Mohamed Hegazy a40c9f1e83
security-guidance: move core.quotePath=false to GIT_CMD globally (#2099 followup)
Followup to PR #2086 (which added the flag to 4 specific git call
sites) and PR #2100 (text=True purge for #2099).

The Windows reporter for #2099 noticed more git invocations still
lacked the flag — rev-parse path queries (--show-toplevel, --git-dir,
--git-common-dir), reflog %gs subjects, and `git show <sha>:<path>`
all output paths but the per-site PR #2086 approach missed them. The
result: an Arabic-named directory shows up via _git_diff_range but
rev-parse-emitted paths get C-quoted, breaking downstream
os.path.isabs() checks.

Fix: add `-c core.quotePath=false` to GIT_CMD itself as the 4th
config-set. Every subprocess.run using the *GIT_CMD splat picks it
up automatically — diff feeders, rev-parse path queries, reflog log,
ls-files, status, git show. No more per-site flag duplication.

This commit:

1. gitutil.py: add -c core.quotePath=false to GIT_CMD.
2. Remove the now-redundant per-site flags at the 7 call sites that
   previously had inline -c core.quotePath=false (cleanup, since the
   global setting subsumes them):
   gitutil.py: _git_diff_range, _git_name_only, _git_status_porcelain,
               get_git_diff (4 sites)
   diffstate.py: _list_untracked git ls-files (1 site)
   security_reminder_hook.py: commit-review git diff + git show (2 sites)

Verified locally on latest main (post PR #2100 merge) with macOS
Python 3.13:

  - py_compile clean on all 3 modified files.
  - Bare main BEFORE my fix: 400/401 pass — 1 failure proves the gap
    (test_git_cmd_contains_quotepath_false catches the missing flag).
  - Main + my fix: 401/401 pass.
  - 23 new tests in test_quotepath_global.py (added to internal test
    suite at sg-staging/tests/, not in this PR):

      * 1 GIT_CMD-level: GIT_CMD list contains core.quotePath=false as
        a (-c, value) pair. Single source of truth — single place a
        future PR will be caught if the flag gets dropped.
      * 10 static-shape (one per hooks/*.py): every subprocess.run
        uses the *GIT_CMD splat (no bare git invocation that would
        bypass the global flag).
      * 12 end-to-end (parametrized over Arabic, Hebrew, CJK directory
        names): real git repo, _git_diff_range emits unquoted diff,
        extract_file_paths_from_diff and parse_diff_into_files keep
        the non-ASCII path in their output, _git_toplevel returns the
        non-ASCII path intact.

  - 1 staleness fix in test_diff_parser_non_ascii.py
    (test_no_bare_git_diff_or_show_without_flag): updated to accept
    EITHER inline core.quotePath=false OR *GIT_CMD splat (which
    globally provides it).

NOT verified end-to-end on Windows with a non-ASCII repo root path.
The new global-flag test pins the contract permanently, and the
parametrized macOS tests confirm parser behavior on ASCII-control
paths in non-ASCII directories. The Windows-specific rev-parse
quoting behavior follows from the same git contract our macOS test
environment exercises (POSIX git always emits raw UTF-8 regardless
of quotePath; on Windows the flag is what makes output raw).

Closes the #2099 followup specifically about _git_diff_range /
rev-parse --show-toplevel / git log %gs paths slipping past.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-05-30 12:19:38 -07:00
..
2026-05-26 14:06:52 -07:00

security-guidance

Security review for Claude-generated code. Three layers:

  1. Pattern warnings — instant regex-based reminders on Edit/Write for ~25 known-dangerous patterns (yaml.load, torch.load(weights_only=False), pickle.load on untrusted data, raw innerHTML, hardcoded secrets, etc.).
  2. LLM diff review — when Claude finishes a turn, the plugin sends the diff to a fast LLM call (Opus 4.7 by default) and feeds high-severity findings back to Claude so it can fix them before you see the response.
  3. Agentic commit review — on git commit, an SDK-driven reviewer reads related files (Read/Grep/Glob) to trace data flow across the codebase, catching multi-file vulnerabilities pattern matching misses (IDOR, auth bypass, cross-file SSRF).

Findings cover common web-vulnerability classes — injection, XSS, SSRF, hardcoded secrets, IDOR, auth bypass, unsafe deserialization, and path traversal among others.

Install

/plugin install security-guidance@claude-plugins-official

Marketplace ships enabled by default in Claude Code — no setup beyond having the CLI itself.

Prerequisites

  • Claude Code CLI ≥ v2.1.144
  • Python 3.8+ on PATH (python3, python, or py -3 — the plugin picks the first that works)
  • A working API path (subscription, API key, or 3P provider config)

Configuration

All configuration is via environment variables. None are required for default behavior.

Selecting a model

# 1P / gateway: a canonical model id
SECURITY_REVIEW_MODEL=claude-opus-4-7   # default

# Bedrock: use the inference-profile id
SECURITY_REVIEW_MODEL=us.anthropic.claude-opus-4-7

# Vertex: use the Vertex date-tag form
SECURITY_REVIEW_MODEL=claude-opus-4-7@20260218

SECURITY_REVIEW_MODEL controls the LLM diff review. SG_AGENTIC_MODEL (same syntax) controls the agentic commit reviewer; defaults to the same model.

Enabling/disabling layers

Variable Default What it does
SECURITY_GUIDANCE_DISABLE=1 unset Kill switch — disables the entire plugin
ENABLE_PATTERN_RULES=0 on Disable layer 1 (regex pattern warnings)
ENABLE_CODE_SECURITY_REVIEW=0 on Disable all LLM reviews (Stop hook + commit/push)
ENABLE_STOP_REVIEW=0 on Disable only the Stop-hook diff review, keeping commit/push reviews. Useful for multi-agent / shared-worktree setups where another agent can move HEAD between a worker's turns
ENABLE_COMMIT_REVIEW=0 on Disable layer 3 (agentic commit review)

Higher-recall mode

SG_DUAL_OR=on   # default off

Runs two parallel review calls and unions the findings. Catches a few percentage points more vulnerabilities in our testing, at roughly 2× the API cost per review. Most users don't need it.

Org-specific policies

Drop a claude-security-guidance.md in any of:

  • ~/.claude/claude-security-guidance.md — user-wide rules
  • <project>/.claude/claude-security-guidance.md — project rules, intended to be committed
  • <project>/.claude/claude-security-guidance.local.md — local overrides, intended to be .gitignore'd

All three are loaded and concatenated into the LLM diff review's prompt in the order user → project → project-local. If the combined size exceeds the 8 KB prompt budget, the tail is truncated, so user-wide rules are kept and project-local rules are dropped first. The agentic commit reviewer (layer 3) does not currently read this file. Example:

# Acme security rules

- All SELECTs against the `customers` or `orders` tables MUST go through `db.replica`,
  never `db.primary`. Primary is for writes only.
- Background jobs must not use the user-context auth token; they get
  service-account creds from `jobs.get_service_account()`.
- Calls to `requests.get(url)` with a user-controlled `url` need
  the SSRF-allowlist wrapper at `acme.net.safe_request`.

Built-in rules cover common web-vulnerability classes without it — claude-security-guidance.md is for things specific to your codebase that the model can't infer.

Privacy and data handling

The plugin sends data to a model endpoint to perform its reviews. Specifically, each Stop-hook diff review transmits the changed file paths, the diff hunks, and the relevant file contents in the diff; each agentic commit review additionally transmits any files the reviewer pulls in via Read/Grep/Glob while tracing data flow. Your claude-security-guidance.md contents (user, project, and local) are appended to the prompt on every review, so don't put secrets in it.

Where that data goes depends on your Claude Code configuration:

  • Default (Anthropic API / subscription): sent to api.anthropic.com and handled under Anthropic's Commercial Terms and Privacy Policy.
  • LLM gateway (ANTHROPIC_BASE_URL set): sent to your gateway URL instead. The gateway operator's terms apply.
  • 3rd-party providers (Bedrock / Vertex / Foundry / Mantle): sent to your configured provider endpoint. The provider's data-handling terms apply (e.g., AWS / GCP / Azure).

The plugin writes its own debug log to ~/.claude/security/log.txt (override with SECURITY_GUIDANCE_DEBUG_LOG). The log contains diffstate metadata and finding categories — no full file contents or model prompts — and rotates at 1 MB. Nothing is uploaded.

Limitations

This is a best-effort assistive tool, not a guarantee. Treat findings as suggestions, not as a substitute for human code review, SAST/DAST, dependency scanning, or pen-testing. The reviewer can miss vulnerabilities, produce false positives, and may behave differently across codebases, languages, and model versions. No warranty is provided — use is subject to Anthropic's Commercial Terms.

Troubleshooting

Plugin doesn't seem to fire — check that ~/.claude/claude-security-guidance.md (or hook activity) shows in debug logs. Run Claude Code with --debug-file /tmp/claude/debug.txt and grep for security_reminder_hook. The plugin also writes its own log to ~/.claude/security/log.txt.

Review never finds anything — verify your API path works. On 3P providers, check SECURITY_REVIEW_MODEL is set to a provider-specific id (not a bare claude-opus-4-7). On LLM gateways, check the gateway's logs for POST /v1/messages traffic from the plugin.

Too many false positives — drop SECURITY_REVIEW_MODEL to a cheaper model (claude-sonnet-4-6) and re-evaluate; if precision is the priority, stay on Opus 4.7.

Want to silence a specific finding — add a comment to the line explaining why it's safe; the LLM reviewer treats inline justifications as exclusions. For systemic exclusions, document them in your claude-security-guidance.md.

Reporting issues

Open an issue on the security-guidance plugin repo with:

  • The Claude Code CLI version (claude --version)
  • Provider setup (1P / Bedrock / Vertex / LLM gateway / etc.)
  • A minimal repro diff
  • The relevant section of ~/.claude/security/log.txt