slope

A set of automatic checks that run before or after selected coding-agent actions, such as reading, editing, or stopping work.

In plain words
What is it for?
It helps keep an agent focused on the right files and aware of project-specific risks during development.
Why use it?
It warns about known hazards, outdated workflows, codebase exploration, and edits outside the agreed task scope.

Settings file 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.

agentmods
npx agentmods add settings/srbryers/slope/settings
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/srbryers/slope

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

slope 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.

.claude/settings.json · 233 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 233 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

{
  "hooks": {
    "PreToolUse": [
      {
        "hooks": [
          {
            "type": "command",
            "command": "\"$CLAUDE_PROJECT_DIR\"/.claude/hooks/slope-guard.sh explore",
            "timeout": 10,
            "statusMessage": "SLOPE: Suggest checking codebase index before deep exploration"
          }
        ],
        "matcher": "Read|Glob|Grep|Edit|Write"
      },
      {
        "hooks": [
          {
            "type": "command",
            "command": "\"$CLAUDE_PROJECT_DIR\"/.claude/hooks/slope-guard.sh hazard",
            "timeout": 10,
            "statusMessage": "SLOPE: Warn about known issues in file areas being edited"
          },
          {
            "type": "command",
            "command": "\"$CLAUDE_PROJECT_DIR\"/.claude/hooks/slope-guard.sh scope-drift",
            "timeout": 10,
            "statusMessage": "SLOPE: Warn when editing files outside claimed ticket scope"
          },
          {
            "type": "command",
            "command": "\"$CLAUDE_PROJECT_DIR\"/.claude/hooks/slope-guard.sh stale-flows",
            "timeout": 10,
            "statusMessage": "SLOPE: Warn when editing files belonging to a stale flow definition"
          },
          {
            "type": "command",
            "command": "\"$CLAUDE_PROJECT_DIR\"/.claude/hooks/slope-guard.sh claim-required",
            "timeout": 10,
            "statusMessage": "SLOPE: Warn when editing code without an active sprint claim"
          }
        ],
        "matcher": "Edit|Write"
      },
      {
        "hooks": [
          {
            "type": "command",
            "command": "\"$CLAUDE_PROJECT_DIR\"/.claude/hooks/slope-guard.sh subagent-gate",
            "timeout": 10,
            "statusMessage": "SLOPE: Enforce model selection on Explore/Plan subagents"
          }
        ],
        "matcher": "Agent"
      },
      {
        "hooks": [
          {
            "type": "command",
            "command": "\"$CLAUDE_PROJECT_DIR\"/.claude/ho

Read the full file on GitHub · 233 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. 2d ago First seen · 233 lines scan A ccc4c16b2807

Subscribe to this mod's changes

slope is a settings file published in the GitHub repository srbryers/slope (6 stars, last pushed 2d 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 2026-08-31.