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title: "block-invisible-unicode"
description: "Pre-commit gate for the mechanizable slice of prompt-injection defense: invisible and direction-override Unicode in staged changes. Bidi controls make code read differently than it parses (Trojan Source, CVE-2021-42574);"
canonical: https://agentpluginsdirectory.com/plugins/block-invisible-unicode--open-coder-ai-org
last-updated: 2026-09-08
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# block-invisible-unicode
Pre-commit gate for the mechanizable slice of prompt-injection defense: invisible and direction-override Unicode in staged changes. Bidi controls make code read differently than it parses (Trojan Source, CVE-2021-42574); Unicode tag-block characters smuggle instructions that are invisible to a human reviewer but fully legible to the agent reading the file. Zero-width joiners and bidi marks (ZWJ/ZWNJ/LRM/RLM) are deliberately NOT matched -- they are legitimate in emoji sequences and in Persian, Arabic and Indic text -- so ordinary internationalised content passes; only the override/embed/isolate controls and the tag block, which have no honest use in a source tree, are blocked. Escape: 'pragma: allowlist invisible-unicode' on the same line.
- Slug: block-invisible-unicode--open-coder-ai-org
- Publisher: chock-core
- Repository: https://github.com/open-coder-ai-org/chock
- Manifest: .agents/policies/block-invisible-unicode/plugin.json
- Version: 0.0.1
- License: Apache-2.0
- Category (editorial): other
- Skills: 1 (block-invisible-unicode)
- MCP servers: 0
- Stars: 3
- Listing: https://agentpluginsdirectory.com/plugins/block-invisible-unicode--open-coder-ai-org
- Schema: https://agent-plugins.org/schemas/1.0.0/plugin.schema.json