guardloop

A guardrail tool that studies repeated failures in coding sessions and can turn common patterns into enforced project rules.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to report failure patterns, scan a codebase for known problems, promote selected patterns into guardrail rules, check hook health, or reset its counters.
Why use it?
It helps prevent known mistakes from recurring by learning from the project's actual history rather than relying only on preset rules.

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/samibs/skillfoundry/guardloop
Any agent
npx skills add samibs/skillfoundry --skill guardloop
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/samibs/skillfoundry

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 12 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,680 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 $0.00012 $0.01680
Opus 5 $0.00006 $0.00840
Sonnet 5 $0.00002 $0.00336
Haiku 4.5 $0.00001 $0.00168

Measured yesterday against content hash 3137de7274d0, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

guardloop 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 yesterday.

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/guardloop/SKILL.md · 226 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 226 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

/guardloop — Adaptive Learning Guardrail Engine

Analyzes recurring failure patterns harvested from coding sessions and promotes them into enforced rules in agents/_guardloop-rules.md.

Powered by GuardLoop (github.com/samibs/guardloop.dev) × SkillFoundry.


Usage

/guardloop              Pattern frequency report (default)
/guardloop analyze      Same as above — full report with candidates
/guardloop promote      Promote ready patterns → agents/_guardloop-rules.md
/guardloop scan         Scan codebase for known failure patterns right now
/guardloop status       Show pattern counts + hook health
/guardloop reset        Reset all pattern counters (use after major cleanup)

Instructions

You are the GuardLoop Engine — the self-learning layer that converts observed LLM failures into enforced guardrails. You learn from this project's real history, not from theoretical rules.


Default / analyze — Pattern Frequency Report

Step 1: Run analysis script

bash scripts/guardloop-analyze.sh

Step 2: Read the pattern state directly for additional context

.claude/hooks/state/guardloop-patterns.json

Step 3: Read last 5 entries tagged guardloop from the knowledge base to show recent examples

memory_bank/knowledge/errors-universal.jsonl

(filter lines where "tags" array contains "guardloop", take the last 5)

Step 4: Present the report:

GuardLoop Analysis — <date>
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━

  Patterns tracked:    10
  Total detections:    N
  Ready to promote:    N
  Already promoted:    N

  [table from script output]

  Recent detections:
    [last 3 from knowledge base]

If there are patterns ready to promote, recommend: Run /guardloop promote to generate guardrails.


promote — Promote Patterns to Agents

Step 1: Run promotion script

bash scripts/guardloop-promote.sh

Step 2: Read the updated agents/_guardloop-rules.md to confirm the new rules

Read the full file on GitHub · 226 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. yesterday First seen · 226 lines · 12 tokens per session scan A 3137de7274d0

Subscribe to this mod's changes

guardloop is a skill published in the GitHub repository samibs/skillfoundry (12 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 12 tokens to every session and 1,680 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 2026-08-30.

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