UserPromptExpansion

UserPromptExpansion is a hook for Claude Code from bar181/bar-observatory. Its token cost is not measured, scanned A, a copy of SessionEnd, MIT.

A hook configuration that runs a command to expand a user's prompt before the agent sees it. Prompt expansion adds context or detail to an initial request.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to run the configured UserPromptExpansion command whenever a user prompt needs automatic expansion.
Why use it?
It allows requests to be prepared automatically before the agent begins working on them.

Hook for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the bar-observatory plugin — 5 commands, 21 hooks shipped together

One of 21 entries in hooks.json upstream. Installing this one merges just its entry into your config; the other 20 are separate, each on its own page.

Good fit Use it to run the configured UserPromptExpansion command whenever a user prompt needs automatic expansion.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add hooks/bar181/bar-observatory/user-prompt-expansion
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/bar181/bar-observatory

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install bar-observatory, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 5 commands, 21 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.
Origin 77% copy Near-identical to another mod in the catalogue.
Security

Grade A, and why

UserPromptExpansion 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 9d 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

This is a copy

77% identical to SessionEnd — 4 lines differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.

hooks/hooks.json · 13 lines

What it actually says

{
  "UserPromptExpansion": [
    {
      "matcher": "",
      "hooks": [
        {
          "type": "command",
          "command": "bar-hook UserPromptExpansion"
        }
      ]
    }
  ]
}
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. 9d ago First seen · 13 lines scan A 51090684ac72

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UserPromptExpansion is a hook published in the GitHub repository bar181/bar-observatory (22 stars, last pushed 12d 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. It is 77% identical to SessionEnd, differing in 4 lines, and is treated as a copy.