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Freeze: Lock Edits to a Directory

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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".

Instructions available. Your AI can read the instructions. Execution depends on the setup they require.

Add ahel to your AI once: Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, Claude Code or Codex. Then ask it to use this.

Then ask your AI: use the Freeze: Lock Edits to a Directory skill

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 in ~/.claude/tmp/freeze.json, tagged with the session that set it — a freeze forgotten from a different session or project self-heals away automatically instead of blocking the next session's edits.

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

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Oct 2026
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Key
freeze-darkroomengineering
Source
github.com/darkroomengineering/cc-settings

github.com/darkroomengineering/cc-settings

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