Claude-Code-Guardrails CLAUDE.md

Claude-Code-Guardrails CLAUDE.md is an instructions file for coding agents from wangbooth/Claude-Code-Guardrails. It costs 1,171 tokens per session, scanned E, original, MIT.

Project instructions and protective scripts for Claude Code, an AI coding assistant working in a code repository. They protect selected branches, save checkpoints after edits, and combine those checkpoints into cleaner commits.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use them to define repository guidance in CLAUDE.md, block edits to branches such as main, create checkpoint commits after file changes, and squash those checkpoints into task commits.
Why use it?
They reduce the risk of accidentally changing protected branches or losing work while the assistant edits code.

Instructions file

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 instructions/wangbooth/claude-code-guardrails/claude-md
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/wangbooth/Claude-Code-Guardrails

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Per session 1,171 This file is loaded in full into every session.
When invoked 1,171 The same file — it is already loaded in full.
Security scan E 4 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 $0.01171 $0.01171
Opus 5 $0.00585 $0.00585
Sonnet 5 $0.00234 $0.00234
Haiku 4.5 $0.00117 $0.00117

Measured 4d ago against content hash 5d94198d8194, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade E, and why

Claude-Code-Guardrails CLAUDE.md scanned grade E with 4 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.

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.

Asks for rootmediumPrivilege escalation

A mod that escalates privileges can change anything on the machine, not only the project.

sudo apt-get install -y jq

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.

curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/wangbooth/claude-code-guardrails/main/install.sh | bash

Reads agent configuration directoriesmediumAgent snooping

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

# Global installation (~/.claude/settings.json)

Makes network callslowCapability

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

curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/wangbooth/claude-code-guardrails/main/install.sh | bash
CLAUDE.md · 133 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 133 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

CLAUDE.md

This file provides guidance to Claude Code (claude.ai/code) when working with code in this repository.

Overview

This repository implements Claude Code Guardrails - a set of protective hooks that prevent accidental code loss and provide safe development workflows when using Claude Code. The system provides branch protection, automatic checkpointing, and safe commit squashing through Claude Code hooks.

Architecture

The guardrails system consists of three main components that integrate with Claude Code's hook system:

Hook Scripts (claude/hooks/)

  • guard-branch.sh - Prevents writes to protected branches (main/master/dev/release*) by exiting with code 2, blocking tool execution and suggesting feature branch creation
  • auto-commit.sh - Creates precise checkpoint commits after each Write/Edit/MultiEdit operation, staging only the modified file(s)
  • squash-checkpoints.sh - Consolidates multiple checkpoint commits into clean task commits during Stop/PreCompact events

Hook Configuration (claude/settings.json)

Defines the hook integration points:

  • PreToolUse: Branch protection before Write/Edit/MultiEdit operations
  • PostToolUse: Automatic checkpoint creation after Write/Edit/MultiEdit operations
  • Stop/PreCompact: Commit squashing when conversations end or are compacted

Installation System

  • install.sh - Merges guardrails hooks into existing .claude/settings.json with backup, deduplication, and idempotent operation
  • uninstall.sh - Safely removes guardrails hooks while preserving other user hooks

Key Development Commands

Installation

# Project-level installation (current directory)
curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/wangbooth/claude-code-guardrails/main/install.sh | bash

# Global installation (~/.claude/settings.json)
curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/wangbooth/claude-code-guardrails/main/install.sh | bash -s -- --global

# Manual installation (copy .claude/ directory)
cp -r .claude/ /path/to/your-project/
chmod +x /path/to/your-project/.claude/hooks/*.sh

Read the full file on GitHub · 133 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. 4d ago First seen · 133 lines · 1,171 tokens per session scan E 5d94198d8194

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Claude-Code-Guardrails CLAUDE.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository wangbooth/Claude-Code-Guardrails (54 stars, last pushed 11mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 1,171 tokens to every session, about $0.0059 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it E with 4 findings (asks for root, downloads and executes remote code, reads agent configuration directories). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.

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