UserPromptExpansion

UserPromptExpansion is a hook for Claude Code from braintrustdata/braintrust-claude-plugin. Its token cost is not measured, scanned A, a copy of SessionStart, MIT.

An event hook that expands a user’s prompt before the coding agent receives it.

In plain words
What is it for?
Forwarding prompts to another process for expansion before the agent starts work.
Why use it?
It can add processing to prompts automatically, so users do not have to prepare the expanded input themselves.

Hook for Claude Code

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

Part of the trace-claude-code plugin — 13 hooks shipped together

One of 13 entries in hooks.json upstream. Installing this one merges just its entry into your config; the other 12 are separate, each on its own page.

Good fit Forwarding prompts to another process for expansion before the agent starts work.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add hooks/braintrustdata/braintrust-claude-plugin/user-prompt-expansion
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/braintrustdata/braintrust-claude-plugin

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install trace-claude-code, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 13 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 55% 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 27d 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

55% identical to SessionStart — 12 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.

plugins/trace-claude-code/hooks/hooks.json · 19 lines

What it actually says

{
  "UserPromptExpansion": [
    {
      "hooks": [
        {
          "type": "command",
          "command": "bt",
          "args": [
            "trace",
            "hook",
            "--source",
            "claude-code"
          ],
          "async": false
        }
      ]
    }
  ]
}
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. 27d ago Changed · +6 lines e3998150fcc1
  2. 1mo ago Changed 565f185aaed8
  3. 1mo ago First seen · 13 lines scan A d4185d01e64f

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UserPromptExpansion is a hook published in the GitHub repository braintrustdata/braintrust-claude-plugin (21 stars, last pushed today), 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 55% identical to SessionStart, differing in 12 lines, and is treated as a copy.