SessionStart

SessionStart is a hook for coding agents from bigbio/sdrf-skills. Its token cost is not measured, scanned A, original, MIT.

A startup check that runs when an agent session starts, resumes, is cleared, or is compacted. It checks whether the SDRF tools are installed and prints setup instructions if they are missing.

In plain words
What is it for?
Loading SDRF skills, checking for the parse_sdrf command, and showing Conda or pip setup instructions.
Why use it?
It makes the session's available SDRF tools clear and points to the commands needed for installation.

Hook

Part of the sdrf-skills plugin — 16 skills, 2 hooks, 1 MCP server shipped together

One of 2 entries in hooks.json — they are configured in one file and arrive together.

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/bigbio/sdrf-skills/session-start
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/bigbio/sdrf-skills

Or install sdrf-skills, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 16 skills, 2 hooks, 1 MCP server.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

agentmods badge for SessionStart

README.md
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/hooks/bigbio/sdrf-skills/session-start.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/hooks/bigbio/sdrf-skills/session-start)
Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/hooks/bigbio/sdrf-skills/session-start"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/hooks/bigbio/sdrf-skills/session-start.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>
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

SessionStart 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 4d 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.

hooks/hooks.json · 14 lines

What it actually says

{
  "SessionStart": [
    {
      "matcher": "startup|resume|clear|compact",
      "hooks": [
        {
          "type": "command",
          "command": "bash -c 'if command -v parse_sdrf >/dev/null 2>&1; then echo \"sdrf-skills loaded — parse_sdrf available.\"; else echo \"SDRF skills loaded. Install dependencies for full functionality:\"; echo \"  conda: conda env create -f environment.yml && conda activate sdrf-skills\"; echo \"  pip:   pip install -r requirements.txt\"; echo \"Run /sdrf:setup for guided installation.\"; fi'",
          "async": false
        }
      ]
    }
  ]
}
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. 4d ago First seen · 14 lines scan A 8475ac30ad7e

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SessionStart is a hook published in the GitHub repository bigbio/sdrf-skills (16 stars, last pushed 4d 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.