agentguard: Instructions file for Claude Code

CLAUDE.md

agentguard CLAUDE.md is an instructions file for Claude Code from SumonMSelim/agentguard. It costs 4,774 tokens per session, scanned D, original, MIT.

Project instructions for agentguard, a tool that installs security rules for AI coding agents such as Claude Code, Kiro, Cursor, Codex, and Grok.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to install, preview, check, manage, or remove guardrails globally or in a project, with optional skill packs such as Go or AWS.
Why use it?
It places guardrails at the shell-command level, so safety rules are enforced when commands run rather than existing only as written instructions.

Instructions file for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: PostToolUse hook event. Also seen: reads .claude/ paths; mentions CLAUDE.md; names the NotebookEdit tool.

This is SumonMSelim/agentguard's own configuration. It tells Claude Code how to work on agentguard itself, so it is not a mod to install elsewhere. Copy it as a starting point and replace the rules that are about this project. Everything agentguard configures →

Reuse

Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to SumonMSelim/agentguard. Take a copy, put it at the same path in your own repository, and replace the rules that are about this project with yours.

Copy the file
curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/SumonMSelim/agentguard/main/CLAUDE.md
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/SumonMSelim/agentguard

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 4,774 This file is loaded in full into every session.
When invoked 4,774 The same file — it is already loaded in full.
Security scan D 3 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe. ✓ AI security review Sonnet 5 · 7 Sept 2026 📄 Read the review
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 $0.04774 $0.04774
Opus 5.5 $0.01910 $0.01910
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00955 $0.00955
Haiku 4.5 $0.00477 $0.00477

Measured 18d ago against content hash c376f14af403, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade D, and why

agentguard CLAUDE.md scanned grade D with 3 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 18d 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.

Downloads and executes remote codehighSupply chain

curl | sh runs whatever the server returns today, which is not necessarily what it returned when this was reviewed.

| `block-destructive-ops.sh` | `rm` on `/`, `~` or `$HOME`; recursive `rm` of `.`, `..`, `.git`, `*` or a system dir; `find / -delete`; recursive `chmod`/`chown` on root or home; `mkfs`/`dd`/raw disk writes; overwriting

Reads agent configuration directoriesmediumAgent snooping

.claude/, .codex/, .gemini/ hold keys, settings and other credentials a mod has no legitimate need for.

agentguard installs security guardrails for AI coding agents (Claude Code, Kiro, Cursor, Codex, Grok, Gemini CLI, GitHub Copilot CLI, Windsurf, Google Antigravity CLI). Enforces rules at shell hook level — not just instr

Makes network callslowCapability

Not a fault in itself. Listed so you know the mod talks to something, and to what.

| `block-destructive-ops.sh` | `rm` on `/`, `~` or `$HOME`; recursive `rm` of `.`, `..`, `.git`, `*` or a system dir; `find / -delete`; recursive `chmod`/`chown` on root or home; `mkfs`/`dd`/raw disk writes; overwriting
CLAUDE.md · 141 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 141 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

CLAUDE.md

Guidance for Claude Code (claude.ai/code) working in this repo.

What this repo is

agentguard installs security guardrails for AI coding agents (Claude Code, Kiro, Cursor, Codex, Grok, Gemini CLI, GitHub Copilot CLI, Windsurf, Google Antigravity CLI). Enforces rules at shell hook level — not just instructions. Install target: user home (~/.claude/, ~/.kiro/, ~/.codex/, ~/.grok/, ~/.gemini/, ~/.copilot/, ~/.codeium/windsurf/, ~/.gemini/config/) or project dir (.cursor/), not this repo.

Commands

Preferred: Use the agentguard command (installed by the wrapper or packages).

# Install / manage guardrails
agentguard claude                          # Claude Code (global)
agentguard kiro                            # Kiro (global)
agentguard codex                           # Codex (global, ~/.codex)
agentguard grok                            # Grok
agentguard gemini                          # Gemini CLI (global, ~/.gemini)
agentguard copilot                         # GitHub Copilot CLI (global, ~/.copilot)
agentguard windsurf                        # Windsurf Cascade (global, ~/.codeium/windsurf)
agentguard antigravity                     # Google Antigravity CLI (global, ~/.gemini/config + ~/.gemini/AGENTS.md)
agentguard cursor                          # Cursor (project-local, run from CWD)
agentguard cursor --user                   # Cursor user-level hooks (~/.cursor, all projects)
agentguard all                             # All agents
agentguard claude --dry-run                # Preview without writing
agentguard claude --skills go,aws          # With specific skill packs
agentguard cursor --skills go,aws          # Cursor full install + skills
agentguard claude --project --skills go    # Append skills to CWD only (no hooks)

# Uninstall / check
agentguard uninstall claude
agentguard uninstall claude --dry-run
agentguard check claude
agentguard check all

# Audit log (reads audit.log.1 + audit.log; default agent all, --tail 50)
agentguard log
agentguard log claude --blocked --since 2h --tail 20

# Doctor (install check + agent binary + activation hints + audit activity; default: tracked agents)
agentguard doctor
agentguard doctor codex

# Bootstrap (one time only, from a fresh clone — this installs the `agentguard` CLI wrapper)
#   ./install.sh claude     # after this, use `agentguard claude` etc. for everything

# Tests
bash tests/run_all.sh                        # All suites
bash tests/claude.sh                         # Hook logic + Claude install check
bash tests/claude.sh hooks                   # Hook logic only
bash tests/claude.sh install                 # Install check only
bash tests/check-sync.sh                     # Assert instruction files are in sync
bash tests/install.sh                        # Install / merge edge cases
bash tests/bypass.sh                         # Bypass regression suite

Read the full file on GitHub · 141 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. 18d ago Changed · +10 lines · +193 tokens per session c376f14af403
  2. 19d ago Changed · +30 lines · +3,092 tokens per session scan F → D 4b828f6a2cf3
  3. 1mo ago First seen · 101 lines · 1,489 tokens per session scan F 9ba6d3a5eef1

Subscribe to this mod's changes

agentguard CLAUDE.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository SumonMSelim/agentguard (54 stars, last pushed 14d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 4,774 tokens to every session, about $0.0191 per session on Opus 5.5. A static security scan graded it D with 3 findings (downloads and executes remote code, reads agent configuration directories, makes network calls). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.

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