# arcjet

Adds Arcjet protection to HTTP routes, AI tool calls, MCP servers, and background jobs. Useful for rate limiting, bot detection, and abuse prevention.

- skill · `type=skill` · Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, Gemini CLI, OpenCode · 578 installs · ★ 4
- Author: arcjet
- License: Apache-2.0 · policy=mirror · the beginning of the file is at the end of this page
- Source: https://github.com/arcjet/skills/tree/HEAD/arcjet/SKILL.md
- Updated: 2026-10-07
- HTML: https://affpapa.org/en/nevibecode/skills/arcjet

## What it does

This skill helps add Arcjet to HTTP routes, AI agent tool calls, MCP servers, background jobs, and queue workers. It covers rate limiting, bot detection, email validation, prompt injection blocking, sensitive information filtering, content moderation, remote Guard policies, and typed inputs.

The workflow has five steps: check the project language, obtain an `ARCJET_KEY`, choose the protection type, install the matching SDK, and verify that decisions fire. Request-based protection uses HTTP framework adapters. Guard protection covers calls without an HTTP request. Supported languages are JavaScript/TypeScript, Python, and Go.

Check the server-side language first: a project outside JavaScript, TypeScript, Python, or Go stops here without changes. A real `ARCJET_KEY` must be present in the project env file before Arcjet code is written, and the key must stay out of source files.

## Install

### Claude Code (native platform)

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add arcjet/skills --skill arcjet -a claude-code
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `~/.claude/skills/arcjet/SKILL.md` — Copy the whole skill folder; for one project use .claude/skills/arcjet/

### Codex

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add arcjet/skills --skill arcjet -a codex
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.agents/skills/arcjet/SKILL.md` — For all projects use ~/.agents/skills/

### Cursor

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add arcjet/skills --skill arcjet -a cursor
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.cursor/skills/arcjet/SKILL.md` — Cursor also reads .agents/skills/ and .claude/skills/

### GitHub Copilot

1. **GitHub CLI**
```bash
gh skill install arcjet/skills arcjet
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.github/skills/arcjet/SKILL.md`

### Gemini CLI

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add arcjet/skills --skill arcjet -a gemini-cli
```

2. **Platform CLI**
```bash
gemini skills install https://github.com/arcjet/skills --path arcjet
```

### Windsurf (Devin Desktop)

**Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.devin/skills/arcjet/SKILL.md` — The legacy .windsurf/skills/ path still works

### OpenCode

**Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add arcjet/skills --skill arcjet -a opencode
```

### Claude.ai

**Claude.ai**
- Zip the folder and upload it in Settings → Capabilities → Skills

Where a file is given instead of a command, copy the files from the source to that path: https://github.com/arcjet/skills/tree/HEAD/arcjet/SKILL.md

## When to use it
- protect API routes with Arcjet rules
- limit the rate of AI tool calls
- block bots and prompt injection
- validate email before handling a request
- protect background jobs and queue workers

## Example prompts
- Add Arcjet to this HTTP route and configure rate limiting for incoming requests.
- Protect these AI tool calls from prompt injection and sensitive information.
- Connect Arcjet to this MCP server and verify that the protection decisions fire.

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---
name: arcjet
license: Apache-2.0
description: Add Arcjet security protection to HTTP routes, AI agent tool calls, MCP servers, background jobs, and queue workers. Covers rate limiting, bot detection, email validation, prompt injection, sensitive information blocking (including Rampart NER), content moderation, capture/flush, remote Guard policies, typed inputs, and abuse prevention. Works in JavaScript/TypeScript, Python, and Go. HTTP frameworks share this skill. JS Guard adapters that ship on npm are per-adapter reference files loaded from Step 3 — do not keep the whole JS Guard reference in context. Official Python adapters (including Google ADK) have dedicated integrate-arcjet-guard skills, as do JS Cloudflare Think and Microsoft Agent Framework for Go. Use when the user wants security, rate limiting, bot protection, or abuse prevention – "protect my API," "rate limit tool calls," "block bots," "secure my endpoint," or "prevent abuse" – even without naming Arcjet.
metadata:
  author: arcjet
---

# Arcjet

## Contents

- [Add Arcjet protection to your app](#add-arcjet-protection-to-your-app)
- [Choose protections](#choose-protections)
- [Resources](#resources)

Python Guard adapters for LangChain, CrewAI, OpenAI Agents, Claude Agent SDK, Claude Managed Agents, Strands Agents, and Google ADK are dedicated skills (see Step 3). JS Guard adapters that ship on npm are per-file references under `references/guards_js_*.md`. JS Cloudflare Think is a dedicated skill (published `@arcjet/guard` plus peer `@cloudflare/think`). Shared fundamentals stay in [references/guards_javascript.md](references/guards_javascript.md) and [references/guards_python.md](references/guards_python.md).

## Add Arcjet protection to your app

### Checklist

- [ ] **Step 1:** Verify language support (JS/TS, Python, or Go only – stop if unsupported)
- [ ] **Step 2:** Connect to Arcjet platform (CLI → MCP → manual Console setup)
- [ ] **Step 3:** Detect protection type and read the appropriate reference file
- [ ] **Step 4:** Implement protection (separate client file, correct SDK, correct patterns)
- [ ] **Step 5:** Verify decisions are firing correctly (trigger a real call, then check CLI / MCP / Console)

### Step 1: Check language support

If the project's server-side code is not JavaScript, TypeScript, Python, or Go → tell the user in chat that Arcjet doesn't support their language yet. Don't modify the project, don't write a `NOTES.md`, don't invent a package. Just say it and stop.

### Step 2: Get an `ARCJET_KEY` into the project's env file

Before writing any code, the project needs a real `ARCJET_KEY` in its env file. Don't write Arcjet code first and "leave the key as a TODO" – that just produces dead code. Get the key first, then wire it up.

**Agent identity (when you need to register yourself, not a human browser login):** follow https://arcjet.com/auth.md exactly. Do not invent registration, claim, or token-exchange flows, and do not print secrets.

**In order of preference:**

1. **Arcjet CLI** (preferred). Check whether you're already signed in, then retrieve a key.
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