config-guard

A security guard that prevents the coding agent from changing its own configuration and guardrails.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to block unauthorized edits to agent settings, hooks, manifests, MCP configuration, and—at stricter levels—project instruction files.
Why use it?
It reduces the risk that an agent or command will weaken the rules that control its behavior, including hook settings, plugin files, and other protected configuration.

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 karanb192/claude-code-hooks
agentmods
npx agentmods add plugins/karanb192/claude-code-hooks/config-guard
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/karanb192/claude-code-hooks

Made for: Claude Code.

Per session not measured What this adds to a session before it is invoked.
When invoked not measured Not applicable: nothing here is loaded into a session.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Security

Grade A, and why

config-guard 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 2d 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/config-guard/.claude-plugin/plugin.json · 21 lines

What it actually says

{
  "name": "config-guard",
  "description": "Who guards the guards: a PreToolUse hook that blocks the agent from tampering with its own guardrail configuration. Deny-by-default protection for settings.json, hook scripts and hooks.json manifests, .mcp.json, plugin manifests, and (at strict level) CLAUDE.md and rules/agents/commands, across Bash, Edit, MultiEdit, and Write, including `claude config/mcp/plugin` CLI writes. Reads always pass; symlinked paths are resolved; creating a protected file counts as mutation (the CVE-2026-25725 vector). Escape hatch via CONFIG_GUARD_ALLOW=true, per-level ask mode via HOOK_ASK_*.",
  "version": "1.0.0",
  "author": {
    "name": "Karan Bansal",
    "url": "https://github.com/karanb192"
  },
  "homepage": "https://github.com/karanb192/claude-code-hooks",
  "license": "MIT",
  "keywords": [
    "claude-code",
    "hooks",
    "security",
    "guardrails",
    "config",
    "supply-chain",
    "pretooluse"
  ]
}
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. 2d ago First seen · 21 lines scan A b669f77e3bec

Subscribe to this mod's changes

config-guard is a plugin published in the GitHub repository karanb192/claude-code-hooks (494 stars, last pushed 9d 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.