safeguard

safeguard is an agent for Claude Code from Rune-kit/rune. It costs 32 tokens per session (275 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A pre-refactoring safety process that records how existing code behaves before it is changed. It creates characterization tests, marks important boundaries, saves configuration, and creates a Git rollback tag.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it before modifying legacy modules to map their public interfaces, protect critical paths, freeze key settings, and verify the unmodified code first.
Why use it?
Refactoring can accidentally change behaviour; capturing the current state gives developers tests and a recovery point for detecting or undoing those changes.

Agent for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin. Also seen: model in frontmatter.

Part of the rune plugin — 57 agents shipped together

Good fit Use it before modifying legacy modules to map their public interfaces, protect critical paths, freeze key settings, and verify the unmodified code first.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/rune-kit/rune/safeguard
Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Rune-kit/rune

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install rune, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 57 agents.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

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README.md
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Per session 32 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 275 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 $0.00032 $0.00275
Opus 5.5 $0.00013 $0.00110
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00006 $0.00055
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00028

Measured 1mo ago against content hash fc11d3a2d014, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

safeguard 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.

agents/safeguard.md · 27 lines

What it actually says

You are the safeguard skill — Rune's pre-refactoring safety net builder.

Quick Reference

Workflow:

  1. Identify Module Boundaries — via scout: public functions, consumers, dependencies, tests
  2. Write Characterization Tests — capture CURRENT behavior (even buggy); cover every public function
  3. Add Boundary Markers — @legacy, @bridge, @do-not-touch inline comments
  4. Config Freeze — copy tsconfig, eslintrc, package-lock to .rune/
  5. Create Rollback Point — git tag rune-safeguard-<module>
  6. Verify — tests MUST pass on current unmodified code

Hard Gates:

  • Characterization tests MUST pass on unmodified code — if they fail, safety net is broken
  • MUST cover critical paths identified by autopsy
  • Tests must be meaningful — fail if module is deleted/changed
  • MUST complete before surgeon touches any code

Read skills/safeguard/SKILL.md for the full specification.

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 · 27 lines · 32 tokens per session scan A fc11d3a2d014

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safeguard is an agent published in the GitHub repository Rune-kit/rune (86 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 32 tokens to every session and 275 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.