python-ai-guardrails-template CLAUDE.md

python-ai-guardrails-template CLAUDE.md is an instructions file for coding agents from tortastudios/python-ai-guardrails-template. It costs 984 tokens per session, scanned A, original, MIT.

Project rules for a Python template with an automatic quality check that runs after Python files are changed. The check covers formatting, linting, types, documentation, and tests for important functions.

In plain words
What is it for?
Editing Python code, running or fixing the project checks, and following extra documentation and testing requirements for critical functions.
Why use it?
They make quality failures visible immediately and require them to be fixed before work continues or is marked complete.

Instructions file

Install

Getting it into your agent

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npx agentmods add instructions/tortastudios/python-ai-guardrails-template/claude-md
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/tortastudios/python-ai-guardrails-template

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Security

Grade A, and why

python-ai-guardrails-template CLAUDE.md 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 4d ago.

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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.

CLAUDE.md · 131 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 131 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Claude Code — Quality Contract

How the quality gate works

A PostToolUse hook in .claude/settings.json runs make check automatically every time you edit or create a .py file. You do not need to run it manually — the hook handles it.

If the hook fails, you must fix the issue before moving on. Do not proceed to the next task. Do not mark a task complete. Until the check passes, keep fixing.


Fixing failures

When make check fails:

  1. Read the full output — every line
  2. Run make fix FILE=<filepath> first (fixes formatting and safe ruff violations automatically)
  3. Wait for the hook to re-run on the next edit, or manually run make check FILE=<filepath>
  4. If still failing, fix the remaining issues manually
  5. Keep editing until the check passes

Never ask the user whether to fix quality issues. Just fix them.


Critical functions

Before editing any function, check CRITICALITY.md.

If the function is listed there:

  • Type annotations are mandatory — full input and return types
  • Docstring is mandatory — document contract, parameters, return value, and exceptions
  • Existing tests must still pass after your change
  • New behavior must have new tests

Raise extra scrutiny on high fan-in functions. Many callers means a subtle behavior change can break things in non-obvious ways.


Code style rules

  • Prefer early returns over nested conditionals
  • Extract helper functions rather than writing inline logic blocks
  • Keep functions under 30 lines of actual logic
  • Keep files under 300 SLOC — split at natural module boundaries
  • Name things for what they are, not what they do (nouns for data, verbs for actions)
  • No commented-out code — delete it, git has history

Type annotation rules

When a type annotation exceeds the complexity thresholds enforced by scripts/check_type_complexity.py (nesting depth > 2 or length > 40 chars), replace it with a named type using the following decision rules.

When to use each approach

Read the full file on GitHub · 131 lines

Changes

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  1. 4d ago First seen · 131 lines · 984 tokens per session scan A fdaddd8192bc

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python-ai-guardrails-template CLAUDE.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository tortastudios/python-ai-guardrails-template (11 stars, last pushed 5mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 984 tokens to every session, about $0.0049 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.