A practical guide to building guardrails for GenAI-based coding agents like Claude Code to enforce code quality and prevent poor output. Four layers of defense are described: a pre-commit checklist skill instructing the agent to run linting, type checking, and coverage checks; a deterministic pre-commit Git hook using the
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Pre-commit checklist skill §Pre-commit Git hook §GitHub Actions workflow §Automated GitHub status checks: CodeScene pull request review §What’s next §Need help with modernizing your architecture? §Sort: