agent-guard CLAUDE.md

agent-guard CLAUDE.md is an instructions file for coding agents from XuebinMa/agent-guard. It costs 3,414 tokens per session, scanned A, original, MIT.

Repository instructions for Claude Code, an AI coding assistant, covering the project structure and commands for building and testing a Rust-based execution-control project.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use them to understand the project, run the full verification script, check Rust code, or run tests for the whole workspace, one package, or one test.
Why use it?
They give the coding assistant a consistent way to verify changes locally and avoid a known Python-extension build issue.

Instructions file

Install

Getting it into your agent

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agentmods
npx agentmods add instructions/xuebinma/agent-guard/claude-md
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/XuebinMa/agent-guard

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Opus 5 $0.01707 $0.01707
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Security

Grade A, and why

agent-guard 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 yesterday.

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.

CLAUDE.md · 173 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 173 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.

Project Overview

agent-guard is an execution control layer for agent side effects. It sits between agent tool intent and real execution, evaluates calls against policy, applies validator and sandbox controls, and records auditable outcomes.

Today, the clearest proof point is structured recognition and policy decisions for recognized outbound Git push forms. The existing shell/file/HTTP surfaces remain supported, but new product work should not expand them horizontally. The target broker boundary is: an agent may write and test freely; agent-guard decides and executes which exact Git change may leave the machine. Plumbing-level git send-pack is part of that same outbound boundary, not a separate feature surface. Current source version: 0.2.0 (unpublished).

Build & Test Commands

# Canonical local verification entrypoint
./scripts/verify.sh full

# Rust-only verification path
./scripts/verify.sh rust
./scripts/verify.sh lint

# Build / test the Rust workspace without the PyO3 extension-module feature trap
cargo build --workspace --exclude agent-guard-python --all-features
cargo test --workspace --exclude agent-guard-python --all-features

# Test (single crate)
cargo test --package agent-guard-core

# Test (single test)
cargo test --package agent-guard-core --lib tests::test_policy_load

# Lint
cargo clippy --workspace --exclude agent-guard-python --all-features -- -D warnings

# Format check / fix
cargo fmt --all -- --check
cargo fmt --all

# Run an example
cargo run -p agent-guard-sdk --example quickstart

# Python binding (requires maturin; extension-module is opt-in)
cd crates/agent-guard-python && maturin develop --features extension-module

# Node binding
cd crates/agent-guard-node && npm run build

Workspace Architecture

Nine crates under crates/, layered bottom-up:

agent-guard-core          ← foundational types, YAML policy engine, audit, attestation
  ↑
agent-guard-validators    ← bash command + path validation (destructive detection, traversal checks)
agent-guard-sandbox       ← multi-platform sandbox trait (seccomp, Seatbelt, Windows Job/AppContainer, noop)
  ↑
agent-guard-sdk           ← main integration point: Guard struct, anomaly detection, metrics, provenance, SIEM
  ↑
agent-guard-python        ← PyO3 bindings (maturin, abi3-py310)
agent-guard-node          ← napi-rs bindings
guard-verify              ← CLI: execution-receipt verification + host-boundary doctor
agent-guard-cli           ← CLI: interactive approval workflow (bin: agent-guard)
guard-hook                ← Claude Code PreToolUse hook adapter (bin: guard-hook)

Read the full file on GitHub · 173 lines

Changes

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agent-guard CLAUDE.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository XuebinMa/agent-guard (5 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 3,414 tokens to every session, about $0.0171 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 2026-08-31.

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