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Add HOL Guard agent-runtime safety skill #231

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@kantorcodes

New skill proposal

Add a cross-cutting hol-guard-agent-runtime-safety skill for researchers using Scientific Agent Skills from supported local coding-agent harnesses.

The skill would directly install and invoke HOL Guard before an agent starts tool-using scientific workflows:

pipx install hol-guard
hol-guard detect --json
hol-guard install <detected-harness>
hol-guard run <detected-harness>

HOL Guard remains the actual local runtime boundary; the skill would not replace scientific validation, package-specific safeguards, credential controls, or the repository's existing security guidance. Deny/review/error/unavailable Guard states would be fail-closed rather than bypassed by relaunching an unprotected agent.

This seems to fit the repository's existing Agent Platforms & Infrastructure scope and its standard Agent Skills / Agent Plugins distribution. If accepted, the maintained skill could be installed through the same npx skills add K-Dense-AI/scientific-agent-skills and gh skill install surfaces already documented here.

I would keep the implementation small and repository-native: one skills/hol-guard-agent-runtime-safety/SKILL.md starting at metadata version 1.0, with no scripts unless maintainers specifically want executable helpers. That avoids adding unnecessary tests/dependencies while still invoking the real hol-guard CLI.

I maintain HOL Guard / Hashgraph Online. AI assistance was used to prepare this focused proposal. Happy to follow the repository's validation and security-scan requirements in a PR if this scope is welcome.

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