guard

A verification check that runs in the main coding session while work is happening. It checks tests, sensitive files, adherence to working rules, and newly discovered traps, then warns or blocks when needed.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it before committing changes, to run tests, block sensitive-file problems, check required working practices, and flag unexpected risks during implementation.
Why use it?
It catches common operational mistakes before they become part of the work. It focuses on immediate checks rather than recording findings or judging whether the final result matches the user's intention.

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/jun0-ds/sonmat/guard
Any agent
npx skills add jun0-ds/sonmat --skill guard
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/jun0-ds/sonmat

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 48 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,189 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 $0.00048 $0.01189
Opus 5 $0.00024 $0.00594
Sonnet 5 $0.00010 $0.00238
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00119

Measured 2d ago against content hash fb6f1108da69, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

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.

skills/guard/SKILL.md · 92 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 92 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Guard — Main-Side Verification Checks

Automatic verification layer running in the main session (System 1). No agent spawn.

Guard covers verification checks that main can reliably do on itself: sensitive files, test execution, discipline conformance, and detection of novel traps during work. Guard is pure verify-and-flag — it detects, it warns, it blocks. It does not record, accumulate, or persist findings; those belong to scribe (post-work persistence). It also does not verify whether the artifact matches the user's intent; that check is structurally unreliable when done inside the agent that produced the artifact, and is delegated to witness.

Scope boundaries:

Check kind Owner Why
Test execution, sensitive file blocking, discipline conformance, novel-trap detection guard Real-time verification during work; synchronous check-and-block at decision points
Scope match (is this within what was asked?), content match (does it do what was asked?), framing-derived scope witness Intent-artifact comparison — requires protocol isolation from main's reasoning (see witness.md §Isolation stack for what "isolation" means on current Claude Code)
Recording novel traps, writing project rules to CLAUDE.md, journaling verdicts, bridge notes, progress tracking scribe Post-work persistence — what the session learned that should outlive it

Guard detects and flags. Scribe persists what was flagged. Witness checks intent-artifact match in isolation. Three different axes on the same work.


1. Pre-Commit Verification

Before any commit, check in order:

Test pass confirmation

  • If tests exist, run them before commit. Fail → block commit.
  • "No tests, so just commit" is not allowed.

Claims backed by execution

  • "It works" must be backed by actual output (logs, test results). Not by speculation.

Sensitive file blocking

  • .env, credentials.*, secrets.*, *.pem, *.key in staging → immediate block.
  • Also check .gitignore coverage.

Read the full file on GitHub · 92 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 · 92 lines · 48 tokens per session scan A fb6f1108da69

Subscribe to this mod's changes

guard is a skill published in the GitHub repository jun0-ds/sonmat (6 stars, last pushed 4d ago), licensed BSD-3-Clause. It adds 48 tokens to every session and 1,189 once invoked, about $0.0002 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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