Borrowing it
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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 2mo 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.
This is a copy
48% identical to SessionStart — 73 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.
How it starts
The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 76 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
{
"PreToolUse": [
{
"matcher": "Write|Edit|MultiEdit",
"hooks": [
{
"type": "command",
"command": "\"${CLAUDE_PROJECT_DIR:-.}\"/.claude/hooks/config-protection.sh",
"timeout": 5
}
],
"description": "Block modifications to linter/formatter config files (biome.json, tsconfig, etc.)",
"id": "pre:edit:config-protection"
},
{
"matcher": "Bash",
"hooks": [
{
"type": "command",
"command": "\"${CLAUDE_PROJECT_DIR:-.}\"/.claude/hooks/rtk-rewrite.sh",
"timeout": 5
}
],
"description": "RTK: transparently rewrites commands for 60-90% output token savings (no-op if rtk not installed)",
"id": "pre:bash:rtk-rewrite"
},
{
"matcher": "Bash",
"hooks": [
{
"type": "command",
"command": "\"${CLAUDE_PROJECT_DIR:-.}\"/.claude/hooks/pre-commit-quality.sh",
"timeout": 30
}
],
"description": "Pre-commit quality gate: block secrets/debugger, warn console.log",
"id": "pre:bash:commit-quality"
},
{
"matcher": "Bash",
"hooks": [
{
"type": "command",
"command": "\"${CLAUDE_PROJECT_DIR:-.}\"/.claude/hooks/terminal-safety-gate.sh",
"timeout": 5
}
],
"description": "Block dangerous terminal patterns: interactive editors, bare psql, docker exec -it, standalone sleep",
"id": "pre:bash:terminal-safety"
},
{
"matcher": "*",
"hooks": [
{
"type": "command",
"command": "\"${CLAUDE_PROJECT_DIR:-.}\"/.claude/hooks/suggest-compact.sh",
"timeout": 5
}
],
"description": "Suggest /compact at strategic intervals (50 tool calls)",
"id": "pre:all:suggest-compact"
},
{
"matcher": "Glob|Grep",
"hooks": [
{
"type": "command",
"command": "[ -f graphify-out/grapWhat else settings.json configures
This page is one entry in a file that holds 9. Installing the file brings all of them; each is measured and scanned on its own page.
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.
- 2mo ago First seen · 76 lines scan A be9f7763b093
PreToolUse is a hook published in the GitHub repository brain-bootstrap/claude-code-brain-bootstrap (11 stars, last pushed 6mo 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 48% identical to SessionStart, differing in 73 lines, and is treated as a copy.
Other hooks, from other repositories
PreToolUse
Runs before the agent uses a tool for Bash, Read, Edit, Write, NotebookEdit, Grep, Glob, mcp__.+__capy_(execute, execute_file and batch_execute) tool calls, executing guard.sh. From serpro69/claude-toolbox.
SessionStart
Runs when a session starts, executing set-plugin-root.sh via bash. From serpro69/claude-toolbox.
SessionStart
Runs when a session starts on startup, executing install_pkgs.sh. From supabase/supabase.
PostToolUse
Runs after a tool call finishes for Write and Edit tool calls, executing format_and_lint.sh. From supabase/supabase.
SessionStart
Runs when a session starts, executing on-start.js via node. From google-gemini/gemini-cli.
PreToolUse
Runs before the agent uses a tool for Bash tool calls, running an inline shell check. From apache/superset.