PreToolUse

PreToolUse is a hook for Claude Code from agentlas-ai/Agentlas-OS. Its token cost is not measured, scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A pre-tool hook that runs checks before an agent edits files or uses shell commands. It requires Agentlas' write-protection guard and can also run a memory check.

In plain words
What is it for?
Gating edits, file creation, patching, and shell commands before they run.
Why use it?
It can stop tool use when the required safety guard is missing and keeps memory-related checks tied to file and command operations.

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 hephaestus plugin — 4 agents, 6 hooks shipped together

One of 6 entries in hooks.json upstream. Installing this one merges just its entry into your config; the other 5 are separate, each on its own page.

Good fit Gating edits, file creation, patching, and shell commands before they run.

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About the project

Agentlas OS is a local-first system for creating, storing, borrowing, and running specialist AI agents and temporary agent teams through supported hosts and models. It serves people who want reusable agents that remain available across computers and model workspaces, and the catalogue contains its skills, commands, hooks, agents, instructions, plugin, and rule.

agentlas-ai/Agentlas-OS · 1,613 stars · on GitHub · agentlas.cloud

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 agentlas-ai/Agentlas-OS
Claude Code
/plugin install hephaestus

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install hephaestus, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 4 agents, 6 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 14d 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.

claude/plugins/agentlas-core-engine-meta-agent/hooks/hooks.json · 14 lines

What it actually says

{
  "PreToolUse": [
    {
      "matcher": "Edit|Write|MultiEdit|NotebookEdit|apply_patch|Bash",
      "hooks": [
        {
          "type": "command",
          "command": "R=$(printf %s \"${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}\" | tr '\\\\' '/'); if [ -x \"$R/bin/agentlas-memory-hook\" ]; then \"$R/bin/agentlas-memory-hook\" --host claude --event PreToolUse; else printf '{}\\n'; fi",
          "timeout": 10
        }
      ]
    }
  ]
}
Same file

What else hooks.json configures

This page is one entry in a file that holds 6. 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. 14d ago Changed · -5 lines 35d4ee60cb82
  2. 1mo ago First seen · 19 lines scan A 9dce626b3f46

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PreToolUse is a hook published in the GitHub repository agentlas-ai/Agentlas-OS (1,613 stars, last pushed 2d ago), 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 2026-09-03.