cli-engineer

cli-engineer is an agent for Claude Code from steve-magne/hookstack. It costs 0 tokens per session (837 once invoked), scanned B, original, MIT.

A review skill that checks a code change for unnecessary complexity. It looks for existing code, standard-library features, or simpler approaches that could replace new implementation.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it after implementing a feature or fix, before a pull request or release, or when a change adds files, dependencies, wrappers, or other complexity.
Why use it?
It catches overbuilding after a feature or fix appears to work. The review reports what could be trimmed without changing the code.

Agent for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: $CLAUDE_PROJECT_DIR variable. Also seen: reads .claude/ paths; mentions Claude Code; reads ~/.codex paths.

Good fit Use it after implementing a feature or fix, before a pull request or release, or when a change adds files, dependencies, wrappers, or other complexity.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/steve-magne/hookstack/cli-engineer
Install

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Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/steve-magne/hookstack

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 0 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 837 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan B 1 finding. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00000 $0.00837
Opus 5.5 $0.00000 $0.00335
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00000 $0.00167
Haiku 4.5 $0.00000 $0.00084

Measured 1mo ago against content hash 0b6ee920a406, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade B, and why

cli-engineer scanned grade B with 1 finding against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 1mo ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Reads agent configuration directoriesmediumAgent snooping

.claude/, .codex/, .gemini/ hold keys, settings and other credentials a mod has no legitimate need for.

| `project` | (défaut) | `./.claude/settings.json` | claude (`hooks`) | conserve `$CLAUDE_PROJECT_DIR` |
.claude/agents/cli-engineer.md · 54 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 54 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

CLI Engineer — Hookstack

Mission

Implémenter ou modifier le CLI public hookstack-cli (packages/cli/), installé via npx hookstack-cli@latest. Promesse produit : « Get your HookStack in 1 minute ».

Architecture du CLI

  • Entrée : packages/cli/bin/cli. Logique pure : packages/cli/bin/core.mjs.
  • Installe les mêmes hooks vers 5 scopes couvrant 3 agents (Claude Code / Codex / Copilot). Le code .mjs est identique entre agents — seul le format de config diffère.
Scope Flag Cible Format Réécriture chemins
project (défaut) ./.claude/settings.json claude (hooks) conserve $CLAUDE_PROJECT_DIR
global -g/--global ~/.claude/settings.json claude $CLAUDE_PROJECT_DIR → racine absolue
copilot --copilot ./.claude/settings.json claude retire $CLAUDE_PROJECT_DIR/ (relatif)
codex-project --codex-project ./.codex/hooks.json codex (events racine) $CLAUDE_PROJECT_DIR/.claude/ → .codex/
codex-profile --codex-profile ~/.codex/hooks.json codex $CLAUDE_PROJECT_DIR/.claude/ → <home>/.codex/

Ordre du menu interactif : This project → All my projects → Codex profile → Codex project → GitHub Copilot.

Fonctions clés (core.mjs)

resolveScopeRoot (retourne format + chemins), collectIncomingHooks (réécrit command par scope), resolveScriptPath (relocalise .claude/hooks/ → .codex/hooks/ pour Codex), isGlobalScope / isCodexScope (prédicats). Pour Codex, doInstall écrit les événements à la racine du hooks.json (pas de wrapper hooks).

Conventions

  • PREREQ_HINTS : tout hook requérant un outil externe (jscpd, gh, uv…) doit avoir une entrée dans core.mjs — le CLI affiche alors la commande d'installation après l'install.
  • Tonalité des messages / flags / exemples doit rester cohérente avec le README GitHub et le README npm (packages/cli/README.md) — ce sont les deux faces d'une même promesse.
  • Toute évolution du flow ou des slugs d'exemple doit être répercutée sur les 4 surfaces (site / CLI / doc/product/ / README.md).

Read the full file on GitHub · 54 lines

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 1mo ago First seen · 54 lines · 0 tokens per session scan B 0b6ee920a406

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cli-engineer is an agent published in the GitHub repository steve-magne/hookstack (7 stars, last pushed 4d ago), licensed MIT. It costs nothing until one of its globs matches a file; then it loads 837 tokens. A static security scan graded it B with 1 finding (reads agent configuration directories). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-31.

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