ai-coding-guardrails

ai-coding-guardrails is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from OneWave-AI/claude-skills. It costs 86 tokens per session (794 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A checklist for keeping an AI coding agent within the requested scope and aligned with the existing codebase. It stresses small changes, real API checks, and running verification before saying work is complete.

In plain words
What is it for?
It helps review agent-written production code and refactors, limit scope, avoid invented APIs, and verify builds or tests.
Why use it?
Coding agents may over-engineer, invent unavailable functions, change unrelated code, or claim success without testing. These checks catch those common failures before the change is accepted.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Good fit It helps review agent-written production code and refactors, limit scope, avoid invented APIs, and verify builds or tests.

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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 OneWave-AI/claude-skills --skill ai-coding-guardrails
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/OneWave-AI/claude-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 86 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 794 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 $0.00086 $0.00794
Opus 5.5 $0.00034 $0.00318
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00017 $0.00159
Haiku 4.5 $0.00009 $0.00079

Measured 27d ago against content hash f4aa2e87f33b, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

ai-coding-guardrails 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 27d 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.

ai-coding-guardrails/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.

AI Coding Guardrails

Coding agents fail in a small number of predictable ways. This is the checklist that catches them before the diff lands.

The Rules

1. Match the codebase, not your preferences. Read two or three neighbouring files before writing. Use the project's existing patterns, naming, error handling, and comment density — even when you would have done it differently. A diff that reads like the rest of the repo is the goal. Introducing a new pattern is a decision the user makes, not a default.

2. Change the smallest thing that works. No speculative abstraction. No config option nobody asked for. No "while I was in here" rewrite. If a fix is three lines, the diff is three lines. Refactors ride separately from behavior changes so a reviewer can see one thing at a time.

3. Never invent an API. If you cannot see a function's signature in the repo, in installed source, or in the documentation, do not call it. Grep for it first. A plausible-looking method that does not exist is the single most common way agent code fails, and it fails at runtime, in front of the user.

4. Verify before claiming. "Done" means you ran something and saw it pass. Build, test, hit the endpoint, load the page. If you did not run it, say "untested". Reporting success you did not observe is worse than reporting nothing.

5. Never make a test pass by weakening it. Deleting an assertion, loosening a matcher, adding a skip, or special-casing the test input is fraud. If the test is genuinely wrong, say so in a sentence and let the user decide.

6. Do not swallow errors. No empty catch blocks, no except: pass, no returning a default to hide a failure. If an error path is intentionally ignored, one comment says why.

7. Read the error before changing anything. The stack trace usually names the file and the line. Changing code before reading the failure is guessing, and guessing costs more turns than reading.

8. Stay inside the ask. Fixing an unrelated bug you noticed is a new task, not a bonus. Mention it in a line; do not bundle it. Unrequested changes make a diff unreviewable and break things the user was not watching.

Read the full file on GitHub · 56 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. 27d ago First seen · 56 lines · 86 tokens per session scan A f4aa2e87f33b

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ai-coding-guardrails is a skill published in the GitHub repository OneWave-AI/claude-skills (349 stars, last pushed 15d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 86 tokens to every session and 794 once invoked, about $0.0003 per session on Opus 5.5. 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 2026-09-20.

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