HOL Guard MCP Server
Local-first AI agent security evidence and approval workflows through HOL Guard's stdio MCP server.
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Published as hol-guard on pypi. Runs locally.
Reviewed GitHub reports
5 GitHub reports passed Pod's relevance review. This can include external reports, maintainer-confirmed bugs, and concrete feature gaps.
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[bug] Hermes runtime enforcement is absent in local mode: pre-tool hook is generated but never invoked
Affected surface
hol-guard
What happened?
hol-guard install hermes generates ~/.hol-guard/hermes/pretool-hook.json, and
hol-guard doctor hermes reports Protection: Protected. However, nothing in
~/.hermes/config.yaml invokes that hook. Inside a hol-guard run hermes session, the
agent ran rm -rf ~/root-ajay to completion with no Guard prompt, no approval request,
no event, and no receipt.
Launch-time artifact review works correctly. Runtime enforcement does not appear…
Read the thread · 2026-09-01 · closed · external user · 2 comments
[extension] Optional Repro Surgeon project-command execution review
Contribution type
New optional command safety Extension. I maintain Repro Surgeon. This follows the integration suggestion in our r/npm discussion.
Proposed Extension ID
command.repro-surgeon (external, opt-in), with an initial command.repro-surgeon.execute rule.
Capability boundary
Review installed Repro Surgeon invocations that execute configured…
Read the thread · 2026-09-07 · open · external user · 1 comment
[enhancement] Pin the action's full dependency chain and the documented install commands
Problem to solve
Hi, I maintain zuke, a build automation tool for Deno/TypeScript. We were invited to list our agent plugin in awesome-ai-plugins, which requires running ai-plugin-scanner-action in our CI.
Zuke is a security-focused project (pinned actions, OpenSSF practices, the usual), so before adding any third-party action to our workflows we reviewed the whole chain. Most of it holds up well: the…
Read the thread · 2026-08-27 · closed · external user · 1 comment
[bug] CLAUDE_MARKETPLACE_STRICT_INVALID reads "strict" at the marketplace root; Claude Code defines it per plugin entry
Affected surface
plugin-scanner
What happened?
The Claude marketplace structure check reads strict from the top level of .claude-plugin/marketplace.json and reports CLAUDE_MARKETPLACE_STRICT_INVALID when no boolean is there:
Claude Code defines strict as an optional boolean on each entry of the plugins array, default true, and…
Read the thread · 2026-09-07 · closed · external user · 0 comments
HARDCODED_SECRET flags ${VAR} expansions outside docs/tests paths
plugin-scanner 3.0.105 flags API_KEY="${GEMINI_API_KEY:-}" as HARDCODED_SECRET when the file is outside a docs, tests or examples path.
Cause: in checks/security.py, _should_skip_secret_match returns early with False when _is_example_surface is false, so _looks_like_placeholder_secret never runs for scripts. That check already treats a value starting with ${ as a placeholder, it just never gets asked.
Repro, any plugin with a shell script under scripts/:
[Read the thread](https://github.com/hashgraph-online/hol-guard/issues/2811) · 2026-09-06 · closed · external user · 0 comments
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