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Enforces Law 3 (One Thing at a Time) of the 7 Laws of AI Agent Discipline by scoping edits to a directory and blocking destructive shell commands. Use this skill to prevent destructive operations when working on production systems or running agents autonomously.

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name	safety-guard
tier	2
description	Enforces Law 3 (One Thing at a Time) of the 7 Laws of AI Agent Discipline by scoping edits to a directory and blocking destructive shell commands. Use this skill to prevent destructive operations when working on production systems or running agents autonomously.
origin	continuous-improvement
disable-model-invocation	true

Safety Guard — Prevent Destructive Operations

When to Use

When working on production systems
When agents are running autonomously (full-auto mode)
When you want to restrict edits to a specific directory
During sensitive operations (migrations, deploys, data changes)

How It Works

Three modes of protection:

Mode 1: Careful Mode

Intercepts destructive commands before execution and warns:

Watched patterns:
- rm -rf (especially /, ~, or project root)
- git push --force
- git reset --hard
- git checkout . (discard all changes)
- DROP TABLE / DROP DATABASE
- docker system prune
- kubectl delete
- chmod 777
- sudo rm
- npm publish (accidental publishes)
- Any command with --no-verify

When detected: shows what the command does, asks for confirmation, suggests safer alternative.

Mode 2: Freeze Mode

Locks file edits to a specific directory tree:

/safety-guard freeze src/components/

Any Write/Edit outside src/components/ is blocked with an explanation. Useful when you want an agent to focus on one area without touching unrelated code.

Mode 3: Guard Mode (Careful + Freeze combined)

Both protections active. Maximum safety for autonomous agents.

/safety-guard guard --dir src/api/ --allow-read-all

Agents can read anything but only write to src/api/. Destructive commands are blocked everywhere.

Unlock

/safety-guard off

Implementation

Currently implemented as skill-side discipline: when restricted-mode is active, the agent reads this skill and refuses Bash, Write, Edit, and MultiEdit calls that violate the rules before invoking the tool. There is no bundled tool-call gate today — the same enforcement gap that existed for gateguard before issue #106 / PR #108. A future runtime version would track via a follow-up issue.

Integration

Enable by default for codex -a never sessions
Pair with observability risk scoring in continuous-improvement v2
Logs all blocked actions to ~/.claude/safety-guard.log