PluginStatsCompliance Shield installs statistics
By Anupam Mukherjee · GitHub Marketplace
Automated security and compliance scanner for GitHub pull requests and repositories
Compliance Shield has 2 recorded installs on GitHub Marketplace.
It ranks #1246 of 1,393 tracked GitHub Marketplace listings by installs.
PluginStats has 1 daily observations since Oct 16, 2026; the latest is from Oct 16, 2026.
About Compliance Shield
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.
Description from the GitHub Marketplace listing.
- Security
- Code quality
Where Compliance Shield sits in the listing
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Charts
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Adoption over time
7/30/90-day growth
Filled points are observed values; hollow points come from Internet Archive snapshots of the listing page. Dashed segments span periods with no observations — values between points are not interpolated.
Recent observations
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Data source
Install counts (installations of each GitHub App across accounts and organizations) are read from public GitHub Marketplace listing pages. GitHub does not publish ratings. Category positions reflect GitHub's own popularity sort.
Listing: https://github.com/marketplace/compliance-shield. First seen Oct 16, 2026; last successful collection Oct 16, 2026. See the methodology.