git-guardrails-claude-code

git-guardrails-claude-code is a skill for Claude Code from karlarao/afk. It costs 62 tokens per session (588 once invoked), scanned B, a copy of git-guardrails-claude-code, MIT.

A setup guide for Claude Code hooks that stop selected dangerous Git commands before they run. The blocked commands include pushing changes, hard resets, forced cleanup, deleting branches, and restoring whole checkouts.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to install a blocking hook, configure its project or global scope, and prevent commands such as `git push`, `git reset --hard`, and `git clean -f`.
Why use it?
It adds a confirmation boundary around Git operations that can publish work or discard changes. The guardrails can apply to one project or to all Claude Code projects.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: $CLAUDE_PROJECT_DIR variable. Also seen: reads .claude/ paths; mentions Claude Code.

Good fit Use it to install a blocking hook, configure its project or global scope, and prevent commands such as git push, git reset --hard, and git clean -f.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/karlarao/afk/git-guardrails-claude-code
View source ↗ karlarao/afk
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.

Any agent
npx skills add karlarao/afk --skill git-guardrails-claude-code
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/karlarao/afk

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 62 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 588 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan B 1 finding. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
Origin 92% copy Near-identical to another mod 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 5.1 $0.00062 $0.00588
Opus 5 $0.00031 $0.00294
Sonnet 5 $0.00012 $0.00118
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00059

Measured 6d ago against content hash 03c4de7613c7, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade B, and why

git-guardrails-claude-code scanned grade B with 1 finding 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 6d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 1 executable file (scripts/block-dangerous-git.sh), listed below but not scanned — reading those needs a real analyzer, not pattern matching.

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.

Reads agent configuration directoriesmediumAgent snooping

.claude/, .codex/, .gemini/ hold keys, settings and other credentials a mod has no legitimate need for.

Ask the user: install for **this project only** (`.claude/settings.json`) or **all projects** (`~/.claude/settings.json`)?
Origin

This is a copy

92% identical to git-guardrails-claude-code — 2 lines differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.

skills/matt-cohort3/git-guardrails-claude-code/SKILL.md · 96 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 96 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Setup Git Guardrails

Sets up a PreToolUse hook that intercepts and blocks dangerous git commands before Claude executes them.

What Gets Blocked

  • git push (all variants including --force)
  • git reset --hard
  • git clean -f / git clean -fd
  • git branch -D
  • git checkout . / git restore .

When blocked, Claude sees a message telling it that it does not have authority to access these commands.

Steps

1. Ask scope

Ask the user: install for this project only (.claude/settings.json) or all projects (~/.claude/settings.json)?

2. Copy the hook script

The bundled script is at: scripts/block-dangerous-git.sh

Copy it to the target location based on scope:

  • Project: .claude/hooks/block-dangerous-git.sh
  • Global: ~/.claude/hooks/block-dangerous-git.sh

Make it executable with chmod +x.

3. Add hook to settings

Add to the appropriate settings file:

Project (.claude/settings.json):

{
  "hooks": {
    "PreToolUse": [
      {
        "matcher": "Bash",
        "hooks": [
          {
            "type": "command",
            "command": "\"$CLAUDE_PROJECT_DIR\"/.claude/hooks/block-dangerous-git.sh"
          }
        ]
      }
    ]
  }
}

Global (~/.claude/settings.json):

{
  "hooks": {
    "PreToolUse": [
      {
        "matcher": "Bash",
        "hooks": [
          {
            "type": "command",
            "command": "~/.claude/hooks/block-dangerous-git.sh"
          }
        ]
      }
    ]
  }
}

If the settings file already exists, merge the hook into existing hooks.PreToolUse array — don't overwrite other settings.

4. Ask about customization

Ask if user wants to add or remove any patterns from the blocked list. Edit the copied script accordingly.

5. Verify

Run a quick test:

echo '{"tool_input":{"command":"git push origin main"}}' | <path-to-script>

Should exit with code 2 and print a BLOCKED message to stderr.

Read the full file on GitHub · 96 lines

Files

What ships with it

1 file 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. 6d ago First seen · 96 lines · 62 tokens per session scan B 03c4de7613c7

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git-guardrails-claude-code is a skill published in the GitHub repository karlarao/afk (2 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 62 tokens to every session and 588 once invoked, about $0.0003 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it B with 1 finding (reads agent configuration directories). It is 92% identical to git-guardrails-claude-code, differing in 2 lines, and is treated as a copy.

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