mav-scope-boundaries

mav-scope-boundaries is a skill for Claude Code from thermiteau/maverick. It costs 38 tokens per session (1,641 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A set of safety rules for Claude Code, an AI coding assistant, that defines actions it must not take without clear permission. It covers infrastructure, login and access controls, destructive Git actions, and production systems.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to control changes to infrastructure and production, protected Git branches, commits and pushes, and other destructive or security-sensitive operations.
Why use it?
It reduces the risk of an assistant making unauthorized changes to important code, systems, or data. A hook can ask for approval or block the action.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: disable-model-invocation in frontmatter. Also seen: mentions Claude Code.

Part of the maverick plugin — 41 skills, 5 agents, 5 hooks shipped together

Good fit Use it to control changes to infrastructure and production, protected Git branches, commits and pushes, and other destructive or security-sensitive operations.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/thermiteau/maverick/mav-scope-boundaries
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 thermiteau/maverick --skill mav-scope-boundaries
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/thermiteau/maverick

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install maverick, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 41 skills, 5 agents, 5 hooks.

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Per session 38 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,641 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 $0.00038 $0.01641
Opus 5 $0.00019 $0.00821
Sonnet 5 $0.00008 $0.00328
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00164

Measured 10d ago against content hash 44121f62c707, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

mav-scope-boundaries 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 10d 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/mav-scope-boundaries/SKILL.md · 203 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 203 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Scope Boundaries

Hard limits on what Claude Code may do autonomously. These boundaries apply to all workflows, skills, and agents regardless of context.

Principle

When in doubt, don't. The cost of pausing to ask is low. The cost of an unauthorised destructive action is high.

Mechanical Enforcement

These boundaries are not prose-only. The plugin's scope-guard hook (hooks/scope_guard.py, a PreToolUse hook) mechanically gates destructive git operations, commits/pushes on protected branches, infrastructure-path edits, and production-pattern commands — asking the user in interactive sessions and denying in autonomous mode. If the hook blocks an action you believe is authorized:

  • Infrastructure: record the issue-level authorization with uv run maverick coord authorize <repo> <issue> infra (requires the maverick-authorize-infra label or a Maverick-Authorize: infra body line on the issue). Never write .maverick/session-auth.json directly.
  • Destructive git: ask the user for consent in the current session; in autonomous mode there is no consent path — do not work around the block.
  • Production: there is no override, in any mode.

Do not disable the guard (MAVERICK_GUARD_DISABLE) or edit hook configuration to get past a block — a blocked action is a signal to escalate, not an obstacle to engineer around.

Restricted Actions

1. Infrastructure Changes

Do not modify CI/CD pipelines, deployment configs, or infrastructure-as-code unless the issue/task explicitly instructs it.

Restricted:

  • .github/workflows/ files (GitHub Actions)
  • Dockerfile, docker-compose.yml
  • Terraform, CDK, CloudFormation, Pulumi files
  • Deployment scripts (deploy.sh, release.yml)
  • Environment variable configuration in CI settings
  • Kubernetes manifests, Helm charts
  • Nginx, Apache, or reverse proxy configs

How authorisation works:

  • The issue/task must explicitly request the infrastructure change
  • General instructions like "set up the project" or "make it work" do not constitute authorisation
  • If the issue/task says "update the CI workflow to add a lint step", that is authorisation for that specific change

Read the full file on GitHub · 203 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. 10d ago First seen · 203 lines · 38 tokens per session scan A 44121f62c707

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mav-scope-boundaries is a skill published in the GitHub repository thermiteau/maverick (11 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 38 tokens to every session and 1,641 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 2026-08-30.

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