositories before code is merged.

The app automatically scans pull requests and repositories to identify sensitive data, insecure patterns, and policy violations that could introduce risk into your codebase.

Compliance Shield integrates directly into the GitHub development workflow and provides real-time feedback through pull request comments and GitHub Checks.

Key Capabilities

Pull Request Security Scanning

Compliance Shield automatically scans files modified in pull requests and reports violations directly in the PR conversation.

Developers receive actionable feedback before code is merged.

Secret Detection

The scanner detects common credential patterns such as:

• API keys • GitHub tokens • AWS access keys • private keys • JWT tokens

This helps prevent accidental credential leaks.

Compliance Policy Enforcement

Organizations can define custom security policies using a simple YAML configuration file inside the repository.

Example rules include:

• blocked file types • banned code patterns • secret detection rules • severity levels for violations

Repository Scanning

Compliance Shield can also perform full repository scans to detect historical security risks.

Repository scans can be triggered via pull request titles or slash commands.

Developer Commands

Developers can interact with the app using simple commands:

/compliance-shield help

/compliance-shield status

/compliance-shield history

/compliance-shield scan-repo

/compliance-shield rescan

These commands allow teams to quickly trigger scans or view compliance status.

Scan History Tracking

The application maintains scan metadata to provide visibility into recent compliance scans and violations.