monban

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> A guardhouse for coding agents. The gatekeeper checks whether code is allowed through the checkpoint.

monban is a harness CLI that statically inspects code generated or edited by coding agents (Claude Code, Cursor, Copilot, etc.) — in CI or locally.

Language-agnostic. No AST required. Works on projects in any language.

For the design philosophy, see docs/concepts.md.

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Checks

| Command | Target | Docs | |---------|------|-------------| | monban path | File and directory existence, naming, depth, count | docs/path.md | | monban content | Regex-based forbidden/required patterns, BOM, invisible characters, secrets | docs/content.md | | monban doc | Doc reference hashes and broken links | docs/doc.md | | monban github | GitHub Actions workflows (pinning, permissions, triggers, etc.) and CODEOWNERS | docs/github.md | | monban deps | Validate manifest dependency names against registries: existence, freshness, popularity, similarity | docs/deps.md | | monban git | Commit messages, trailers, issue references, change granularity, ignore bypasses | docs/git.md | | monban runtime | Runtime version pins (.nvmrc / engines / Dockerfile FROM / GitHub Actions matrix) — cross-file consistency | docs/runtime.md | | monban license | LICENSE file detection (SPDX tag / template) and source-header SPDX identifiers | docs/license.md | | monban docker | Dockerfile checks: tag pinning, USER, HEALTHCHECK, forbidden instructions | docs/docker.md |

The --diff flag, which scopes a run to a PR diff, works on every command (docs/diff.md). For reusing organization-wide rule sets, see docs/extends.md.

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Install

# Global install
npm install -g @mulyu/monban

# One-off run (recommended for CI)
npx @mulyu/monban all

> The package name is @mulyu/monban, but the installed command is monban.

See docs/getting-started.md for the fastest path to a first run.

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Usage

# Run every check
monban all

# Run checks individually
monban path
monban content
monban doc
monban github
monban deps
monban git
monban runtime
monban license
monban docker

# Run a single rule
monban path --rule forbidden

# Scope to a PR diff
monban all --diff=main

# JSON output
monban all --json

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Configuration

Place monban.yml at the project root. See the per-command docs for the configuration fields.

# monban.yml
extends:
  - type: local
    path: "./shared/base.yml"

exclude:
  - "**/node_modules/**"
  - "**/dist/**"

path:    { ... }   # docs/path.md
content: { ... }   # docs/content.md
doc:     { ... }   # docs/doc.md
github:  { ... }   # docs/github.md
deps:    { ... }   # docs/deps.md
git:     { ... }   # docs/git.md
runtime: { ... }   # docs/runtime.md
license: { ... }   # docs/license.md
docker:  { ... }   # docs/docker.md

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Coding agent integration

Claude Code

Add the following to CLAUDE.md to encourage the agent to run the checks after every change:

## Post-change verification

After changing code, always run `npx @mulyu/monban all` and confirm every check passes.

Install as a plugin (recommended)

The monban skill and the /monban:init command can be installed through the Claude Code marketplace.

/plugin marketplace add Mulyu/monban
/plugin install monban@mulyu
/reload-plugins

• monban skill: supplies the command table, output interpretation, fix workflow, and monban.yml conventions to the agent
• /monban:init: surveys an existing project and generates a monban.yml scaffold

The marketplace manifest is at .claude-plugin/marketplace.json; the plugin itself is at plugins/monban/.

GitHub Actions

- name: monban
  run: npx @mulyu/monban all --diff=${{ github.event.pull_request.base.sha }}

Omitting --diff runs a full scan. For PR review, passing the base SHA so only the diff is checked is the recommended setup.

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Docs

• Getting started
• Concepts
• Docs index

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License

MIT