# cc-safety-net

Investigate blocked commands, check suspected false positives, and manage cc-safety-net rules with this skill. Use it when an agent’s protection stops a command or needs troubleshooting.

- skill · `type=skill` · Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, Gemini CLI, OpenCode · ★ 1798
- Author: kenryu42
- License: MIT · policy=mirror · the beginning of the file is at the end of this page
- Source: https://github.com/kenryu42/cc-safety-net/tree/HEAD/skills/cc-safety-net/SKILL.md
- Updated: 2026-10-24
- HTML: https://affpapa.org/en/nevibecode/skills/cc-safety-net

## What it does

The skill uses the `npx -y cc-safety-net` CLI to explain a block, inspect logs, and identify the rule behind a decision. It can also guide changes to custom rules and policy settings, including safety levels, feature switches, and path lists. The skill covers managing integrations with agent CLIs.

Rules can apply to a user, a project, or a shared repository rulebook. Project policy layers over user policy, while built-in guards remain active: custom rules can add restrictions but cannot bypass them. Set a session’s safety level with `CC_SAFETY_NET_LEVEL` to `standard`, `strict`, or `paranoid`. Configuration changes affect rules or installed integrations, so inspect the current setup before editing.

## Install

### Claude Code (native platform)

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add kenryu42/cc-safety-net --skill cc-safety-net -a claude-code
```

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

### Codex

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add kenryu42/cc-safety-net --skill cc-safety-net -a codex
```

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

### Cursor

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add kenryu42/cc-safety-net --skill cc-safety-net -a cursor
```

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

### GitHub Copilot

1. **GitHub CLI**
```bash
gh skill install kenryu42/cc-safety-net cc-safety-net
```

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

### Gemini CLI

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add kenryu42/cc-safety-net --skill cc-safety-net -a gemini-cli
```

2. **Platform CLI**
```bash
gemini skills install https://github.com/kenryu42/cc-safety-net --path skills/cc-safety-net
```

### Windsurf (Devin Desktop)

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

### OpenCode

**Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add kenryu42/cc-safety-net --skill cc-safety-net -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/kenryu42/cc-safety-net/tree/HEAD/skills/cc-safety-net/SKILL.md

## When to use it
- find out why a command was blocked
- identify the rule behind a suspected false positive
- add or revise a project rulebook
- adjust session safety and path lists
- check whether protection and agent integrations work

## Example prompts
- Explain why `git reset --hard` was blocked.
- Check recent suspected denials and identify the rule that fired.
- Add a project rule that blocks file deletion from the migrations directory.

## Source text · SKILL.md · MIT

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# CC Safety Net

CC Safety Net hooks into coding agent CLIs (Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, Gemini CLI, and others)
and blocks destructive commands and secret access before they run. The `cc-safety-net` CLI
inspects and controls that protection. Run it as `npx -y cc-safety-net`.

## Learn the current CLI

The installed CLI is the authority for command syntax. Do not guess flags.

```bash
npx -y cc-safety-net --help
npx -y cc-safety-net help <command>
```

Run `npx -y cc-safety-net rule doc` and treat that output as the complete source of truth for
rulebook schema, paths, GitHub sources, matching behavior, and validation.

These commands are read-only and safe to run for discovery: `--help`, `--version`, `status`,
`doctor`, `logs` (without `--prune-legacy`), `explain`, `rule list`, `rule verify`, `rule doc`,
`policy check`, `help`. Every other command mutates configuration or installed integrations; run
those only as part of a workflow below.

## Core model

- Built-in guards always apply. Custom rules only add restrictions; nothing in rule config can
  bypass built-in CC Safety Net protections.
- Config files (`rule.json`) list rulebook sources. Rule definitions live in `rulebook.json`,
  not directly in `rule.json`.
- Three scopes: user (all projects), project (current project only), and shareable GitHub
  rulebooks at `.cc-safety-net/rules/<rulebook-name>/rulebook.json` in a repository.
- Rulebooks are live files. The runtime reads each `rulebook.json` on every tool call, so a saved
  edit applies to the next command with no sync step.
- `policy.json` sets the safety level, per-feature toggles, per-rule overrides, and path lists. It
  has two scopes: the project file `.cc-safety-net/policy.json`, committed and shared with the
  team, layered on the user file that applies to every project.
- The session safety level is `standard`, `strict`, or `paranoid`, set per session with the
  `CC_SAFETY_NET_LEVEL` environment variable.

## Choose the workflow

- The user asks why a command was blocked, or shows a `BLOCKED by CC Safety Net` message:
  explain a decision.
- The user thinks a block was wrong: triage a false positive.
- The user wants to add, edit, disable, or migrate blocking rules: configure rules.
- The user wants to change the safety level, toggle a protection, or adjust path lists: configure
  the policy.
- The user wants CC Safety Net installed into or removed from an agent CLI: manage integrations.
- A rule does not fire, or the user asks whether protection is working: diagnose.
- The user asks how or why the analyzer behaves a certain way, beyond what `explain` and
  `rule doc` show: answer from the source.

## Explain a decision

1. Get the exact blocked command. If the user does not have it, find it with
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