guardrails tools

List, install or locate the external tools Guardrails runs

Synopsis

Manage the linters, formatters and scanners the language modules run.

Each tool is pinned in tools.yaml and checksum-locked per platform. A tool on your PATH is used first (unless tools.prefer is managed); otherwise guardrails installs the pinned version into its data dir on first use, so the host needs nothing but the plugin.

guardrails tools [flags]

Examples

  guardrails tools list
  guardrails tools install            # everything, e.g. in CI or a Dockerfile
  guardrails tools install ruff shellcheck
  guardrails tools path golangci-lint

Options

  -h, --help   help for tools

Options inherited from parent commands

      --config string     config file for all your repos (default ~/.config/guardrails/config.yaml)
      --data-dir string   where guardrails keeps state (default $CLAUDE_PLUGIN_DATA, else ~/.local/share/guardrails)

SEE ALSO

• guardrails - Quality gates for Claude Code
• guardrails tools install - Install pinned tools (all supported tools when none are named)
• guardrails tools list - Show every tool, its pinned version and where it resolves from
• guardrails tools path - Print the command used to run a tool, installing it if needed