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- package/LICENSE +21 -0
- package/README.md +480 -2
- package/dist/ai/judge.js +36 -0
- package/dist/cli.js +7663 -0
- package/dist/scripts/postinstall.js +215 -0
- package/package.json +80 -4
- package/proctor.schema.json +57 -0
- package/src/skill/SKILL.md +148 -0
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Copyright (c) 2026 Kavish Dua
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<img src="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/catfish-1234/proctor/main/assets/proctor-logo.svg" alt="proctor logo, a watchful eye with a green checkmark pupil" width="96" height="96">
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<h1 align="center">proctor</h1>
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<a href="https://www.npmjs.com/package/@kavishdua/proctor"><img src="https://img.shields.io/npm/v/@kavishdua/proctor?color=2ea043&label=npm" alt="npm version"></a>
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<a href="https://github.com/catfish-1234/proctor/actions/workflows/ci.yml"><img src="https://github.com/catfish-1234/proctor/actions/workflows/ci.yml/badge.svg?branch=main" alt="CI status"></a>
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<a href="https://github.com/catfish-1234/proctor/blob/main/LICENSE"><img src="https://img.shields.io/npm/l/@kavishdua/proctor?color=blue" alt="MIT license"></a>
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<p align="center"><strong>Catch test tampering in AI coding agents' changes.</strong></p>
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proctor checks your git diff for deleted tests, weakened assertions, hardcoded answers,
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swallowed errors, and disabled checks. Its hooks block changes that trigger an error finding.
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The default check runs offline: no account or API key. The optional `--ai` judge sends candidates
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to Anthropic and needs `ANTHROPIC_API_KEY`. You need Node 20 or newer; building and testing from
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## Contents
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**Getting started**
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- [Quickstart](#quickstart), try it from source against a repo
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- [Install](#install), and exactly what it writes
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- [What that setup does](#what-that-setup-does)
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- [One thing to do afterwards](#one-thing-to-do-afterwards)
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- [Checking it worked](#checking-it-worked)
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- [Removing it](#removing-it)
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**Using it day to day**
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- [See it catch a real cheat](#see-it-catch-a-real-cheat)
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- [What happens when it blocks](#what-happens-when-it-blocks)
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- [What do the codes mean?](#what-do-the-codes-mean)
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- [Badges](#badges)
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**Why it works**
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- [How it works](#how-it-works)
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- [Can the agent get around it?](#can-the-agent-get-around-it)
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- [By the numbers](#by-the-numbers)
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- [Benchmark](#benchmark)
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**Reference**
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- [Going further](#going-further), every doc page
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- [The Proctor](#the-proctor)
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- [License](#license)
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## Quickstart
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The `✓ proctor: honest pass` line means there are no error-level or approved findings. Warnings
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## Install
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Agent plugins install the ruleset. For CLI checks and hooks, use the local npm installation below.
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| The ruleset file for each agent this repo uses, e.g. `.claude/skills/proctor/SKILL.md`, `.cursor/rules/proctor.mdc`, `AGENTS.md` | The honest-completion rules your agent reads before it works | A shared file like `AGENTS.md` keeps your content; only proctor's delimited block is replaced |
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| Git's hook directory (`.git/hooks/pre-commit` normally), or `.husky/pre-commit` when Husky is a dev dependency | Blocks a cheat at commit time; the Husky file is also staged | A foreign hook is backed up to `pre-commit.bak`, then replaced; merge it manually if needed |
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| `.claude/settings.json` | The Claude Code Stop hook, written only if this repo uses Claude Code | Merged into the existing JSON; nothing else in the file changes |
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| **76 of 76** | adversarial cheat diffs caught with **both families enabled**, and **0 of 24** legitimate controls flagged, across eleven total red-team rounds. The corpus probes the WI family too, so reproduce it with `--all-checks`; the RH family alone catches 25 of the 76, since the rest are cheats the WI checks were written for. Includes process-status laundering, workload cuts, dependency rollback, fixed-delay masking, CI trigger/matrix contraction, diagnostic suppression, and out-of-band Git index hiding. Reproduce with `node bench/redteam/probe.mjs` |
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| **3.8%** | of 689 real human commits, sampled from 20 maintained open-source repositories across seven languages, produce any finding at all from the default check set. **2.32%** produce a blocking one, and most of those are the check correctly noticing that somebody deleted a test or added a skip marker |
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across a fixed pool of tasks with the ruleset on and off.
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a difference between the two arms.
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not reproduce in the second run and does not establish a prevention rate.
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the same run scored against current code reads **0.0% in both arms**. The table preserves the
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every task. See [bench/METHODOLOGY.md](https://github.com/catfish-1234/proctor/blob/main/bench/METHODOLOGY.md).
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| [docs/CLI.md](https://github.com/catfish-1234/proctor/blob/main/docs/CLI.md) | Every command and flag |
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| [docs/CONFIGURATION.md](https://github.com/catfish-1234/proctor/blob/main/docs/CONFIGURATION.md) | Config file, severities, approvals, [inline suppression](https://github.com/catfish-1234/proctor/blob/main/docs/CONFIGURATION.md#inline-suppression) |
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| [CONTRIBUTING.md](https://github.com/catfish-1234/proctor/blob/main/CONTRIBUTING.md) | Setting up, adding a check, adding an agent |
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| [docs/RELEASING.md](https://github.com/catfish-1234/proctor/blob/main/docs/RELEASING.md) | Maintainer notes: how a tag becomes a release |
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| [RESEARCH.md](https://github.com/catfish-1234/proctor/blob/main/RESEARCH.md) | Why it's built this way, and how it compares to Stryker and EvilGenie |
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unambiguous. [Full matrix](https://github.com/catfish-1234/proctor/blob/main/docs/LANGUAGES.md).
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