ai-install-guard 0.0.0-stage → 0.0.0

package/.claude-plugin/marketplace.json

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+{
+  "name": "ai-install-guard",
+  "description": "A pre-install security gate for Claude Code.",
+  "owner": {
+    "name": "Boaz Ziniman",
+    "email": "ziniman@gmail.com",
+    "url": "https://github.com/ziniman"
+  },
+  "plugins": [
+    {
+      "name": "ai-install-guard",
+      "source": "./",
+      "version": "0.0.0",
+      "description": "Scans plugins, mods, skills and MCP servers without running them, shows a PASS / WARN / FAIL verdict, and installs nothing until you approve.",
+      "category": "security",
+      "keywords": [
+        "security",
+        "supply-chain",
+        "static-analysis"
+      ]
+    }
+  ]
+}

package/.claude-plugin/plugin.json

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+{
+  "name": "ai-install-guard",
+  "version": "0.0.0",
+  "description": "A pre-install security gate for Claude Code: scans plugins, mods, skills and MCP servers without running them, and installs nothing until you approve.",
+  "author": {
+    "name": "Boaz Ziniman",
+    "email": "ziniman@gmail.com",
+    "url": "https://github.com/ziniman"
+  },
+  "homepage": "https://github.com/ziniman/ai-install-guard",
+  "repository": "https://github.com/ziniman/ai-install-guard",
+  "license": "Apache-2.0",
+  "keywords": [
+    "security",
+    "supply-chain",
+    "static-analysis",
+    "plugins",
+    "skills",
+    "mcp",
+    "mods"
+  ]
+}

package/CHANGELOG.md

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+# Changelog
+
+All notable changes to ai-install-guard. Ordered newest to oldest.
+
+---
+
+## Unreleased
+
+**`/guard scan`** - Lists every file of a local folder, reads and hashes each one, records symbolic links with where they land without following them, and prints a SHA-256 tree hash that pins the exact content
+
+**`release`** - Versioning, npm publishing and GitHub releases run from CI when a version bump is merged, as in ai-instruct
+
+---

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package/README.md

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-# Temporary Holding Version
+<div align="center">
 
-This version is a temporary placeholder for this package. An operational version to replace this has been submitted for review and is awaiting a staged release.
+# AI Install Guard
+
+**A security gate for Claude Code. Nothing new gets installed until you have seen what it can do.**
+
+[![npm version](https://img.shields.io/npm/v/ai-install-guard?style=for-the-badge&logo=npm&logoColor=white&color=CB3837)](https://www.npmjs.com/package/ai-install-guard)
+[![npm downloads](https://img.shields.io/npm/dm/ai-install-guard?style=for-the-badge&logo=npm&logoColor=white&color=CB3837)](https://www.npmjs.com/package/ai-install-guard)
+[![GitHub stars](https://img.shields.io/github/stars/ziniman/ai-install-guard?style=for-the-badge&logo=github&logoColor=white&color=181717)](https://github.com/ziniman/ai-install-guard/stargazers)
+[![license](https://img.shields.io/badge/license-Apache%202.0-blue?style=for-the-badge)](https://github.com/ziniman/ai-install-guard/blob/main/LICENSE)
+[![last commit](https://img.shields.io/github/last-commit/ziniman/ai-install-guard?style=for-the-badge&logo=github&logoColor=white&color=181717)](https://github.com/ziniman/ai-install-guard/commits/main)
+
+```
+/plugin install ai-install-guard --marketplace ziniman/ai-install-guard
+```
+
+</div>
+
+> **Status: early development.** Today the guard can list and hash a local folder with `/guard scan <path>`. The checks, the verdict pane and the install gates below are being built in stages; see [Roadmap](#roadmap).
+
+Everything you add to Claude Code runs with your permissions. A plugin can ship shell hooks that run every session, an MCP server can download and launch a package, a mod can read files or auto-approve tools, and a skill can carry hidden instructions the model will follow. The install prompt asks you to trust the author, and an update can change the files after you looked.
+
+AI Install Guard is a Claude Code mod that stops every new plugin, mod, skill, MCP server or marketplace, and every update to one, scans it without running any of its code, and installs nothing until you approve it.
+
+## How it works
+
+1. **Fetch without running.** The candidate is fetched at an exact commit into a folder the guard owns. Nothing is installed, built or run.
+2. **Check every file.** Deterministic checks read the hooks, MCP servers, mod code, skills, scripts, images and manifest.
+3. **Show a verdict.** A pane shows **Safe to install**, **Install with caution**, **Do not install** or **Could not verify**, a PASS / WARN / FAIL list with file and line evidence, and two buttons: **Install** and **Reject**.
+4. **Install only what was scanned.** Install is pinned to the scanned commit and content hash. If the source changed since the scan, it is scanned again first.
+
+Approvals are remembered by commit and content hash, so the same version is never scanned twice, and an update is reviewed as a diff: anything new since the version you approved is listed and flagged. An optional model review can add warnings but can never clear a failure, so a README that says "this plugin is safe" changes nothing.
+
+## Where it steps in
+
+| Layer | Catches | What happens |
+|-------|---------|--------------|
+| Slash command | `/plugin install`, `/plugin update`, `/plugin marketplace add` | Held until you press Install |
+| Claude's own tool calls | `claude plugin install`, `claude mcp add`, copies into skills folders, edits to `.mcp.json` or settings, `npx -y`, `curl \| sh` | Denied, with a note to the model that a scan is pending |
+| Mod loading | Any mod about to load, however it got there | Refused if its files do not match what you approved |
+| First use of a skill | Skills and commands, including ones copied in by hand | Blocked until scanned |
+| Session start | Anything installed while the guard was not running | Scanned, with Keep or Uninstall |
+
+## What it checks
+
+| Threat | What gets flagged |
+|--------|-------------------|
+| Code execution | Shell hooks, MCP servers that launch binaries or unpinned `npx` / `uvx` packages, mods that run processes |
+| Data theft | Reads of `~/.ssh`, `~/.aws`, `.env`, keychains or secret env vars, combined with network calls |
+| Prompt injection | Hidden instructions in skills, commands, agents and tool descriptions, including invisible Unicode |
+| Permission escalation | Mods that auto-approve tools, writes to Claude settings or permissions, skills granting broad `Bash` |
+| Persistence | Writes to shell rc files, crontab, launchd, systemd, git hooks |
+| Supply chain | Marketplaces on a moving branch, brand-new repos, look-alike names, committed secrets, binaries, data hidden after the end of images |
+| Sneaky updates | An update that adds capabilities, hooks, domains or servers without saying so |
+
+## Commands
+
+| Command | What it does |
+|---------|--------------|
+| `/guard scan <path>` | Scan a local folder without installing it |
+
+## What it is not
+
+- **Not a proof of safety.** Static analysis raises the bar and makes every capability visible; a determined attacker can still evade it.
+- **Install it first.** It judges only mods that load after it. For a company, the strongest setup is deploying it through managed settings so it loads first.
+- **No per-plugin block for classic shell hooks.** Claude Code runs them outside mods, so the guard scans before install and uninstalls on reject.
+
+## Roadmap
+
+1. [x] Skeleton mod: `/guard scan <path>` lists and hashes a local folder
+2. [ ] Checks for structure, mod capabilities, classic hooks, skills, code patterns and committed secrets
+3. [ ] The verdict pane with Install and Reject
+4. [ ] Remote fetch pinned to a commit, provenance checks, MCP server checks
+5. [ ] Gates on `/plugin` and on Claude's own install commands, with approvals
+6. [ ] Module load gate with hash match, skill gate, session-start reconciliation
+7. [ ] Update diffs and the optional model review
+8. [ ] Full documentation
+
+## Contributing
+
+Issues and pull requests are welcome. See [.claude/CLAUDE.md](./.claude/CLAUDE.md) for how the repo is laid out, how to run the checks, and how releases work.
+
+## License
+
+Apache 2.0 - see [LICENSE](./LICENSE). Free to use, modify, and redistribute.

package/hooks/hooks.json

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+{ "modules": ["./register.tsx"] }

package/hooks/mod-host.ts

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+import type { EngineInterface } from 'claude-code'
+
+import { fromBase64, type Host } from './scan/host'
+
+// Windows PowerShell 5.1 answers a link's Target as an array; -join makes it one string.
+const WINDOWS_READLINK = "[Console]::Out.Write(((Get-Item -LiteralPath $env:GUARD_LINK -Force).Target -join ''))"
+
+/** The scanner's host inside Claude Code: `$.fs` reads, `$.process` runs. */
+export function modHost($: EngineInterface): Host {
+  return {
+    list: path => $.fs.list(path),
+    stat: (path, options) => $.fs.stat(path, options ?? { resolve: false }),
+    readBytes: async path => fromBase64((await $.fs.read(path, { as: 'bytes' })).base64),
+    readLink: async path => {
+      const posix = await $.process.run(['readlink', path]).catch(() => undefined)
+      if (posix !== undefined && posix.exitCode === 0) {
+        return posix.stdout.endsWith('\n') ? posix.stdout.slice(0, -1) : posix.stdout
+      }
+      // Windows has no readlink. The path travels in the environment, never
+      // in the command text, so no name can change what PowerShell runs.
+      const windows = await $.process
+        .run(['powershell', '-NoProfile', '-NonInteractive', '-Command', WINDOWS_READLINK], { env: { GUARD_LINK: path } })
+        .catch(() => undefined)
+      if (windows !== undefined && windows.exitCode === 0 && windows.stdout.trim() !== '') {
+        return windows.stdout.replace(/\r?\n$/, '')
+      }
+      throw new Error(`could not read the link ${path}`)
+    },
+    run: (argv, options) => $.process.run(argv, options),
+  }
+}

package/hooks/register.tsx

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+import type { Register } from 'claude-code'
+
+import { modHost } from './mod-host'
+import type { Host } from './scan/host'
+import { takeInventory } from './scan/inventory'
+import { formatInventory } from './scan/report'
+import { safeLine } from './scan/safe-text'
+
+const USAGE = [
+  'Usage:',
+  '  /guard scan <path>   Scan a local plugin, mod or skill folder without installing it',
+].join('\n')
+
+export const register: Register = on => {
+  on('session.start', async ($, e, next) => {
+    await $.command.register({
+      name: 'guard',
+      description: 'Scan a plugin, mod, skill or MCP server without installing it',
+      argumentHint: 'scan <path>',
+    })
+    return next(e)
+  })
+
+  on('command.run', { command: 'guard' }, async ($, e) => {
+    const { sub, rest } = splitArgs(e.args)
+    if (sub !== 'scan' || rest === '') {
+      return { text: USAGE }
+    }
+    const host = modHost($)
+    try {
+      const tree = await takeInventory(host, await expandHome(host, rest))
+      return { text: formatInventory(rest, tree.inventory) }
+    } catch (error) {
+      return { text: `Could not verify ${safeLine(rest)}: ${safeLine(reasonOf(error))}` }
+    }
+  }).catch(() => ({ text: 'AI Install Guard: the command failed before it could answer.' }))
+}
+
+/** `scan "my folder"` → `{ sub: 'scan', rest: 'my folder' }`. */
+export function splitArgs(args: string): { sub: string; rest: string } {
+  const trimmed = args.trim()
+  const space = trimmed.search(/\s/)
+  const sub = space === -1 ? trimmed : trimmed.slice(0, space)
+  const rest = space === -1 ? '' : trimmed.slice(space).trim()
+  const unquoted = /^(["']).*\1$/.test(rest) ? rest.slice(1, -1) : rest
+  return { sub: sub.toLowerCase(), rest: unquoted }
+}
+
+async function expandHome(host: Host, path: string): Promise<string> {
+  if (path !== '~' && !path.startsWith('~/')) {
+    return path
+  }
+  const { exitCode, stdout } = await host.run(['printenv', 'HOME'])
+  const home = stdout.trim()
+  if (exitCode !== 0 || home === '') {
+    throw new Error('could not find the home folder')
+  }
+  return home + path.slice(1)
+}
+
+function reasonOf(error: unknown): string {
+  return error instanceof Error ? error.message : String(error)
+}

package/hooks/scan/hash.ts

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+import type { InventoryEntry } from './inventory'
+
+const encoder = new TextEncoder()
+
+export async function sha256Hex(data: Uint8Array | string): Promise<string> {
+  const bytes = typeof data === 'string' ? encoder.encode(data) : data
+  const digest = await crypto.subtle.digest('SHA-256', bytes)
+  return [...new Uint8Array(digest)].map(b => b.toString(16).padStart(2, '0')).join('')
+}
+
+/**
+ * One record per entry, sorted by path, each ended by a NUL byte (which no
+ * path can hold, so two different trees never share a record list), then
+ * hashed:
+ *
+ *   file <sha256 of its bytes> <path>
+ *   link <sha256 of the target as stored in the link> <path>
+ *   dir - <path>
+ *   other - <path>
+ *
+ * A link counts by its stored target, not where it lands on this machine, so
+ * the same tree hashes the same everywhere. Changing this format changes every
+ * stored approval.
+ */
+export async function treeHash(entries: readonly InventoryEntry[]): Promise<string> {
+  const sorted = [...entries].sort((a, b) => (a.path < b.path ? -1 : a.path > b.path ? 1 : 0))
+  let records = ''
+  for (const entry of sorted) {
+    if (entry.kind === 'file') {
+      records += `file ${entry.sha256} ${entry.path}\0`
+    } else if (entry.kind === 'link') {
+      records += `link ${await sha256Hex(entry.target)} ${entry.path}\0`
+    } else {
+      records += `${entry.kind} - ${entry.path}\0`
+    }
+  }
+  return `sha256:${await sha256Hex(records)}`
+}

package/hooks/scan/host.ts

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+// The scanner's view of the machine. The scan code never touches `$` or Node
+// directly: the mod passes a host built on `$.fs` and `$.process`, and tests
+// pass one that answers from fixtures in memory.
+
+export type HostEntryKind = 'file' | 'dir' | 'other'
+
+export type HostEntry = {
+  name: string
+  kind: HostEntryKind
+  size: number
+  isLink: boolean
+}
+
+export type HostStat = {
+  kind: HostEntryKind
+  size: number
+  isLink: boolean
+  /** Where the path lands with every link followed; absent when it leads nowhere. */
+  realPath?: string
+}
+
+export type RunResult = {
+  exitCode: number
+  stdout: string
+  stderr: string
+}
+
+export type RunOptions = {
+  cwd?: string
+  timeoutMs?: number
+  /** Variables set over the host's own environment. */
+  env?: Record<string, string>
+}
+
+export type Host = {
+  list: (path: string) => Promise<HostEntry[]>
+  stat: (path: string, options?: { resolve: boolean }) => Promise<HostStat>
+  readBytes: (path: string) => Promise<Uint8Array>
+  /** The target text stored in a symbolic link, as `readlink` prints it. */
+  readLink: (path: string) => Promise<string>
+  run: (argv: readonly string[], options?: RunOptions) => Promise<RunResult>
+}
+
+export function fromBase64(base64: string): Uint8Array {
+  const binary = atob(base64)
+  const bytes = new Uint8Array(binary.length)
+  for (let i = 0; i < binary.length; i += 1) {
+    bytes[i] = binary.charCodeAt(i)
+  }
+  return bytes
+}

package/hooks/scan/inventory.ts

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+import { sha256Hex, treeHash } from './hash'
+import type { Host } from './host'
+
+/** Past these the scan stops and the verdict is "Could not verify". */
+export const LIMITS = {
+  maxEntries: 5000,
+  /** Each link costs a `readlink` process, so links have a lower ceiling. */
+  maxLinks: 500,
+  maxFileBytes: 4 * 1024 * 1024,
+  maxTotalBytes: 50 * 1024 * 1024,
+}
+
+const READ_CONCURRENCY = 8
+const TEXT_SNIFF_BYTES = 8000
+
+export type InventoryFile = {
+  kind: 'file'
+  path: string
+  size: number
+  sha256: string
+  isText: boolean
+}
+
+export type InventoryLink = {
+  kind: 'link'
+  path: string
+  /** The target as stored in the link (what `readlink` prints). */
+  target: string
+  /**
+   * Where it lands: relative to the root when inside it, absolute when
+   * outside, absent when it leads nowhere.
+   */
+  landsAt?: string
+  isInside: boolean
+}
+
+export type InventoryDir = {
+  kind: 'dir'
+  path: string
+}
+
+export type InventoryOther = {
+  kind: 'other'
+  path: string
+}
+
+export type InventoryEntry = InventoryFile | InventoryLink | InventoryDir | InventoryOther
+
+export type Inventory = {
+  /** The scanned folder, every link resolved. */
+  root: string
+  /** Sorted by path. */
+  entries: InventoryEntry[]
+  totalBytes: number
+  treeHash: string
+  /** Folders left out on purpose (the root's `.git`). */
+  skipped: string[]
+}
+
+export type ScannedTree = {
+  inventory: Inventory
+  /** Each file's bytes by path, for the checks. Never stored. */
+  contents: Map<string, Uint8Array>
+}
+
+export class ScanError extends Error {
+  constructor(message: string) {
+    super(message)
+    this.name = 'ScanError'
+  }
+}
+
+/**
+ * Lists every entry under `path` and reads and hashes every regular file.
+ * A symbolic link is recorded with its target and where it lands, and never
+ * followed, so a link to `~/.ssh` is reported, not read.
+ */
+export async function takeInventory(host: Host, path: string): Promise<ScannedTree> {
+  const rootStat = await host.stat(path, { resolve: true }).catch(() => undefined)
+  if (rootStat === undefined) {
+    throw new ScanError(`${path} does not exist`)
+  }
+  if (rootStat.kind !== 'dir' || rootStat.isLink) {
+    throw new ScanError(`${path} is not a folder`)
+  }
+  const root = normalize(rootStat.realPath ?? path)
+
+  const entries: InventoryEntry[] = []
+  const files: { path: string; size: number }[] = []
+  const links: string[] = []
+  const skipped: string[] = []
+  const queue: string[] = ['']
+
+  while (queue.length > 0) {
+    const dir = queue.shift() as string
+    const listed = await host.list(dir === '' ? root : `${root}/${dir}`)
+    for (const item of listed) {
+      const rel = dir === '' ? item.name : `${dir}/${item.name}`
+      if (item.isLink) {
+        links.push(rel)
+      } else if (item.kind === 'dir') {
+        if (dir === '' && item.name === '.git') {
+          skipped.push(rel)
+        } else {
+          entries.push({ kind: 'dir', path: rel })
+          queue.push(rel)
+        }
+      } else if (item.kind === 'file') {
+        files.push({ path: rel, size: item.size })
+      } else {
+        entries.push({ kind: 'other', path: rel })
+      }
+      if (entries.length + files.length + links.length > LIMITS.maxEntries) {
+        throw new ScanError(`more than ${LIMITS.maxEntries} files and folders`)
+      }
+    }
+  }
+
+  if (links.length > LIMITS.maxLinks) {
+    throw new ScanError(`more than ${LIMITS.maxLinks} symbolic links`)
+  }
+  checkSizes(files)
+  entries.push(...(await mapLimit(links, READ_CONCURRENCY, rel => describeLink(host, root, rel))))
+
+  const contents = new Map<string, Uint8Array>()
+  let readBytes = 0
+  const read = await mapLimit(files, READ_CONCURRENCY, async (file): Promise<InventoryFile> => {
+    const full = `${root}/${file.path}`
+    await assertPlainFile(host, full, file.path)
+    const bytes = await host.readBytes(full)
+    readBytes += bytes.length
+    checkSizes([{ path: file.path, size: bytes.length }], readBytes)
+    contents.set(file.path, bytes)
+    return {
+      kind: 'file',
+      path: file.path,
+      size: bytes.length,
+      sha256: await sha256Hex(bytes),
+      isText: looksLikeText(bytes),
+    }
+  })
+  entries.push(...read)
+  entries.sort((a, b) => (a.path < b.path ? -1 : a.path > b.path ? 1 : 0))
+
+  return {
+    inventory: {
+      root,
+      entries,
+      totalBytes: readBytes,
+      treeHash: await treeHash(entries),
+      skipped,
+    },
+    contents,
+  }
+}
+
+/** Throws when a file, or all of them together, is over its limit. */
+function checkSizes(files: readonly { path: string; size: number }[], total?: number): void {
+  const tooLarge = files.find(file => file.size > LIMITS.maxFileBytes)
+  if (tooLarge !== undefined) {
+    throw new ScanError(`${tooLarge.path} is ${formatBytes(tooLarge.size)}, over the ${formatBytes(LIMITS.maxFileBytes)} per-file limit`)
+  }
+  const sum = total ?? files.reduce((acc, file) => acc + file.size, 0)
+  if (sum > LIMITS.maxTotalBytes) {
+    throw new ScanError(`${formatBytes(sum)} of files, over the ${formatBytes(LIMITS.maxTotalBytes)} limit`)
+  }
+}
+
+/**
+ * Refuses to read a path that is no longer the plain file the listing saw:
+ * swapped for a link, or reached through one, it would be read where it lands.
+ */
+async function assertPlainFile(host: Host, full: string, rel: string): Promise<void> {
+  const stat = await host.stat(full, { resolve: true }).catch(() => undefined)
+  const real = stat?.realPath === undefined ? undefined : normalize(stat.realPath)
+  if (stat === undefined || stat.isLink || stat.kind !== 'file' || real !== normalize(full)) {
+    throw new ScanError(`${rel} changed while it was being scanned`)
+  }
+}
+
+async function describeLink(host: Host, root: string, rel: string): Promise<InventoryLink> {
+  const full = `${root}/${rel}`
+  const target = await host.readLink(full).catch(() => {
+    throw new ScanError(`could not read where the link ${rel} points`)
+  })
+  const stat = await host.stat(full, { resolve: true }).catch(() => undefined)
+  const real = stat?.realPath === undefined ? undefined : normalize(stat.realPath)
+  if (real === undefined) {
+    return { kind: 'link', path: rel, target, isInside: false }
+  }
+  if (real === root || real.startsWith(`${root}/`)) {
+    return { kind: 'link', path: rel, target, landsAt: real.slice(root.length + 1) || '.', isInside: true }
+  }
+  return { kind: 'link', path: rel, target, landsAt: real, isInside: false }
+}
+
+/**
+ * Drops trailing slashes. Backslashes become slashes only in a Windows path
+ * (`C:\...` or `\\server\...`): elsewhere a backslash is part of a name.
+ */
+function normalize(path: string): string {
+  const isWindows = /^[A-Za-z]:[\\/]/.test(path) || path.startsWith('\\\\')
+  const slashed = isWindows ? path.replace(/\\/g, '/') : path
+  return slashed.length > 1 ? slashed.replace(/\/+$/, '') : slashed
+}
+
+function looksLikeText(bytes: Uint8Array): boolean {
+  const end = Math.min(bytes.length, TEXT_SNIFF_BYTES)
+  for (let i = 0; i < end; i += 1) {
+    if (bytes[i] === 0) return false
+  }
+  return true
+}
+
+/** Runs `fn` over `items`, `limit` at a time; after the first failure no worker starts another item. */
+export async function mapLimit<T, R>(items: readonly T[], limit: number, fn: (item: T) => Promise<R>): Promise<R[]> {
+  const results: R[] = new Array(items.length)
+  let next = 0
+  let hasFailed = false
+  const workers = Array.from({ length: Math.min(limit, items.length) }, async () => {
+    while (!hasFailed && next < items.length) {
+      const index = next
+      next += 1
+      try {
+        results[index] = await fn(items[index] as T)
+      } catch (error) {
+        hasFailed = true
+        throw error
+      }
+    }
+  })
+  await Promise.all(workers)
+  return results
+}
+
+export function formatBytes(bytes: number): string {
+  if (bytes < 1024) return `${bytes} B`
+  if (bytes < 1024 * 1024) return `${(bytes / 1024).toFixed(1)} KB`
+  return `${(bytes / (1024 * 1024)).toFixed(1)} MB`
+}

package/hooks/scan/report.ts

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+import { formatBytes, type Inventory } from './inventory'
+import { safeLine } from './safe-text'
+
+const MAX_LISTED = 60
+
+/** The plain-text report `/guard scan` prints. */
+export function formatInventory(target: string, inventory: Inventory): string {
+  const files = inventory.entries.filter(entry => entry.kind === 'file')
+  const links = inventory.entries.filter(entry => entry.kind === 'link')
+  const others = inventory.entries.filter(entry => entry.kind === 'other')
+  const listed = inventory.entries.filter(entry => entry.kind !== 'dir')
+
+  const lines = [
+    `AI Install Guard: ${safeLine(target)}`,
+    `Folder: ${safeLine(inventory.root)}`,
+    `Files: ${files.length} (${formatBytes(inventory.totalBytes)}), links: ${links.length}, other: ${others.length}`,
+    `Tree hash: ${inventory.treeHash}`,
+  ]
+  if (inventory.skipped.length > 0) {
+    lines.push(`Not read: ${inventory.skipped.map(safeLine).join(', ')}`)
+  }
+  lines.push('')
+
+  for (const entry of listed.slice(0, MAX_LISTED)) {
+    const path = safeLine(entry.path)
+    if (entry.kind === 'file') {
+      lines.push(`  ${path}  ${formatBytes(entry.size)}${entry.isText ? '' : ', binary'}`)
+    } else if (entry.kind === 'link') {
+      const where = entry.landsAt === undefined ? 'leads nowhere' : entry.isInside ? '' : 'outside the folder'
+      lines.push(`  ${path}  link to ${safeLine(entry.target)}${where === '' ? '' : ` (${where})`}`)
+    } else {
+      lines.push(`  ${path}  not a regular file`)
+    }
+  }
+  if (listed.length > MAX_LISTED) {
+    lines.push(`  ... and ${listed.length - MAX_LISTED} more`)
+  }
+
+  lines.push('', 'No checks run yet: this build lists and hashes the files only.')
+  return lines.join('\n')
+}

package/hooks/scan/safe-text.ts

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+// Text taken from a candidate (file names, excerpts) is untrusted: it may
+// carry terminal escapes or invisible characters meant to hide what it says.
+// Everything a report shows from a candidate goes through `safeText` first.
+
+const HIDDEN = new RegExp(
+  [
+    '[\\u0000-\\u0008\\u000b-\\u001f\\u007f-\\u009f]', // control characters (escapes, NUL, C1)
+    '[\\u00ad\\u034f\\u061c\\u115f\\u1160\\u17b4\\u17b5\\u180b-\\u180f]', // invisible marks and fillers
+    '[\\u200b-\\u200f\\u2028-\\u202e\\u2060-\\u2069\\u3164\\ufeff\\uffa0\\ufff9-\\ufffb]', // zero-width, line and paragraph separators, bidi controls
+    '[\\ufe00-\\ufe0f]', // variation selectors
+    '[\\u{e0000}-\\u{e007f}]', // tag characters
+    '[\\u{e0100}-\\u{e01ef}]', // variation selectors supplement
+  ].join('|'),
+  'gu',
+)
+
+/** Shows each hidden or control character as `<U+XXXX>` so it can be seen. */
+export function safeText(text: string): string {
+  return text.replace(HIDDEN, char => {
+    const code = char.codePointAt(0) as number
+    return `<U+${code.toString(16).toUpperCase().padStart(4, '0')}>`
+  })
+}
+
+/** `safeText` for text that must stay on one line, such as a file name. */
+export function safeLine(text: string): string {
+  return safeText(text).replace(/\t/g, '<U+0009>').replace(/\n/g, '<U+000A>')
+}

package/package.json

@@ -1,6 +1,48 @@
 {
   "name": "ai-install-guard",
-  "version": "0.0.0-stage",
-  "stub": true,
-  "description": "Temporary package placeholder for staged publishing"
-}
+  "version": "0.0.0",
+  "description": "A pre-install security gate for Claude Code: scans plugins, mods, skills and MCP servers without running them, and installs nothing until you approve.",
+  "scripts": {
+    "build:fixtures": "node scripts/build-fixtures.js",
+    "sync:versions": "node scripts/sync-versions.js",
+    "validate": "claude plugin validate --strict .",
+    "typecheck": "tsc -p .",
+    "test": "claude plugin test .",
+    "check": "npm run validate && npm run typecheck && npm test",
+    "version": "node scripts/sync-versions.js && git add .claude-plugin/"
+  },
+  "keywords": [
+    "claude",
+    "claude-code",
+    "security",
+    "supply-chain",
+    "static-analysis",
+    "plugins",
+    "skills",
+    "mcp"
+  ],
+  "files": [
+    ".claude-plugin/plugin.json",
+    ".claude-plugin/marketplace.json",
+    "hooks/",
+    "!hooks/**/*.test.ts",
+    "!hooks/test-support/",
+    "README.md",
+    "CHANGELOG.md",
+    "LICENSE"
+  ],
+  "license": "Apache-2.0",
+  "author": "Boaz Ziniman <ziniman@gmail.com> (https://github.com/ziniman)",
+  "homepage": "https://github.com/ziniman/ai-install-guard",
+  "repository": {
+    "type": "git",
+    "url": "git+https://github.com/ziniman/ai-install-guard.git"
+  },
+  "bugs": "https://github.com/ziniman/ai-install-guard/issues",
+  "engines": {
+    "node": ">=18"
+  },
+  "devDependencies": {
+    "typescript": "^5.9.3"
+  }
+}