PreToolUse

PreToolUse is a hook for Claude Code from aaron-he-zhu/aaron-marketing-skills. Its token cost is not measured, scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A pre-action hook that runs a shell command before the coding agent uses tools for editing files, running commands, or making certain other changes.

In plain words
What is it for?
Running the configured pre-tool-use script before file edits, shell commands, notebook changes, monitoring, and MCP tool calls.
Why use it?
It provides a checkpoint before tool actions occur, allowing the project’s hook script to handle those actions according to its rules.

Hook for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT} variable. Also seen: names the NotebookEdit tool.

Runs only inside its plugin — its command needs a path that Claude Code sets for a plugin’s own hooks and for nothing else. Install the plugin, not this.

Part of the aaron-marketing plugin — 120 skills, 8 commands, 7 hooks shipped together

One of 7 entries in hooks.json upstream. Installing this one merges just its entry into your config; the other 6 are separate, each on its own page.

Good fit Running the configured pre-tool-use script before file edits, shell commands, notebook changes, monitoring, and MCP tool calls.

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About the project

aaron-marketing-skills is a collection of 120 AI-agent skills covering marketing work such as brand narrative, search optimization, social media, email, advertising, influencer campaigns, and launches. Marketers and agent users can install it as a plugin, use its portable skills, or run its described bot team. The catalogue entries are components of this marketing workflow.

aaron-he-zhu/aaron-marketing-skills · 2,767 stars · on GitHub · aaronmarketing.ai

Install

Getting it into your agent

This one installs as part of its plugin. Adding the marketplace and installing the plugin brings it with everything else the plugin ships.

Claude Code
/plugin marketplace add aaron-he-zhu/aaron-marketing-skills
Claude Code
/plugin install aaron-marketing

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install aaron-marketing, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 120 skills, 8 commands, 7 hooks.

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Per session not measured What this adds to a session before it is invoked.
When invoked not measured Not applicable: nothing here is loaded into a session.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Security

Grade A, and why

PreToolUse scanned grade A with 0 findings 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 13d ago.

A static scan of the commands this hook runs, not an audit. A hook is shell that executes on your machine at the event it names, which is why every command in it is printed with what was found.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

Origin

Copies of this mod

1 near-identical copy found in the catalogue:

hooks/hooks.json · 18 lines

What it actually says

{
  "PreToolUse": [
    {
      "matcher": "Write|Edit|NotebookEdit|Bash|PowerShell|Monitor|mcp__.*",
      "hooks": [
        {
          "type": "command",
          "command": "bash",
          "args": [
            "${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/hooks/claude-hook.sh",
            "pre-tool-use"
          ],
          "timeout": 60
        }
      ]
    }
  ]
}
Same file

What else hooks.json configures

This page is one entry in a file that holds 7. Installing the file brings all of them; each is measured and scanned on its own page.

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. 13d ago First seen · 18 lines scan A 4edaecd22352

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PreToolUse is a hook published in the GitHub repository aaron-he-zhu/aaron-marketing-skills (2,767 stars, last pushed today), licensed Apache-2.0. Its token cost is not measured: a hook is shell that never enters the context. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.