hol-guard SKILL.md skillA

hol-guard from hashgraph-online/hol-guard is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.

Install it, pinned
mdr add hashgraph-online/hol-guard/hol-guard@git:20260608.71a64ac

Pins git:20260608.71a64ac in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.

Audit grade
A, 17 of 17 checks passed
Kind
SKILL.md skill
Repository
hashgraph-online/hol-guard
Path
.factory/skills/hol-guard/SKILL.md
Versions recorded
1
Latest version
git:20260608.71a64ac, committed Jun 8, 2026
Size
2,167 bytes
Repository stars
1,061
License
Apache-2.0

Run HOL Guard scanner and guard operations via `uv run hol-guard`. Use when the user asks to scan plugins/MCP/skills for security, quality, or ecosystem compliance, or when they ask to run guard detect/install/protect workflows for local AI harnesses.

Collected from public GitHub. Every version is saved exactly as it was and never changes. Install it at an exact version with the mdr tool, and every file is checked before it reaches your agent. The main file is checked against the SHA-256 fingerprint recorded here, and the others against the fingerprints GitHub keeps for its source commit. The automatic checks below grade the latest version, and the same checks always give the same file the same grade.

What the file says

# HOL Guard

HOL Guard is an AI Antivirus scanner that checks plugins, MCP servers, skills, and local AI harnesses for security, quality, and ecosystem compliance.

## Prerequisites

- Always run from the `hol-guard` project root.
- Use `uv run hol-guard` to invoke the CLI. Never invoke Python modules directly.
- Ensure `uv sync --frozen --extra dev` has been run before invoking.

## Scanner Operations

Scan a plugin or skill directory:

```
uv run hol-guard scan <directory> [--format json|text|markdown|sarif] [--profile default|public-marketplace|strict-security] [--fail-on-severity critical|high|medium|low|info|none]
```

Lint rules:

```
uv run hol-guard lint <directory> [--list-rules] [--explain <rule-id>]
```

Verify runtime:

```
uv run hol-guard verify <directory> [--online]
```

List ecosystems:

```
uv run hol-guard --list-ecosystems
```

## Guard Operations

Detect harnesses:

```
uv run hol-guard detect [codex|claude|cursor|gemini|opencode] [--json]
```

Run guard in dry-run mode:

```
uv run hol-guard run <harness> --dry-run --default-action allow --json
```

Check guard status:

```
uv run hol-guard status [--json]
```

## Common Test Fixtures
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Read the whole file at its exact version.

How to install

The exact contents, by fingerprint
mdr add hashgraph-online/hol-guard/hol-guard@sha256:6fe65f495bef188e

The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260608.71a64ac, which is what most people want. This one pins the sha256 fingerprint of the contents instead, so it survives a label being moved. Either way the exact version is written to mdr.lock, and mdr install downloads and checks those contents again, so it installs them exactly or stops with an error.

Badge

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[![mdr](https://markdownregistry.com/badge/art_3hoxavxtfxly6ujk.svg)](https://markdownregistry.com/a/art_3hoxavxtfxly6ujk)

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Versions

The registry has recorded 1 version of this file, committed on Jun 8, 2026.

versioncommittedcommitsizeaudit
git:20260608.71a64ac latest2026-06-08 71a64ac 2,167 BA view

Audit of the latest version

A  17 of 17 checks passed. Fixed automatic checks with no AI involved, so the same checks give the same answer every run.
  • pass: Frontmatter block present
  • pass: Frontmatter declares a name
  • pass: Frontmatter declares a description
  • pass: Size between 200 bytes and 200 KB (2167 bytes)
  • pass: No zero-width or bidi control characters
  • pass: No instruction hidden inside an HTML comment
  • pass: No link to an exfiltration or paste host
  • pass: No credential-shaped string
  • pass: No instruction to send local credentials anywhere
  • pass: No text hidden with inline styles
  • pass: No prompt-injection phrasing
  • pass: No curl or wget piped into a shell
  • pass: No recursive delete of root, home or parent
  • pass: No instruction to read or print local credentials
  • pass: No base64 blob over 200 characters
  • pass: No link to a raw IP address
  • pass: No script tag

Source

GitHub

hashgraph-online/hol-guard · 1,061 stars · license Apache-2.0 · pushed 2026-11-04 · branch main

API

GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_3hoxavxtfxly6ujk
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=hashgraph-online/hol-guard/hol-guard
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/6fe65f495bef188e93a330b65b0b0eab51f8c1d08b11874ab7eea8f9cb9e1da3

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