failproofai-pack.json

{
  "id": "FailproofAI/policies",
  "version": "1.0.7-beta.2",
  "effect": "enforce",
  "policies": [
    {
      "name": "sanitize-jwt",
      "description": "Stop Claude from reading JWTs in tool responses",
      "displayTitle": "Redacted JWT tokens from tool output",
      "impact": "Stops the agent from echoing auth tokens it saw in command output.",
      "match": {
        "events": [
          "PostToolUse"
        ]
      },
      "authority": "hard",
      "defaultEnabled": true,
      "category": "Sanitize"
    },
    {
      "name": "sanitize-api-keys",
      "description": "Stop Claude from reading API keys (OpenAI, Anthropic, GitHub, AWS, Stripe, Google) in tool responses",
      "displayTitle": "Redacted API keys from tool output",
      "impact": "Catches OpenAI / Anthropic / GitHub / AWS / Stripe / Google keys before the model sees them.",
      "match": {
        "events": [
          "PostToolUse"
        ]
      },
      "authority": "hard",
      "defaultEnabled": true,
      "category": "Sanitize",
      "params": {
        "additionalPatterns": {
          "type": "pattern[]",
          "description": "Additional API key patterns to scrub, each with { regex, label }",
          "default": []
        }
      }
    },
    {
      "name": "sanitize-connection-strings",
      "description": "Stop Claude from reading database connection strings with embedded credentials in tool responses",
      "displayTitle": "Redacted database connection strings from tool output",
      "impact": "Strips embedded DB credentials before they reach the model context.",
      "match": {
        "events": [
          "PostToolUse"
        ]
      },
      "authority": "hard",
      "defaultEnabled": true,
      "category": "Sanitize"
    },
    {
      "name": "sanitize-private-key-content",
      "description": "Stop Claude from reading PEM private key content in tool responses",
      "displayTitle": "Redacted PEM private keys from tool output",
      "impact": "Prevents private key bodies from being echoed into chat context.",
      "match": {
        "events": [
          "PostToolUse"
        ]
      },
      "authority": "hard",
      "defaultEnabled": true,
      "category": "Sanitize"
    },
    {
      "name": "sanitize-bearer-tokens",
      "displayTitle": "Redacted bearer tokens from tool output",
      "impact": "Strips Authorization: Bearer values before they hit the model.",
      "description": "Stop Claude from reading Authorization Bearer tokens in tool responses",
      "match": {
        "events": [
          "PostToolUse"
        ]
      },
      "authority": "hard",
      "defaultEnabled": true,
      "category": "Sanitize"
    },
    {
      "name": "protect-env-vars",
      "displayTitle": "Tried to dump environment variables to chat",
      "impact": "Env vars often contain secrets; blocking `env` / `printenv` keeps them out of the model context.",
      "description": "Prevent commands that read environment variables",
      "match": {
        "events": [
          "PreToolUse"
        ],
        "toolNames": [
          "Bash"
        ]
      },
      "authority": "reviewable",
      "reviewedBy": [
        "env-secrets-dump",
        "secret-exposure"
      ],
      "defaultEnabled": true,
      "category": "Environment"
    },
    {
      "name": "block-env-files",
      "displayTitle": "Tried to read or write a .env file",
      "impact": "`.env` files routinely contain API keys and DB credentials.",
      "description": "Block reading/writing .env files",
      "match": {
        "events": [
          "PreToolUse"
        ]
      },
      "authority": "reviewable",
      "reviewedBy": [
        "secret-exposure"
      ],
      "defaultEnabled": true,
      "category": "Environment"
    },
    {
      "name": "block-read-outside-cwd",
      "displayTitle": "Tried to read files outside your project directory",
      "impact": "Stops the agent from peeking at neighboring repos or your home directory.",
      "description": "Block file reads outside the session working directory",
      "match": {
        "events": [
          "PreToolUse"
        ],
        "toolNames": [
          "Read",
          "Glob",
          "Grep",
          "Bash"
        ]
      },
      "authority": "reviewable",
      "reviewedBy": [
        "read-outside-workspace"
      ],
      "defaultEnabled": false,
      "category": "Environment",
      "params": {
        "allowPaths": {
          "type": "string[]",
          "description": "Absolute paths outside cwd that are allowed to be read",
          "default": []
        }
      }
    },
    {
      "name": "block-sudo",
      "displayTitle": "Tried to run a command with sudo",
      "impact": "Sudo gives the agent root — blocked unless explicitly allow-listed.",
      "description": "Block sudo commands",
      "match": {
        "events": [
          "PreToolUse",
          "PermissionRequest"
        ],
        "toolNames": [
          "Bash"
        ]
      },
      "authority": "hard",
      "defaultEnabled": true,
      "category": "Dangerous Commands",
      "params": {
        "allowPatterns": {
          "type": "string[]",
          "description": "Sudo command patterns to allow, matched token-by-token (e.g. 'sudo systemctl status')",
          "default": []
        }
      }
    },
    {
      "name": "block-curl-pipe-sh",
      "displayTitle": "Tried to pipe a downloaded script straight to a shell",
      "impact": "`curl ... | sh` runs unverified remote code on your machine.",
      "description": "Block piping downloads to shell",
      "match": {
        "events": [
          "PreToolUse"
        ],
        "toolNames": [
          "Bash"
        ]
      },
      "authority": "hard",
      "defaultEnabled": true,
      "category": "Dangerous Commands"
    },
    {
      "name": "block-rm-rf",
      "displayTitle": "Tried to recursively delete a system path",
      "impact": "Catches catastrophic `rm -rf /` and Windows equivalents.",
      "description": "Prevent catastrophic deletions",
      "match": {
        "events": [
          "PreToolUse"
        ],
        "toolNames": [
          "Bash"
        ]
      },
      "authority": "reviewable",
      "reviewedBy": [
        "destructive-deletion"
      ],
      "defaultEnabled": false,
      "category": "Dangerous Commands",
      "params": {
        "allowPaths": {
          "type": "string[]",
          "description": "Paths that are allowed to be recursively deleted",
          "default": []
        }
      }
    },
    {
      "name": "block-kubectl",
      "displayTitle": "Tried to run a Kubernetes command",
      "impact": "kubectl can change live cluster state — gated unless allow-listed.",
      "description": "Block kubectl commands (Kubernetes cluster mutations)",
      "match": {
        "events": [
          "PreToolUse"
        ],
        "toolNames": [
          "Bash"
        ]
      },
      "authority": "reviewable",
      "reviewedBy": [
        "production-infra-change"
      ],
      "defaultEnabled": false,
      "category": "Infra Commands",
      "params": {
        "allowPatterns": {
          "type": "string[]",
          "description": "kubectl command patterns to allow, matched token-by-token (e.g. 'kubectl get *', 'kubectl describe *')",
          "default": []
        }
      }
    },
    {
      "name": "block-terraform",
      "displayTitle": "Tried to run a Terraform/OpenTofu command",
      "impact": "Terraform mutates real infrastructure — gated unless allow-listed.",
      "description": "Block terraform and tofu (OpenTofu) commands",
      "match": {
        "events": [
          "PreToolUse"
        ],
        "toolNames": [
          "Bash"
        ]
      },
      "authority": "reviewable",
      "reviewedBy": [
        "production-infra-change"
      ],
      "defaultEnabled": false,
      "category": "Infra Commands",
      "params": {
        "allowPatterns": {
          "type": "string[]",
          "description": "terraform/tofu command patterns to allow (e.g. 'terraform plan', 'terraform validate')",
          "default": []
        }
      }
    },
    {
      "name": "block-aws-cli",
      "displayTitle": "Tried to run an AWS CLI command",
      "impact": "AWS CLI can spend money or break prod — gated.",
      "description": "Block aws CLI commands",
      "match": {
        "events": [
          "PreToolUse"
        ],
        "toolNames": [
          "Bash"
        ]
      },
      "authority": "reviewable",
      "reviewedBy": [
        "production-infra-change"
      ],
      "defaultEnabled": false,
      "category": "Infra Commands",
      "params": {
        "allowPatterns": {
          "type": "string[]",
          "description": "aws CLI command patterns to allow (e.g. 'aws s3 ls *', 'aws sts get-caller-identity')",
          "default": []
        }
      }
    },
    {
      "name": "block-gcloud",
      "displayTitle": "Tried to run a Google Cloud command",
      "impact": "gcloud can spend money or break prod — gated.",
      "description": "Block gcloud (Google Cloud) CLI commands",
      "match": {
        "events": [
          "PreToolUse"
        ],
        "toolNames": [
          "Bash"
        ]
      },
      "authority": "reviewable",
      "reviewedBy": [
        "production-infra-change"
      ],
      "defaultEnabled": false,
      "category": "Infra Commands",
      "params": {
        "allowPatterns": {
          "type": "string[]",
          "description": "gcloud command patterns to allow (e.g. 'gcloud auth list', 'gcloud config list')",
          "default": []
        }
      }
    },
    {
      "name": "block-az-cli",
      "displayTitle": "Tried to run an Azure CLI command",
      "impact": "az can spend money or break prod — gated.",
      "description": "Block az (Azure) CLI commands",
      "match": {
        "events": [
          "PreToolUse"
        ],
        "toolNames": [
          "Bash"
        ]
      },
      "authority": "reviewable",
      "reviewedBy": [
        "production-infra-change"
      ],
      "defaultEnabled": false,
      "category": "Infra Commands",
      "params": {
        "allowPatterns": {
          "type": "string[]",
          "description": "az CLI command patterns to allow (e.g. 'az account show', 'az group list')",
          "default": []
        }
      }
    },
    {
      "name": "block-helm",
      "displayTitle": "Tried to run a Helm command",
      "impact": "Helm releases mutate cluster state — gated.",
      "description": "Block helm commands",
      "match": {
        "events": [
          "PreToolUse"
        ],
        "toolNames": [
          "Bash"
        ]
      },
      "authority": "reviewable",
      "reviewedBy": [
        "production-infra-change"
      ],
      "defaultEnabled": false,
      "category": "Infra Commands",
      "params": {
        "allowPatterns": {
          "type": "string[]",
          "description": "helm command patterns to allow (e.g. 'helm list', 'helm status *')",
          "default": []
        }
      }
    },
    {
      "name": "block-gh-pipeline",
      "displayTitle": "Tried to run a privileged GitHub CLI pipeline command",
      "impact": "Catches `gh workflow run`, `gh pr merge`, `gh secret set`, etc.",
      "description": "Block gh CLI pipeline-trigger subcommands (workflow run, run rerun/cancel, pr merge, release create/delete, cache delete, secret set/delete)",
      "match": {
        "events": [
          "PreToolUse"
        ],
        "toolNames": [
          "Bash"
        ]
      },
      "authority": "hard",
      "defaultEnabled": false,
      "category": "Infra Commands",
      "params": {
        "allowPatterns": {
          "type": "string[]",
          "description": "gh pipeline command patterns to allow (e.g. specific scripted invocations); read-only gh subcommands like 'gh pr view' and 'gh run list' are not matched by this policy",
          "default": []
        }
      }
    },
    {
      "name": "block-secrets-write",
      "displayTitle": "Tried to write a secret-key file",
      "impact": "Stops the agent from creating `.pem`, `id_rsa`, `credentials.json`, etc.",
      "description": "Block writing secret key files",
      "match": {
        "events": [
          "PreToolUse"
        ],
        "toolNames": [
          "Write"
        ]
      },
      "authority": "reviewable",
      "reviewedBy": [
        "secret-exposure"
      ],
      "defaultEnabled": false,
      "category": "Dangerous Commands",
      "params": {
        "additionalPatterns": {
          "type": "string[]",
          "description": "Additional filename patterns (substrings) to block",
          "default": []
        }
      }
    },
    {
      "name": "block-push-master",
      "displayTitle": "Tried to push directly to main/master",
      "impact": "Direct pushes to a protected branch bypass review.",
      "description": "Block pushing to main/master",
      "match": {
        "events": [
          "PreToolUse"
        ],
        "toolNames": [
          "Bash"
        ]
      },
      "authority": "hard",
      "defaultEnabled": true,
      "category": "Git",
      "params": {
        "protectedBranches": {
          "type": "string[]",
          "description": "Branch names to protect from direct pushes",
          "default": [
            "main",
            "master"
          ]
        }
      }
    },
    {
      "name": "block-force-push",
      "displayTitle": "Tried to force-push",
      "impact": "Force-pushes rewrite history and can clobber teammates' work.",
      "description": "Prevent force-pushing to any branch",
      "match": {
        "events": [
          "PreToolUse"
        ],
        "toolNames": [
          "Bash"
        ]
      },
      "authority": "reviewable",
      "reviewedBy": [
        "git-history-rewrite"
      ],
      "defaultEnabled": false,
      "category": "Git"
    },
    {
      "name": "block-work-on-main",
      "displayTitle": "Tried to commit or merge on main/master",
      "impact": "Work should land via PR — direct commits skip review.",
      "description": "Block git commits and merges on main/master branch",
      "match": {
        "events": [
          "PreToolUse"
        ],
        "toolNames": [
          "Bash"
        ]
      },
      "authority": "hard",
      "defaultEnabled": false,
      "category": "Git",
      "params": {
        "protectedBranches": {
          "type": "string[]",
          "description": "Branch names where commits/merges are blocked",
          "default": [
            "main",
            "master"
          ]
        }
      }
    },
    {
      "name": "warn-git-amend",
      "displayTitle": "Used git commit --amend",
      "impact": "Amending after a push rewrites history that others may have pulled.",
      "description": "Warns before amending git commits, which rewrites history",
      "match": {
        "events": [
          "PreToolUse"
        ],
        "toolNames": [
          "Bash"
        ]
      },
      "authority": "reviewable",
      "reviewedBy": [
        "git-history-rewrite"
      ],
      "defaultEnabled": false,
      "category": "Git"
    },
    {
      "name": "warn-git-stash-drop",
      "displayTitle": "Tried to drop or clear git stash",
      "impact": "Stash deletions are permanent and silent.",
      "description": "Warns before permanently deleting stashed changes",
      "match": {
        "events": [
          "PreToolUse"
        ],
        "toolNames": [
          "Bash"
        ]
      },
      "authority": "hard",
      "defaultEnabled": false,
      "category": "Git"
    },
    {
      "name": "warn-git-clean",
      "displayTitle": "Tried to delete untracked or ignored files with git clean",
      "impact": "`git clean -fdx` takes `.env`, local config and unstaged work — git never had a copy of any of it.",
      "description": "Warns before git clean deletes untracked directories (-d) or ignored files (-x / -X)",
      "match": {
        "events": [
          "PreToolUse"
        ],
        "toolNames": [
          "Bash"
        ]
      },
      "authority": "hard",
      "defaultEnabled": false,
      "category": "Git",
      "params": {
        "destructiveFlags": {
          "type": "string[]",
          "description": "git clean flag letters that make it worth warning about, checked alongside --force. Narrow to ['x','X'] to allow `git clean -fd`, or widen with 'f' to warn on a bare `git clean -f`.",
          "default": [
            "d",
            "x",
            "X"
          ]
        }
      }
    },
    {
      "name": "warn-all-files-staged",
      "displayTitle": "Staged all files with git add -A / .",
      "impact": "Wide stages routinely catch generated files or secrets you didn't intend to commit.",
      "description": "Warns before staging all working tree files with git add -A / . / --all",
      "match": {
        "events": [
          "PreToolUse"
        ],
        "toolNames": [
          "Bash"
        ]
      },
      "authority": "hard",
      "defaultEnabled": false,
      "category": "Git"
    },
    {
      "name": "warn-destructive-sql",
      "displayTitle": "Ran destructive SQL (DROP / TRUNCATE / DELETE without WHERE)",
      "impact": "Easy way to wipe a table by accident.",
      "description": "Warn before executing destructive SQL (DROP/TRUNCATE/DELETE without WHERE) via database clients",
      "match": {
        "events": [
          "PreToolUse"
        ],
        "toolNames": [
          "Bash"
        ]
      },
      "authority": "reviewable",
      "reviewedBy": [
        "database-destruction"
      ],
      "defaultEnabled": false,
      "category": "Database"
    },
    {
      "name": "warn-schema-alteration",
      "displayTitle": "Altered a database schema column",
      "impact": "ALTER TABLE operations can lock tables and break readers.",
      "description": "Warns before SQL schema changes (ALTER TABLE with column or rename operations)",
      "match": {
        "events": [
          "PreToolUse"
        ],
        "toolNames": [
          "Bash"
        ]
      },
      "authority": "hard",
      "defaultEnabled": false,
      "category": "Database"
    },
    {
      "name": "warn-package-publish",
      "displayTitle": "Tried to publish a package",
      "impact": "Publishes are irreversible — `npm publish` / `cargo publish` shouldn't happen without intent.",
      "description": "Warn before publishing packages to public registries (npm, PyPI, crates.io, RubyGems, etc.)",
      "match": {
        "events": [
          "PreToolUse"
        ],
        "toolNames": [
          "Bash"
        ]
      },
      "authority": "hard",
      "defaultEnabled": false,
      "category": "Packages & System"
    },
    {
      "name": "warn-global-package-install",
      "displayTitle": "Installed a package globally",
      "impact": "`npm i -g`, `cargo install`, `pip --user` pollute your machine outside the project.",
      "description": "Warns before installing packages globally (npm -g, cargo install, etc.)",
      "match": {
        "events": [
          "PreToolUse"
        ],
        "toolNames": [
          "Bash"
        ]
      },
      "authority": "reviewable",
      "reviewedBy": [
        "system-modification"
      ],
      "defaultEnabled": false,
      "category": "Packages & System"
    },
    {
      "name": "prefer-package-manager",
      "displayTitle": "Used a non-preferred package manager",
      "impact": "Mixing package managers creates lockfile churn for your team.",
      "description": "Blocks non-preferred package managers and tells Claude to use an allowed one (e.g., uv instead of pip)",
      "match": {
        "events": [
          "PreToolUse"
        ],
        "toolNames": [
          "Bash"
        ]
      },
      "authority": "hard",
      "defaultEnabled": false,
      "category": "Packages & System",
      "params": {
        "allowed": {
          "type": "string[]",
          "description": "Allowed package manager names (e.g. ['uv', 'bun']). Any detected manager not in this list is blocked.",
          "default": []
        },
        "blocked": {
          "type": "string[]",
          "description": "Additional manager names to block beyond the built-in list (e.g. ['pdm', 'pipx']).",
          "default": []
        }
      }
    },
    {
      "name": "warn-large-file-write",
      "displayTitle": "Wrote a file larger than the configured threshold",
      "impact": "Catches accidentally large file writes (logs, binaries, model dumps).",
      "description": "Warn before writing files larger than 1MB (configurable via thresholdKb param)",
      "match": {
        "events": [
          "PreToolUse"
        ],
        "toolNames": [
          "Write"
        ]
      },
      "authority": "hard",
      "defaultEnabled": false,
      "category": "Packages & System",
      "params": {
        "thresholdKb": {
          "type": "number",
          "description": "File size threshold in KB above which a warning is issued",
          "default": 1024
        }
      }
    },
    {
      "name": "warn-background-process",
      "displayTitle": "Started a long-lived background process",
      "impact": "Catches `nohup` / `&` / `screen` / `tmux` / `disown` patterns that the agent often forgets to clean up.",
      "description": "Warns before starting detached or background processes",
      "match": {
        "events": [
          "PreToolUse"
        ],
        "toolNames": [
          "Bash"
        ]
      },
      "authority": "hard",
      "defaultEnabled": false,
      "category": "Packages & System"
    },
    {
      "name": "warn-repeated-tool-calls",
      "displayTitle": "Called the same tool 3+ times with identical arguments",
      "impact": "Usually a sign of a stuck loop burning tokens.",
      "description": "Warn when the same tool is called 3+ times with identical parameters",
      "match": {
        "events": [
          "PreToolUse"
        ]
      },
      "authority": "hard",
      "defaultEnabled": false,
      "category": "AI Behavior"
    },
    {
      "name": "require-commit-before-stop",
      "displayTitle": "Stopped with uncommitted changes",
      "impact": "Work not in a commit is invisible to teammates and easy to lose.",
      "description": "Require all changes to be committed before Claude stops",
      "match": {
        "events": [
          "Stop"
        ]
      },
      "authority": "hard",
      "defaultEnabled": false,
      "category": "Workflow"
    },
    {
      "name": "require-push-before-stop",
      "displayTitle": "Stopped with unpushed commits",
      "impact": "Local-only commits won't trigger CI or be reviewable.",
      "description": "Require all commits to be pushed to remote before Claude stops",
      "match": {
        "events": [
          "Stop"
        ]
      },
      "authority": "hard",
      "defaultEnabled": false,
      "category": "Workflow",
      "params": {
        "remote": {
          "type": "string",
          "description": "Remote name to push to (default: origin)",
          "default": "origin"
        },
        "baseBranch": {
          "type": "string",
          "description": "Base branch to compare against (default: main)",
          "default": "main"
        }
      }
    },
    {
      "name": "require-pr-before-stop",
      "displayTitle": "Stopped without a PR for the branch",
      "impact": "Branches without PRs don't get reviewed.",
      "description": "Require a pull request to exist for the current branch before Claude stops",
      "match": {
        "events": [
          "Stop"
        ]
      },
      "authority": "hard",
      "defaultEnabled": false,
      "category": "Workflow",
      "params": {
        "baseBranch": {
          "type": "string",
          "description": "Base branch to compare against (default: main)",
          "default": "main"
        }
      }
    },
    {
      "name": "require-no-conflicts-before-stop",
      "displayTitle": "Stopped with a branch that conflicts with main",
      "impact": "Conflicting branches can't merge — surface them early.",
      "description": "Require the current branch to merge cleanly with the base branch before Claude stops",
      "match": {
        "events": [
          "Stop"
        ]
      },
      "authority": "hard",
      "defaultEnabled": false,
      "category": "Workflow",
      "params": {
        "baseBranch": {
          "type": "string",
          "description": "Base branch to check for conflicts against (default: main)",
          "default": "main"
        }
      }
    },
    {
      "name": "require-ci-green-before-stop",
      "displayTitle": "Stopped with failing CI",
      "impact": "Failing CI blocks deploy.",
      "description": "Require CI checks to pass on the current HEAD commit before Claude stops (ignores stale runs on prior commits)",
      "match": {
        "events": [
          "Stop"
        ]
      },
      "authority": "hard",
      "defaultEnabled": false,
      "category": "Workflow"
    }
  ]
}