prompt-shield

n8n community node for Prompt Shield - scan text for prompt injection attacks and PII

Package Information

Released: 6 mo ago
Downloads: 8 weekly / 145 monthly
Latest Version: 0.2.0

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Prompt Shield
Scan text for prompt injection attacks and PII

Documentation

n8n-nodes-prompt-shield

This is an n8n community node package that integrates Prompt Shield into your n8n workflows. It allows you to scan text for prompt injection attacks and detect or redact personally identifiable information (PII).

Prerequisites

  • n8n installed and running
  • prompt-shield CLI installed (pip install prompt-shield)

Installation

Follow the n8n community node installation guide:

  1. Go to Settings > Community Nodes
  2. Select Install
  3. Enter n8n-nodes-prompt-shield
  4. Agree to the risks and select Install

Alternatively, install via npm in your n8n custom extensions directory:

npm install n8n-nodes-prompt-shield

Operations

Operation Description
Scan Scan text for prompt injection attacks
PII Scan Scan text for personally identifiable information
PII Redact Redact PII from text, replacing it with placeholders
Output Scan Scan LLM output for harmful content (toxicity, code injection, prompt leakage, PII)

Configuration

Credentials (Optional)

The Prompt Shield credentials allow you to configure the path to the prompt-shield CLI binary. This is only needed if the CLI is not available on the system PATH.

Field Description Default
CLI Binary Path Path to the prompt-shield CLI executable prompt-shield

Node Parameters

Parameter Type Description Default
Operation Options The operation to perform (Scan, PII Scan, PII Redact, Output Scan) Scan
Input Text String The text to analyze —
JSON Output Boolean Return structured JSON output true

Usage Examples

Scan for Prompt Injection

  1. Add the Prompt Shield node to your workflow
  2. Set Operation to Scan
  3. Enter the text to analyze in Input Text
  4. Execute the node to get injection detection results

Detect PII

  1. Add the Prompt Shield node to your workflow
  2. Set Operation to PII Scan
  3. Enter text containing potential PII in Input Text
  4. Execute to see detected PII entities

Redact PII

  1. Add the Prompt Shield node to your workflow
  2. Set Operation to PII Redact
  3. Enter text containing PII in Input Text
  4. Execute to get the redacted text output

Scan LLM Output

  1. Add the Prompt Shield node to your workflow
  2. Set Operation to Output Scan
  3. Enter the LLM-generated text in Input Text
  4. Execute to check for toxicity, code injection, prompt leakage, and PII

AI Tool Usage

This node has usableAsTool enabled, which means it can be used as a tool by n8n's AI Agent node. The AI agent can automatically invoke Prompt Shield to scan or redact text as part of a larger AI workflow.

Development

# Install dependencies
npm install

# Build
npm run build

# Lint
npm run lint

License

MIT

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