Chock policies for Copilot CLI and VS Code agent mode — a real PreToolUse deny hook where the client supports it.
An agent you're running can already touch your shell, your git history, and your CI config.
You want it to move fast without being the reason a stray rm -rf actually happens. Telling
it to be careful in a prompt is not a guarantee; a plugin that can refuse the command is
closer to one — and it should be honest about which of those two it is.
# VS Code / GitHub Copilot: add this repository as a plugin marketplace, then install a
# plugin by name. See the Copilot plugins marketplace and VS Code's agent-plugins docs:
# https://github.com/github/copilot-plugins
# https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/agent-customization/agent-plugins
These packages use the Claude plugin format, which VS Code and GitHub Copilot CLI read
natively (VS Code auto-detects the format and sets CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT for the hook).
Guard policies ship a PreToolUse hook and are session-enforced where the host honours it —
the hook exits non-zero and the client refuses the call. This needs python3 and a usable
shell on PATH: fail-open clients allow silently without them, fail-closed clients refuse
matched commands. Advisory policies are a skill the client reads; they shape behaviour but
cannot block anything on their own. See PLUGINS.md for the full list: each
policy, its version, whether it enforces or advises in this client, and a catalog link.
Every file here is compiled from policy sources in chock-catalog by chock. Pull requests against this repository are closed automatically — open them against the catalog instead.
- Generated only: CI regenerates from the pinned catalog and fails on any difference.
- Byte-identical guards: guard scripts and the hook adapter are verbatim copies of their framework sources.
- Best-effort, not a boundary: guards are pattern-based filters; see SECURITY.md.
- Tested upstream, and gated: every policy ships an eval suite
(
base/<policy>/evals/suite.yaml) in the catalog, and the publish workflow runschock checkandchock check --only evalsbefore packaging anything — a policy whose evals fail cannot reach this repository. The tests live in the catalog because the policy source does; this repository is compiled output. - This README is the exception: the one hand-written file in this repository, so it alone sits outside the generated-only guarantee.
Nothing above asks for trust that cannot be checked. This rebuilds the published tree from source and compares it with what is committed here:
git clone https://github.com/open-coder-ai/chock-copilot-plugins dist
git clone --branch v0.7.0 https://github.com/open-coder-ai/chock framework
git clone https://github.com/open-coder-ai/chock-catalog catalog
pip install ./framework
chock plugin build --repo catalog --policies-dir base --format agent-plugins --out-dir dist
chock plugin build --repo catalog --policies-dir base --format claude --out-dir dist
chock plugin build --repo catalog --policies-dir base --format copilot --out-dir dist
chock marketplace build --dist dist
git -C dist diff --exit-code && git -C dist status --porcelainSilence from both git commands means this repository is byte-identical to a fresh build
from the catalog. --branch v0.7.0 is the framework release this tree was published from.
chock-market.lock records a sha256 per published plugin directory, so one package can be
checked without rebuilding the rest.
If you are listing these plugins in a marketplace, pin both a tag and the full commit SHA. The tag names the release; the SHA is what holds the reviewed bytes still.
| You want to | Go to |
|---|---|
| Fix or add a policy | chock-catalog — it reaches every client from there, including this one |
| Report that a guard did or did not block on your Copilot CLI or VS Code version | an issue on chock, which records the witnessed-blocking claims these packages carry; "it fails open where you say it fails closed" is the most useful result you can send |
| Report a bug in how packages are generated | chock, where the emitter lives |
| Fix this README | here — it is the one hand-written file in the repository |
| agentseam | the primitives — one handler API and a verified capability matrix across 16 agents |
| chock | the compiler — one policy into git hooks, CI gates and native pre-tool hooks |
| chock-catalog | the policies — 39, each labelled enforced or advisory, with replayed evals |
| context-report | the evidence — a signed report of whether an agent artifact actually works |
| chock-threat-intel | the threat ledger the catalog's policies answer to |
| chock-{claude,cursor,copilot,codex}-plugins | the catalog, packaged for each agent's plugin format (generated) |
| chock-quickstart · chock-example | template repos: what chock init leaves behind, and a full adoption |
Apache-2.0, same as the framework and the catalog.
