warden

Instructions for running Warden, a tool that analyzes code changes before they are committed. A commit is a saved set of changes in a version-control project.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to check uncommitted changes or selected files, run specific checks, apply suggested fixes, configure rules, and fail checks based on finding severity.
Why use it?
It helps find problems in changed files before they become part of the project history.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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 skills/getsentry/xcodebuildmcp/warden
Any agent
npx skills add getsentry/XcodeBuildMCP --skill warden
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/getsentry/XcodeBuildMCP

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 60 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 609 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 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 $0.00060 $0.00609
Opus 5 $0.00030 $0.00304
Sonnet 5 $0.00012 $0.00122
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00061

Measured 2d ago against content hash f521ff421145, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

warden 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.

.agents/skills/warden/SKILL.md · 77 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 77 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Run Warden to analyze code changes before committing.

References

Read the relevant reference when the task requires deeper detail:

Document Read When
${CLAUDE_SKILL_ROOT}/references/cli-reference.md Full option details, per-command flags, examples
${CLAUDE_SKILL_ROOT}/references/configuration.md Editing warden.toml, triggers, patterns, troubleshooting
${CLAUDE_SKILL_ROOT}/references/config-schema.md Exact field names, types, and defaults
${CLAUDE_SKILL_ROOT}/references/creating-skills.md Writing custom skills, remote skills, skill discovery

Running Warden

# Analyze uncommitted changes (uses warden.toml triggers)
warden

# Run a specific skill
warden --skill <skill-name>

# Analyze specific files
warden src/auth.ts src/database.ts

# Analyze changes from a git ref
warden main..HEAD
warden HEAD~3

# Auto-apply suggested fixes
warden --fix

# Fail on high-severity findings
warden --fail-on high

Set WARDEN_ANTHROPIC_API_KEY or log in via claude login before running.

Pre-Commit Workflow

After making code changes and before committing:

  1. Run warden to analyze uncommitted changes
  2. Review the findings
  3. Fix issues Warden reports (or use warden --fix to auto-apply)
  4. Commit the changes

Run Warden once to validate work. Do not loop re-running Warden on the same changes.

Reading Output

Severity levels:

  • high - Must fix before merge
  • medium - Worth reviewing
  • low - Minor improvement

Exit codes: 0 = no findings at or above fail threshold. 1 = findings at or above fail threshold.

Verbosity: -v shows real-time findings. -vv shows debug info (tokens, latency). -q shows errors and summary only.

Commands

Command Description
warden Run analysis (default)
warden init Initialize warden.toml and GitHub workflow
warden add [skill] Add skill trigger to warden.toml
warden sync [remote] Update cached remote skills
warden setup-app Create GitHub App via manifest flow

Read the full file on GitHub · 77 lines

Files

What ships with it

4 files beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

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 · 77 lines · 60 tokens per session scan A f521ff421145

Subscribe to this mod's changes

warden is a skill published in the GitHub repository getsentry/XcodeBuildMCP (6,316 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 60 tokens to every session and 609 once invoked, about $0.0003 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 2026-08-30.

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