A pre-tool hook that runs a shell script before Edit, Write, or MultiEdit operations. Hooks are automatic checks that run when a specified action is about to happen.

Use it to require a skill before an agent edits, writes, or makes multiple file changes.

It lets the environment enforce required skills or checks before files are changed.

PreToolUse — Hook by avantsoftware

Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

agentmods

npx agentmods add hooks/avantsoftware/sheepdog/pre-tool-use

Clone the repo

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/avantsoftware/sheepdog

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. Scan, not verified.

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 2d 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

2 near-identical copies found in the catalogue:

PostToolUse — 86% identical, 6 lines differ
Notification — 86% identical, 5 lines differ

sheepdog/hooks/hooks.json · 13 lines

What it actually says

{
  "PreToolUse": [
    {
      "matcher": "Edit|Write|MultiEdit",
      "hooks": [
        {
          "type": "command",
          "command": "\"${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}\"/hooks/require-skill.sh"
        }
      ]
    }
  ]
}

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.

2d ago First seen · 13 lines scan A ae03dca86cb7

Subscribe to this mod's changes

PreToolUse is a hook published in the GitHub repository avantsoftware/sheepdog (11 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. 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.

PreToolUse

Getting it into your agent

Grade A, and why

Nothing flagged

Copies of this mod

What it actually says

What this file has done since we first saw it

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