Mohamed Hegazy 5212308979
security-guidance: detect Graphite (gt) commands as commit/push events (#2048)
Fixes anthropics/claude-plugins-official#2048 — teams using Graphite
for stacked PRs (`gt create` / `gt modify` / `gt submit`) never get
the commit/push agentic review because the hook matcher only catches
literal `git commit` / `git push` Bash calls. gt shells out to git
as a subprocess, but the hook fires on Claude's top-level tool call,
which is `gt create` — not the `git commit` invocation inside the
gt subprocess that Claude Code never observes.

Per-edit pattern checks and end-of-turn Stop review still fire (those
don't depend on detecting the commit command), so the silent-coverage-
gap is bounded to the deepest review layer for Graphite users. Still:
that's exactly the layer designed to catch IDOR / auth-bypass /
cross-file SSRF, so the gap matters.

Semantic mapping (per the reporter):

  gt create  -> commit            (like `git commit`)
  gt modify  -> commit + amend    (like `git commit --amend`)
  gt submit  -> push              (like `git push`)

Changes:

1. hooks/hooks.json: extend two PostToolUse `if` matchers.

   "Bash(git commit:*)"
     -> "Bash(git commit:*)|Bash(gt create:*)|Bash(gt modify:*)"
   "Bash(git push:*)"
     -> "Bash(git push:*)|Bash(gt submit:*)"

   Without this, the hook subprocess never spawns for gt invocations
   and the Python regex changes below are dead code.

2. hooks/security_reminder_hook.py: extend three regexes that classify
   the bash command line.

   _GIT_COMMIT_RE: now also matches `gt create` and `gt modify`.
     Used at 4 sites (handler gate, multi-commit count, prompt
     detection, event classification). Compound commands like
     `gt create -am a && gt submit` now correctly trigger both the
     commit and push paths.

   _GIT_AMEND_RE: now also matches `gt modify` (semantically an
     amend). The amend code path uses reflog to find the pre-amend
     SHA and diff against THAT instead of HEAD~1 — same code path
     now applies to `gt modify`.

   _GIT_PUSH_RE: now also matches `gt submit`. Tolerates the same
     `git -C path` / `git -c k=v` global options as before for the
     git form; gt has its own flag layer that doesn't conflict.

Verified locally on macOS Python 3.13:

  - JSON valid (hooks.json roundtrips).
  - Existing 45 smoke + extensibility tests still pass.
  - 76 new tests in test_gt_graphite_workflow.py (added to internal
    test suite this PR doesn't ship — kept in sg-staging tests/ until
    we have a story for shipping plugin tests publicly):

      * 16 parametrized commit-match: native git commit variants +
        all gt create / gt modify variants from the reporter's repro.
      * 11 parametrized commit-reject: gt submit, gt log, gtoolkit
        (word-boundary), agt create, etc.
      * 9 parametrized amend-match: git commit --amend variants +
        gt modify variants + chained git+gt.
      * 7 parametrized amend-reject: regular git commit, gt create,
        gt submit, echo'd substring noise.
      * 11 parametrized push-match: git push variants + gt submit
        variants + chained.
      * 12 parametrized push-reject: git commit, gt log, gt fetch,
        gt down, gt restack, gh pr create, agt submit.
      * 3 compound-command class tests: git+gt mixtures trigger both
        paths; gt modify chained with gt submit triggers
        amend + push.
      * 3 commit-invocation-count tests: gt commands contribute to
        the multi-commit-detection findall count.
      * 2 hooks.json static config tests: read the JSON, verify the
        commit and push `if` clauses include the gt cases. Catches
        the easy regression where someone updates the Python regex
        but forgets to widen the matcher.

  - 121/121 pass total (45 existing + 76 new) in 2.50s.

NOT verified end-to-end with a real `gt` install. Reporter has the
deterministic Graphite workflow and offered to retest. The regex +
matcher widening is a clean superset — current git-only matching still
works (verified by the 45-test smoke suite that uses `git commit` /
`git push` exclusively), and the new gt cases are pure additions.

Not in this PR:

  - `gt prev` / `gt next` / `gt up` / `gt down` etc. — pure
    navigation, no commit / push side effect.
  - `gt restack` — could in principle rewrite commits (so the
    plugin's reviewed-shas cache becomes stale), but it doesn't
    create reviewable new content. Out of scope.
  - `gh pr create` — already explicitly NOT a separate matcher per
    the existing comment in _GIT_PUSH_RE (gh invokes git push as a
    child process; the bash hook only sees the top-level
    `gh pr create`). Same architectural issue as gt but with a
    different cost/benefit per the existing comment.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-05-28 23:33:14 -07:00
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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