reduce-workspace-guard-prompts SKILL.md skillA
reduce-workspace-guard-prompts from karlkfi/claude-bouncer is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add karlkfi/claude-bouncer/reduce-workspace-guard-prompts@git:20261004.442c86ePins git:20261004.442c86e in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- karlkfi/claude-bouncer
- Path
plugins/workspace-guard/skills/reduce-workspace-guard-prompts/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 3
- Latest version
- git:20261004.442c86e, committed Oct 4, 2026
- First version recorded
- Aug 22, 2026
- Size
- 6,990 bytes
- Repository stars
- 13
- License
- MIT
Explain why workspace-guard is prompting on Bash file commands and how to stop the avoidable prompts. Use when the user asks "why am I getting so many permission prompts", "reduce workspace-guard prompts", "stop the grep/cat permission prompts", or otherwise wants fewer confirmation prompts from this hook.
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
# Reducing workspace-guard prompts
workspace-guard is a `PreToolUse` hook that prompts before a guarded bash file
command (`grep`, `sed`, `awk`, `jq`, `cat`, `head`, `tail`, `cp`, `mv`, `rm`,
`tee`, `dd`, and friends) reads or writes a path **outside the project root**
(`$CLAUDE_PROJECT_DIR`). In-root reads and pure pipelines run silently. So a
flood of prompts means commands keep resolving paths outside the root — usually
for one of the avoidable reasons below, not because the work genuinely needs
outside files.
## Diagnose
Don't guess about past friction — measure it. The plugin ships an analyzer,
`scripts/friction-report.py`, that re-reads the hook decisions Claude Code
already recorded in the local session transcripts and ranks them by category,
offending path, and triggering command. Run it first so the diagnosis is
grounded in the user's real prompt history:
```
python3 "${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/scripts/friction-report.py" --repo "$(basename "$CLAUDE_PROJECT_DIR")"
```
This reports the friction ratio (ask+deny share), a **By category** breakdown,
the **top offending paths**, and the **top triggering commands** for the current
…Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add karlkfi/claude-bouncer/reduce-workspace-guard-prompts@sha256:560afbbee6988bb1The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20261004.442c86e, 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.
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Versions
The registry has recorded 3 versions of this file, between Aug 22, 2026 and Oct 4, 2026, about one every 22 days.
| version | committed | commit | size | audit | |
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| git:20261004.442c86e latest | 2026-10-04 | 442c86e | 6,990 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260905.544f40e | 2026-09-05 | 544f40e | 7,019 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260822.b9e0405 | 2026-08-22 | b9e0405 | 7,022 B | A | view |
Audit of the latest version
- pass: Frontmatter block present
- pass: Frontmatter declares a name
- pass: Frontmatter declares a description
- pass: Size between 200 bytes and 200 KB (6990 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
karlkfi/claude-bouncer · 13 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-11-06 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_5io5ko6cdk3xmuhq GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=karlkfi/claude-bouncer/reduce-workspace-guard-prompts GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/560afbbee6988bb1543ef7176631200f91100def3b66a997cfb9b288b5dabb0e
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