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Guard

  • 203 installs
  • 126k repo stars
  • Updated July 15, 2026
  • garrytan/gstack

Apply gstack guardrails that block unsafe agent actions, secret leaks, destructive commands, or policy violations before changes land.

About

The guard skill in garrytan/gstack acts as a security gate for agent and CLI operations, evaluating commands, file changes, and external calls against gstack policies to stop unsafe or noncompliant work before it ships.

  • Policy-based action blocking
  • Secret and credential scanning
  • Destructive command prevention
  • Pairs with freeze baseline
  • Audit-friendly denials

Guard by the numbers

  • 203 all-time installs (skills.sh)
  • Ranked #766 of 2,203 Security skills by installs in the Skillselion catalog
  • Data as of Aug 5, 2026 (Skillselion catalog sync)
npx skills add https://github.com/garrytan/gstack --skill guard

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Installs203
repo stars126k
Last updatedJuly 15, 2026
Repositorygarrytan/gstack

What it does

Apply gstack guardrails that block unsafe agent actions, secret leaks, destructive commands, or policy violations before changes land.

Files

SKILL.mdMarkdownGitHub ↗

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When to invoke this skill

Combines /careful (warns before rm -rf, DROP TABLE, force-push, etc.) with /freeze (blocks edits outside a specified directory). Use for maximum safety when touching prod or debugging live systems. Use when asked to "guard mode", "full safety", "lock it down", or "maximum safety".

/guard — Full Safety Mode

Activates both destructive command warnings and directory-scoped edit restrictions. This is the combination of /careful + /freeze in a single command.

Dependency note: This skill references hook scripts from the sibling /careful and /freeze skill directories. Both must be installed (they are installed together by the gstack setup script).

mkdir -p ~/.gstack/analytics
echo '{"skill":"guard","ts":"'$(date -u +%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%SZ)'","repo":"'$(basename "$(git rev-parse --show-toplevel 2>/dev/null)" 2>/dev/null || echo "unknown")'"}'  >> ~/.gstack/analytics/skill-usage.jsonl 2>/dev/null || true

Setup

Ask the user which directory to restrict edits to. Use AskUserQuestion:

  • Question: "Guard mode: which directory should edits be restricted to? Destructive command warnings are always on. Files outside the chosen path will be blocked from editing."
  • Text input (not multiple choice) — the user types a path.

Once the user provides a directory path:

1. Resolve it to an absolute path:

FREEZE_DIR=$(cd "<user-provided-path>" 2>/dev/null && pwd)
echo "$FREEZE_DIR"

2. Ensure trailing slash and save to the freeze state file:

FREEZE_DIR="${FREEZE_DIR%/}/"
eval "$(~/.claude/skills/gstack/bin/gstack-paths)"
STATE_DIR="$GSTACK_STATE_ROOT"
mkdir -p "$STATE_DIR"
echo "$FREEZE_DIR" > "$STATE_DIR/freeze-dir.txt"
echo "Freeze boundary set: $FREEZE_DIR"

Tell the user:

  • "Guard mode active. Two protections are now running:"
  • "1. Destructive command warnings — rm -rf, DROP TABLE, force-push, etc. will warn before executing (you can override)"
  • "2. Edit boundary — file edits restricted to <path>/. Edits outside this directory are blocked."
  • "To remove the edit boundary, run /unfreeze. To deactivate everything, end the session."

What's protected

See /careful for the full list of destructive command patterns and safe exceptions. See /freeze for how edit boundary enforcement works.

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