UserPromptSubmit

UserPromptSubmit is a hook for Claude Code from braininahat/brains-in-a-hat. Its token cost is not measured, scanned A, original, MIT.

An automatic action that runs when a user sends a prompt. It starts the brains-in-a-hat system's roster setup before the coding agent processes the request.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to initialize the agent roster and session orientation whenever a new user request arrives.
Why use it?
It prepares the multi-agent team at the beginning of a session without requiring manual setup.

Hook for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT} variable.

Runs only inside its plugin — its command needs a path that Claude Code sets for a plugin’s own hooks and for nothing else. Install the plugin, not this.

Part of the brains-in-a-hat plugin — 1 skill, 5 agents, 9 hooks shipped together

One of 9 entries in hooks.json upstream. Installing this one merges just its entry into your config; the other 8 are separate, each on its own page.

Good fit Use it to initialize the agent roster and session orientation whenever a new user request arrives.

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Install

Getting it into your agent

This one installs as part of its plugin. Adding the marketplace and installing the plugin brings it with everything else the plugin ships.

Claude Code
/plugin marketplace add braininahat/brains-in-a-hat
Claude Code
/plugin install brains-in-a-hat

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install brains-in-a-hat, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 1 skill, 5 agents, 9 hooks.

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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 original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Security

Grade A, and why

UserPromptSubmit 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 10d 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:

brains-in-a-hat/hooks/hooks.json · 13 lines

What it actually says

{
  "UserPromptSubmit": [
    {
      "matcher": "",
      "hooks": [
        {
          "type": "command",
          "command": "mkdir -p .brains_in_a_hat/state 2>/dev/null; { \"${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/hooks/new-roster-bootstrap\"; } 2>> .brains_in_a_hat/state/hook-debug.log || true"
        }
      ]
    }
  ]
}
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. 10d ago First seen · 13 lines scan A e9ff6f26a2b8

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UserPromptSubmit is a hook published in the GitHub repository braininahat/brains-in-a-hat (4 stars, last pushed 2mo 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 2026-08-31.