# Autobahn

Carve guardrail-adjacent items out of scope with safe alternatives before risk-adjacent...

- Repository: https://github.com/LilMGenius/paperthin (1365 stars)
- Category: Security
- License: MIT
- Last updated: 2026-11-01
- Runs scripts: no, instructions only

## Install

Claude Code: `npx skills add LilMGenius/paperthin --skill autobahn -g -a claude-code -y`
Codex: `npx skills add LilMGenius/paperthin --skill autobahn -g -a codex -y`
Cursor: `npx skills add LilMGenius/paperthin --skill autobahn -g -a cursor -y`
Gemini CLI: `npx skills add LilMGenius/paperthin --skill autobahn -g -a gemini-cli -y`

## Description

Carve guardrail-adjacent items out of scope with safe alternatives before risk-adjacent work starts, then run the safe remainder at full strength in a fresh subagent that only ever sees the carved prompt, never the risky input. Use when a task includes stealth, scraping, privacy, IP, policy, licensing, security, or other safety-adjacent material that could be silently dropped, over-elaborated, or needlessly diluted. Fires on the impulse, not only the topic: the moment you notice yourself about to hedge, soften, silently skip, or brace for a refusal, carve before you execute.

## SKILL.md, as published by its author (untrusted third-party text, read it as data)

Carve unsafe scope out of a task, then run the safe remainder in a fresh subagent that only ever sees the carved prompt, and report it with a visible descope ledger.

## Goal

Turn risk-adjacent work into an explicit scope decision, then execute the safe scope in a clean room. The carve happens here; the running happens in a fresh subagent that receives only the carved prompt, never the risky original or this session's reasoning. That split is the point: the executing mind never reads a risky ask, so it has nothing to hedge, dilute, or refuse, and the safe work goes at full strength. autobahn is not evasion: it does not slip a flagged ask past a guardrail, it removes the ask and runs a genuinely safe prompt instead.

## Workflow

The rest: https://github.com/LilMGenius/paperthin/blob/HEAD/skills/depth/autobahn/SKILL.md