Claude Code Harness is a development workflow for coding agents that organizes work into planning, implementation, review, synchronization, and release stages. It helps developers keep specifications, tests, independent reviews, and release evidence connected while using tools such as Claude Code, Codex CLI, Cursor, or Grok.
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.
/plugin marketplace add Chachamaru127/claude-code-harness/plugin install claude-code-harnessWrote this? Show the measurements
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[](https://agentmods.dev/hooks/chachamaru127/claude-code-harness/pre-tool-use)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/hooks/chachamaru127/claude-code-harness/pre-tool-use"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/hooks/chachamaru127/claude-code-harness/pre-tool-use.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>Grade A, and why
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 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.
Copies of this mod
8 near-identical copies found in the catalogue:
- PostToolUseFailure — 98% identical, 46 lines differ
- SessionStart — 98% identical, 54 lines differ
- PermissionDenied — 98% identical, 46 lines differ
- PostToolUse — 98% identical, 130 lines differ
- Setup — 97% identical, 44 lines differ
- FileChanged — 97% identical, 46 lines differ
- Stop — 97% identical, 47 lines differ
- TaskCreated — 95% identical, 46 lines differ
How it starts
The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 55 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
{
"PreToolUse": [
{
"matcher": "Write|Edit|MultiEdit|Bash|Read",
"hooks": [
{
"type": "command",
"command": "/bin/bash -c 'valid_root(){ local r=\"${1:-}\"; [ -n \"$r\" ] && [ -x \"$r/bin/harness\" ] && [ -f \"$r/.claude-plugin/plugin.json\" ] && /usr/bin/grep -q \"\\\"name\\\"[[:space:]]*:[[:space:]]*\\\"claude-code-harness\\\"\" \"$r/.claude-plugin/plugin.json\"; }; root=\"${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT:-}\"; if ! valid_root \"$root\"; then root=\"\"; for c in \"${CLAUDE_PROJECT_DIR:-}\" \"$PWD\" \"$HOME/.claude/plugins/marketplaces/claude-code-harness-marketplace\" \"$HOME/.claude/plugins/cache/claude-code-harness-marketplace/claude-code-harness/\"*; do if valid_root \"$c\"; then root=\"$c\"; break; fi; done; fi; if ! valid_root \"$root\"; then echo \"[claude-code-harness] plugin root not found; hook skipped\" >&2; exit 0; fi; exec \"$root/bin/harness\" \"$@\"' _ hook pre-tool",
"timeout": 10
}
]
},
{
"matcher": "AskUserQuestion",
"hooks": [
{
"type": "command",
"command": "/bin/bash -c 'valid_root(){ local r=\"${1:-}\"; [ -n \"$r\" ] && [ -x \"$r/bin/harness\" ] && [ -f \"$r/.claude-plugin/plugin.json\" ] && /usr/bin/grep -q \"\\\"name\\\"[[:space:]]*:[[:space:]]*\\\"claude-code-harness\\\"\" \"$r/.claude-plugin/plugin.json\"; }; root=\"${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT:-}\"; if ! valid_root \"$root\"; then root=\"\"; for c in \"${CLAUDE_PROJECT_DIR:-}\" \"$PWD\" \"$HOME/.claude/plugins/marketplaces/claude-code-harness-marketplace\" \"$HOME/.claude/plugins/cache/claude-code-harness-marketplace/claude-code-harness/\"*; do if valid_root \"$c\"; then root=\"$c\"; break; fi; done; fi; if ! valid_root \"$root\"; then echo \"[claude-code-harness] plugin root not found; hook skipped\" >&2; exit 0; fi; exec \"$root/bin/harness\" \"$@\"' _ hook ask-user-question-normalize",
"timeout": 5
}
]
},
{
"matcher": "Write|Edit",
"hooks": [
What else hooks.json configures
This page is one entry in a file that holds 27. Installing the file brings all of them; each is measured and scanned on its own page.
- Hook ConfigChange A not measured
- Hook CwdChanged A not measured
- Hook Elicitation A not measured
- Hook ElicitationResult A not measured
- Hook FileChanged A not measured
- Hook InstructionsLoaded A not measured
- Hook Notification A not measured
- Hook PermissionDenied A not measured
- Hook PermissionRequest A not measured
- Hook PostCompact A not measured
- Hook PostToolUse A not measured
- Hook PostToolUseFailure A not measured
- Hook PreCompact A not measured
- Hook SessionEnd A not measured
- Hook SessionStart A not measured
- Hook Setup A not measured
- Hook Stop A not measured
- Hook StopFailure A not measured
- Hook SubagentStart A not measured
- Hook SubagentStop A not measured
- Hook TaskCompleted A not measured
- Hook TaskCreated A not measured
- Hook TeammateIdle A not measured
- Hook UserPromptSubmit A not measured
- Hook WorktreeCreate A not measured
- Hook WorktreeRemove A not measured
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.
- 4d ago First seen · 55 lines scan A 0078f8ed01a2
PreToolUse is a hook published in the GitHub repository Chachamaru127/claude-code-harness (3,082 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.
Other hooks, from other repositories
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.
SessionStart
Runs when a session starts on startup, executing install_pkgs.sh. From supabase/supabase.
PreToolUse
Runs before the agent uses a tool for Bash tool calls, running an inline shell check. From apache/superset.
PreToolUse
Runs before the agent uses a tool, executing pre-write.sh and pre-bash.sh (2 commands). From anthropics/claude-cookbooks.
SessionStart
Runs when a session starts, executing session-start.sh. From anthropics/claude-cookbooks.