tale-mode-governor

tale-mode-governor is a plugin for Claude Code from alicicek/tale-mode. Its token cost is not measured, scanned A, original, MIT.

An optional read-only companion for tale-mode that reviews an autonomous coding loop when it appears stuck.

In plain words
What is it for?
It runs a turn-end check, escalates after two failed attempts, prevents recursive checks, and provides advisory feedback for Claude Code or Codex.
Why use it?
It detects repeated failures and requests one restricted review to challenge the current direction without blocking the agent.

Plugin for Claude Code

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.

Claude Code
/plugin marketplace add alicicek/tale-mode
agentmods
npx agentmods add plugins/alicicek/tale-mode/tale-mode-governor
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/alicicek/tale-mode

Made for: Claude Code.

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Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Security

Grade A, and why

tale-mode-governor 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 5d 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.

plugins/tale-mode-governor/.claude-plugin/plugin.json · 18 lines

What it actually says

{
  "$schema": "https://json.schemastore.org/claude-code-plugin-manifest.json",
  "name": "tale-mode-governor",
  "displayName": "Tale Mode — Governor",
  "version": "2.0.0",
  "description": "Optional companion to the tale-mode plugin: a read-only \"governor\" that breaks anchoring when the autonomous goal loop gets stuck. v2 is a single command hook on both hosts — a free bash gate at every turn-end, escalating to ONE read-only model call exactly when a goal first fails twice (Claude Code: `claude -p` restricted to Read/Grep/Glob; Codex: OS-sandboxed `codex exec -s read-only`). Sentinel-guarded against recursion; advisory-only (never blocks). Zero idle cost — a model is called only when a loop is genuinely stuck.",
  "author": {
    "name": "Ali Cicek",
    "url": "https://github.com/alicicek"
  },
  "homepage": "https://github.com/alicicek/tale-mode",
  "repository": "https://github.com/alicicek/tale-mode",
  "license": "MIT",
  "keywords": ["workflow", "stop-hook", "adversarial-review", "governor"],
  "defaultEnabled": true,
  "dependencies": ["tale-mode"]
}
Contents

What it installs

The manifest is a name and a version. 1 hook travel with it, and installing the plugin installs all of them. Each is measured on its own page, and each can be installed alone.

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. 5d ago First seen · 18 lines scan A d2e91f97f85b

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tale-mode-governor is a plugin published in the GitHub repository alicicek/tale-mode (36 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. Its token cost is not measured: this kind of file is read by the harness, not the model. 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.

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