Embed Giscus comments on my site
Giscus puts a comment thread under a page. The comments live in a GitHub discussion you own, so you keep them and you moderate them. There is nothing extra to pay for.
The prompt
“Tell me when Giscus comments is available on my site, and what I need to set up first.”
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Ask your AI
Tell me when Giscus comments is available on my site, and what I need to set up first.
What you need first
A public GitHub repository with Discussions turned on, and the four ids the giscus.app configurator gives you.
What bernard checks
Giscus comments is on bernard’s permitted list. Someone read the maker’s own instructions (https://giscus.app) on 2026-09-14 and decided it was safe to run on a customer’s site: data-theme also accepts a CSS URL that applies inside the Giscus iframe, so the pattern is narrowed to the built-in theme names only. Loads a third-party iframe, so the row is consent functional. Your site loads it from the maker’s own address, at a version bernard pins and only ever moves forward.
Your AI writes the exact tag bernard permits, on a private preview. You look at it and approve it before anything goes live.
People search for this as: comments, discussion, giscus, blog comments, feedback.
Waiting on consent support
Giscus comments sets cookies or sends information about your visitors to another company, so on a site with a cookie banner it has to wait for each visitor to say yes. bernard’s consent system does not yet have the category it needs, so the library is checked and on the list but waiting on consent support rather than switched on. Ask your AI to tell you when it is ready, and it will.
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Questions people ask
- Do I need to write any code to use Giscus comments?
- No. Your AI writes the exact tag bernard permits and puts it on a preview. You approve it before it goes live, and pasted code is removed for safety every time.
- Is Giscus comments safe on my site?
- bernard admits it only from its own published address, with its settings written as plain data rather than code, at a version bernard pins and only ever moves forward. It stays off until bernard’s cookie-consent system can hold it.
- What do I need from Giscus comments first?
- A public GitHub repository with Discussions turned on, and the four ids the giscus.app configurator gives you.
- Can I change it later?
- Yes. Say what you want different and your AI redoes it on a preview for you to approve. Nothing about it is baked in.