| name | thumbgate-blocked |
| description | Show ThumbGate's enforcement record — how many risky actions were actually blocked versus warned, which gates fire most, the tokens/damage saved, and the full feedback to check to rejection pipeline. Reads live enforcement counters via the gate_stats and enforcement_matrix MCP tools (CLI fallback `npx thumbgate gate-stats`). Use when the user says "what has ThumbGate blocked", "show gate stats", "is enforcement working", "how many tokens did we save", "show the enforcement matrix", or "what got stopped". Do NOT use to list rule DEFINITIONS that exist (use the thumbgate-rules skill), to create a new rule (use the thumbgate-guard skill), or to check whether ThumbGate is installed and wired (use the thumbgate-doctor skill). |
ThumbGate Blocked
Show the enforcement record: how many risky actions were blocked vs warned, which gates fire most,
and the full feedback → check → rejection pipeline. Each block is a repeat mistake stopped before
it spent tokens or did damage.
This skill wraps existing ThumbGate capability and adds no new logic — it reads the live
enforcement counters.
Workflow
- Headline numbers with the
gate_stats MCP tool: blocked count, warned count, and the top
gates by hits. (CLI fallback: npx thumbgate gate-stats.)
- Full picture with the
enforcement_matrix MCP tool: feedback-pipeline stats, active
pre-action checks, and the rejection ledger with revival conditions.
- Summarize for the user: total blocks, most-triggered gates, and anything in the rejection
ledger close to revival.
- If counts are all zero, say enforcement is wired but hasn't fired yet and point to the
thumbgate-guard skill to promote a rule.
Field-by-field meanings (blocked vs warned, the rejection ledger, revival conditions) are in
references/enforcement-fields.md.
Example
Input: "is ThumbGate actually blocking anything? how many tokens did we save?"
Action: call gate_stats for the counters and enforcement_matrix for the pipeline, then:
14 blocks, 3 warns in the last 30 days. Top gate: no-force-push-main (6 hits). Estimated
~9k tokens saved from re-runs avoided. 1 archived gate is one strike from revival.
Troubleshooting
- All zeros but rules exist: enforcement is wired but no gated action has been attempted yet —
this is normal early on.
- All zeros and rules also empty: nothing has been promoted — use the thumbgate-guard skill.
gate_stats / enforcement_matrix unreachable: fall back to npx thumbgate gate-stats, then
run the thumbgate-doctor skill to confirm the MCP server and hooks are live.
Quality checklist (self-verify before delivering)
