tool-governance

tool-governance is a skill for Claude Code from mattmre/EVOKORE-MCP-PUBLIC. It costs 20 tokens per session (746 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A set of rules for controlling which tools an agent may use and under what conditions. It uses allowlists, records where tools come from, and reveals tool details gradually as needed.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to define approved shell, browser, and file operations, set runtime limits, and manage tool definitions in YAML files.
Why use it?
It reduces the risk of agents using unapproved tools, networks, or commands. It also gives teams a consistent way to review tool ownership, licensing, security, and removal plans.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: PreToolUse hook event.

Good fit Use it to define approved shell, browser, and file operations, set runtime limits, and manage tool definitions in YAML files.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/mattmre/evokore-mcp-public/tool-governance
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 mattmre/EVOKORE-MCP-PUBLIC --skill tool-governance
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/mattmre/EVOKORE-MCP-PUBLIC

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 20 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 746 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
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 5.1 $0.00020 $0.00746
Opus 5 $0.00010 $0.00373
Sonnet 5 $0.00004 $0.00149
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00075

Measured 8d ago against content hash 29a4049a7045, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

tool-governance 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 8d 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/ORCHESTRATION FRAMEWORK/tool-governance/SKILL.md · 56 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 56 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Tool Governance Skill

Overview

This skill imports Agent33's tool governance framework, providing a structured approach to managing tool access, approval, and runtime constraints. The framework is built on three core principles:

  1. Default-deny allowlisting -- Tools and network access are off unless explicitly approved via allowlist entries with scoped permissions.
  2. Provenance tracking -- Every tool must pass a provenance checklist covering ownership, licensing, security posture, and revocation plans.
  3. Progressive disclosure -- Tool schemas are loaded incrementally (L0 through L2+) so agents only consume the detail they need for the current task.

Reference Documents

File Purpose
TOOL_GOVERNANCE.md Allowlist policy, provenance checklist, governance checkpoints
TOOLS_AS_CODE.md Progressive disclosure levels, minimal schemas, registry workflow

Tool Definitions

Definition Governance Constraints
definitions/shell.yml Command allowlist/denylist, max timeout 120s, 1 MB output cap
definitions/browser.yml Domain allowlist, max timeout 60s
definitions/file_ops.yml Path allowlist, 1 MB output cap
definitions/reader.yml Domain allowlist, 5 MB response cap
definitions/search.yml Domain allowlist, configurable result count
definitions/web_fetch.yml Domain allowlist, 5 MB response cap, max timeout 120s

Progressive Disclosure Levels

Level What is loaded When to use
L0 Name + summary + owner Tool discovery and inventory
L1 Inputs/outputs summary Task planning and tool selection
L2 Full schema and constraints Execution-time validation

Integration with EVOKORE-MCP Security Layer

This governance framework complements EVOKORE-MCP's existing security mechanisms:

  • damage-control-rules.yaml -- EVOKORE's PreToolUse hook (scripts/damage-control.js) already enforces a deny-list of dangerous commands, zero-access paths for secrets, read-only paths, and no-delete paths. Agent33's shell.yml definition provides the inverse view: an explicit allowlist of permitted executables. Together, the two layers form a defense-in-depth posture where EVOKORE blocks known-dangerous patterns and Agent33-style governance only permits known-safe commands.

Read the full file on GitHub · 56 lines

Files

What ships with it

8 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. 8d ago First seen · 56 lines · 20 tokens per session scan A 29a4049a7045

Subscribe to this mod's changes

tool-governance is a skill published in the GitHub repository mattmre/EVOKORE-MCP-PUBLIC (3 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 20 tokens to every session and 746 once invoked, about $0.0001 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 2026-09-03.

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