Threat · curated 27 Jun 2026

Protestware by open source maintainer to hinder agentic coding: The jqwik 1.10.0 Prompt Injection

Coverage timeline

2 Jun 2026snyk.io

Single-source incident — first reported, latest, and curated coincide.

Why it matters

It demonstrates that open source maintainers can weaponize dependencies with concealed prompt injections against AI coding agents, posing a real supply-chain risk to developers using LLM-based tooling.

The jqwik 1.10.0 release added a hidden prompt injection targeting AI coding agents, using terminal escape codes to conceal destructive instructions from humans while keeping them readable to logs and tools. This was introduced by the open source maintainer as protestware against agentic coding.