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by 0xhimanshu · Claude Skill · ★ 133
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Governor for Claude Code Keep Claude Code concise, clean, and under control. Version 0.2.1 Compact professional output, context hygiene, tool-output filtering, and usage telemetry for Claude Code Max users. Governor is the serious alternative to style-only token savers. It keeps the agent concise, shrinks recurring memory files, blocks noisy logs from flooding context, and adds planning guardrails for broad tasks. The installed Claude Code command namespace is still . Quick Start Restart Claude Code, then run: Governor auto-starts in compact professional mode when the plugin is loaded. Use to disable response compression and to re-enable it. V2 Highlights VCLR benchmark harness: fixture-based benchmarks now score valid-context loss, decision preservation, and wrong-decision rate, not only token counts. Structured tool filtering: Governor preserves high-signal clues from noisy MCP-style payloads such as Burp history and Playwright network dumps. No-compress safety boundaries: risky source reads and code-heavy tool outputs stay intact instead of being compacted into something misleadin
| Stars | 133 |
| Forks | 7 |
| Language | Python |
| Category | Claude Skill |
| License | MIT |
| Quality Score | 76.6468420961366/100 |
| Last Updated | 2026-09-06 |
| Created | 2026-05-01 |
| Platforms | claude-code, cli, python |
| Est. Tokens | ~16k |
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governor is Claude Code usage governor: compact professional output, context slimming, tool-output filtering, telemetry, and drift guardrails.. It is categorized as a Claude Skill with 133 GitHub stars.
governor is primarily written in Python. It covers topics such as ai-tools, claude-ai, claude-code.
You can find installation instructions and usage details in the governor GitHub repository at github.com/0xhimanshu/governor. The project has 133 stars and 7 forks, indicating an active community.
governor is released under the MIT license, making it free to use and modify according to the license terms.
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Grades come from a rule-based scan built on the SlowMist agent-security taxonomy, covering 11 red-flag categories including credential harvesting, data exfiltration, and curl | sh installers. It is a first-layer scan, not a manual audit — we say so rather than overstate it.
The scale of the problem is documented independently: Liu et al. (2026), in a study of 31,132 agent skills, report that 26.1% contain security vulnerabilities. Our own full-catalog census is published as a citable open dataset.
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