live-system-guardrails

live-system-guardrails is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from zhengbingquant/frontier-skills. It costs 130 tokens per session (2,229 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A safety procedure for working with systems connected to production, real money, customer traffic, physical devices, or scheduled jobs.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to identify live systems with read-only checks, inspect dependencies and credential names safely, and follow controlled steps before starting, stopping, or changing live services.
Why use it?
It reduces the chance that an innocent-looking command changes live data, loses money, interrupts service, or causes damage that cannot be undone.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Use it to identify live systems with read-only checks, inspect dependencies and credential names safely, and follow controlled steps before starting, stopping, or changing live services.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/zhengbingquant/frontier-skills/live-system-guardrails
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 zhengbingquant/frontier-skills --skill live-system-guardrails
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/zhengbingquant/frontier-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 130 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,229 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 1 finding. 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 $0.00130 $0.02229
Opus 5 $0.00065 $0.01115
Sonnet 5 $0.00026 $0.00446
Haiku 4.5 $0.00013 $0.00223

Measured 12d ago against content hash 55b119fddcda, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

live-system-guardrails scanned grade A 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 12d 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.

Makes network callslowCapability

Not a fault in itself. Listed so you know the mod talks to something, and to what.

1. `grep -rlE 'requests|httpx|urllib|socket|websocket' tests/ | head` — do
skills/live-system-guardrails/SKILL.md · 179 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 179 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Live System Guardrails

A live system is one where a wrong command loses money, drops traffic, or corrupts real state — and where "undo" may not exist. This skill gives mechanical rules for (1) detecting that you are in one, (2) what you may and may not do there, and (3) how to change things when a change is genuinely authorized.

The prime rule: when uncertain, classify as LIVE. Misclassifying a dev box as live costs politeness; misclassifying a live system as dev can cost real money.

1. Detect — run these read-only probes

All probes below are safe. Run them on first contact with an unfamiliar repo or host, before forming any plan that changes state.

  1. Dependencies: search manifests for high-stakes SDKs: grep -riE 'futu|moomoo|ib_insync|ibapi|ccxt|alpaca|binance|stripe|braintree|plaid|twilio|boto3|google-cloud|kubernetes' requirements*.txt pyproject.toml package.json 2>/dev/null A hit means the code CAN talk to brokers, payments, or infrastructure.
  2. Docs: grep -rilE 'live trading|production|real money|live account' README* docs/ 2>/dev/null
  3. Credentials present (check NAMES only — never print values): ls -la .env* config/ 2>/dev/null and grep -oE '^[A-Z0-9_]+' .env 2>/dev/null — look for names containing LIVE, PROD, REAL, SECRET, API_KEY.
  4. Running processes: pgrep -af 'python|node|java|OpenD|gateway|server' filtered to this project's paths. A repo whose entry point is currently running is live until proven otherwise. Do not paste full command lines into your report if they may contain secrets.
  5. Scheduled jobs: crontab -l 2>/dev/null and systemctl --user list-units --type=service --state=running 2>/dev/null.
  6. Fresh state: ls -lt logs/ data/ results/ 2>/dev/null | head — files modified within the last day mean something is actively using this repo.
  7. Listening ports and containers: ss -tln 2>/dev/null | head and docker ps 2>/dev/null — a service listening on a port or a running container tied to this project is a strong live signal.

Read the full file on GitHub · 179 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. 12d ago First seen · 179 lines · 130 tokens per session scan A 55b119fddcda

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live-system-guardrails is a skill published in the GitHub repository zhengbingquant/frontier-skills (2 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 130 tokens to every session and 2,229 once invoked, about $0.0006 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 1 finding (makes network calls). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-31.