guard

A command that checks a project against its required documentation and reports findings by severity. A quality gate is a set of checks that must be reviewed before work is accepted.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it before committing changes and after fixes to validate project documentation and related quality requirements.
Why use it?
It brings structure, security, testing, documentation and other problems into one report with specific suggested fixes.

Command

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.

agentmods
npx agentmods add commands/raccioly/docguard/guard
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/raccioly/docguard
Per session 12 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 666 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
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 $0.00012 $0.00666
Opus 5 $0.00006 $0.00333
Sonnet 5 $0.00002 $0.00133
Haiku 4.5 $0.00001 $0.00067

Measured 2d ago against content hash 1a8a3fc7c8e3, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

guard 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 2d 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.

extensions/spec-kit-docguard/commands/guard.md · 75 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 75 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

DocGuard Guard

Validate your project against its canonical documentation. Runs 160+ automated checks across validators.

User Input

$ARGUMENTS

You MUST consider the user input before proceeding (if not empty).

Execution

  1. Run DocGuard guard validation:
npx --yes docguard-cli@latest guard $ARGUMENTS
  1. Parse each validator's result and build a severity-ranked findings table. Status glyphs: ✅ pass, ⚠️ warning, ❌ fail, ➖ N/A (nothing to validate — NOT a pass; the dimension was not assessed).

  2. Triage by severity:

    • CRITICAL: Structure, Security, Test-Spec failures → fix immediately
    • HIGH: Doc Sections, Drift-Comments, Changelog, Traceability, API-Surface → fix before commit
    • MEDIUM: Freshness, Docs-Coverage, Doc-Quality, Metrics → fix this sprint
    • LOW: TODO-Tracking, Schema-Sync, Spec-Kit, Metadata → fix when convenient
  3. For each failing check, provide an exact fix — specific file, section, and content.

  4. Re-run guard after fixes. Iterate until all checks pass (max 3 iterations).

Validators

Validator What It Checks
Structure Required CDD files exist
Doc Sections Canonical docs have required sections
Docs-Sync External doc references are valid
Drift-Comments // DRIFT: comments have DRIFT-LOG entries
Changelog CHANGELOG.md is maintained
Test-Spec TEST-SPEC.md matches actual test files
Environment Environment docs and .env.example exist
Security No hardcoded secrets, .gitignore configured
Architecture Layer boundaries and diagrams present
Freshness Docs updated after recent code changes
Traceability Canonical docs linked to source code
Docs-Diff Entity/route/field drift between code and docs
API-Surface API-REFERENCE.md endpoints match the real API surface (OpenAPI spec / routes)
Metadata-Sync Metadata headers are consistent
Docs-Coverage All config files documented
Doc-Quality Readability, IEEE 830 compliance
TODO-Tracking TODOs are tracked
Schema-Sync Schema documentation matches code
Spec-Kit Spec quality (FR-IDs, sections)
Metrics-Consistency Internal counts are accurate

Read the full file on GitHub · 75 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. 2d ago First seen · 75 lines · 12 tokens per session scan A 1a8a3fc7c8e3

Subscribe to this mod's changes

guard is a command published in the GitHub repository raccioly/docguard (27 stars, last pushed 4d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 12 tokens to every session and 666 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 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.