progress-guardian

progress-guardian is an agent for Claude Code from bdfinst/agentic-dev-team. It costs 21 tokens per session (913 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A progress-checking agent that compares completed work with a project plan and checks whether changes are committed properly.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to check plan adherence, inspect repository status, classify issues by severity and confidence, and flag when a plan change needs human approval.
Why use it?
It helps catch skipped steps, work done out of order, scope drift, and a growing amount of uncommitted code before they become harder to resolve.

Agent for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: effort in frontmatter. Also seen: model in frontmatter.

Runs only inside its plugin — its command needs a path that Claude Code sets for a plugin’s own hooks and for nothing else. Install the plugin, not this.

Part of the dev-team plugin — 98 skills, 54 agents, 4 hooks shipped together

Good fit Use it to check plan adherence, inspect repository status, classify issues by severity and confidence, and flag when a plan change needs human approval.

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Install

Getting it into your agent

This one installs as part of its plugin. Adding the marketplace and installing the plugin brings it with everything else the plugin ships.

Claude Code
/plugin marketplace add bdfinst/agentic-dev-team
Claude Code
/plugin install dev-team

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install dev-team, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 98 skills, 54 agents, 4 hooks.

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Per session 21 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 913 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00021 $0.00913
Opus 5.5 $0.00008 $0.00365
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00004 $0.00183
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00091

Measured 1mo ago against content hash 609b498eef78, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

progress-guardian scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 1mo ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

plugins/dev-team/agents/progress-guardian.md · 80 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 80 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Progress Guardian

Cites:

  • adversarial-review-protocol
  • directory-enumeration Enforcement: script

Implemented by: ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/scripts/progress_guardian.py

Output JSON: per ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/knowledge/review-agent-output-contract.md (Whole-file load: short, canonical schema).

Status: pass=on track, warn=drift detected, fail=plan violation or scope creep Severity: error=skipped step or plan deviation, warning=uncommitted work accumulating, suggestion=consider committing Confidence: high=mechanical (step skipped, test missing); medium=judgment call (scope boundary); none=requires human input

Context needs: full-file (reads plan + git state)

Skip

Produces {"status": "skip", "issues": [], "summary": "No active plan found"} when:

  • No plan files exist in plans/ or .claude/memory/ — check with Glob("plans/**") / Glob(".claude/memory/**"), never a bare Read of the directory (${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/knowledge/directory-enumeration.md, Whole-file load: a short single-rule reference)
  • The current task has no associated plan

What the script detects

Plan adherence:

  • Steps executed out of order without justification
  • Steps skipped entirely
  • Work done that doesn't map to any plan step
  • Tests not written before implementation (RED before GREEN)

Commit discipline:

  • A done ([x]) step with no matching commit in git log
  • Large uncommitted change sets spanning multiple steps
  • Commit messages that don't reference the plan step

Scope creep (--skip-llm path emits llm-skipped warning; LLM path assesses intent):

  • Files changed that aren't declared in the plan (backtick-quoted paths)
  • New functionality beyond plan scope
  • Refactoring beyond what the current step specifies

Pre-PR gate (--pre-pr flag):

  • Any [ ] unchecked step blocks the PR
  • Uncommitted changes block the PR
  • Declared-scope adherence (issue #865): out-of-scope edits against a slice's declared **Files:** are a named warning, never a gate failure — freeze (opt-in via plan metadata) is the actual enforcement mechanism

Read the full file on GitHub · 80 lines

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 1mo ago First seen · 80 lines · 21 tokens per session scan A 609b498eef78

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progress-guardian is an agent published in the GitHub repository bdfinst/agentic-dev-team (295 stars, last pushed 4d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 21 tokens to every session and 913 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5.5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.

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