PreToolUse

PreToolUse is a hook for Claude Code from backnotprop/plannotator. Its token cost is not measured, scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A pre-tool hook that runs a command before the agent enters plan mode. It uses Plannotator to improve the planning context.

In plain words
What is it for?
Running context improvement whenever the agent calls EnterPlanMode.
Why use it?
It adds an automatic preparation step before planning starts, so the agent can receive more relevant context.

Hook for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: PreToolUse hook event.

Part of the plannotator plugin — 2 hooks shipped together

One of 2 entries in hooks.json upstream. Installing this one merges just its entry into your config; the other 1 are separate, each on its own page.

Good fit Running context improvement whenever the agent calls EnterPlanMode.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add hooks/backnotprop/plannotator/pre-tool-use
About the project

Plannotator is a local browser-based review tool for coding agents that lets people annotate plans, documents, HTML artifacts, code diffs, and pull requests, then send feedback back to the agent. It is used by developers and teams reviewing work from agents across supported coding tools and version-control systems.

backnotprop/plannotator · 9,452 stars · on GitHub · plannotator.ai

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.

Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/backnotprop/plannotator

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install plannotator, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 2 hooks.

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README.md
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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. ✓ AI security review Fable 5.1 · 7 Sept 2026 📄 Read the review
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 1mo 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.

apps/hook/hooks/hooks.json · 14 lines

What it actually says

{
  "PreToolUse": [
    {
      "matcher": "EnterPlanMode",
      "hooks": [
        {
          "type": "command",
          "command": "plannotator improve-context",
          "timeout": 5
        }
      ]
    }
  ]
}
Same file

What else hooks.json configures

This page is one entry in a file that holds 2. 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. 1mo ago First seen · 14 lines scan A 4df2dd782c3a

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PreToolUse is a hook published in the GitHub repository backnotprop/plannotator (9,452 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.