Freeze: Lock Edits to a Directory
SkillAI & modelsLets your agent lock a big decision for a set number of days so it can't be second-guessed on impulse.
Available today. Use it from your connected AI after setup.
No other account needed.
Connect ahel once, and every AI you use reads what you have installed.
Then ask your AI: use the Freeze: Lock Edits to a Directory skill
About this capability
Block Edit and Write outside one directory for the session to contain debugging or parallel agents. Triggers "freeze edits", "restrict edits to", "only edit this folder", "unfreeze".
What this skill tells your AI
The instructions your AI receives, as published by darkroomengineering/cc-settings in skills/freeze/SKILL.md and read by ahel’s review.
Standalone Codex: unsupported
Stop here in standalone Codex. The plugin does not install a freeze guard for
apply_patch, so this skill cannot enforce an edit boundary. Do not write
freeze state or claim a directory is locked. Tell the user the operation is
unsupported and use explicit file ownership as a convention only if they want
to continue without enforcement.
The remaining workflow is Claude-only.
Restrict Edit and Write to a single directory. Any edit targeting a file outside the boundary is blocked by the freeze-guard PreToolUse hook. State persists per session in ~/.claude/tmp/freeze-<sha256(sessionId)>.json; setting, checking, or clearing one session's boundary leaves other sessions untouched. Legacy freeze.json state without a session tag is still honored when no session record exists. Legacy state tagged to another session is ignored without deleting it.
Note: notebook edits (NotebookEdit) and shell writes (Bash) are not gated — the boundary covers the file-editing tools only.
Set the boundary
If the user named a directory, use it. Otherwise ask which directory to lock to (AskUserQuestion, free-text path). Then run, substituting the chosen path for PATH:
bun ~/.claude/src/scripts/freeze.ts set "PATH"
Confirm to the user that edits are now restricted to that path, and that they can lift it any time with "unfreeze".
Lift the boundary
bun ~/.claude/src/scripts/freeze.ts off
Check current state
bun ~/.claude/src/scripts/freeze.ts status
Signals
- GitHub stars
- 45
- Forks
- 3
- Last commit
- Sep 2026
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freeze- Source
- github.com/darkroomengineering/cc-settings