Elicitation

Elicitation is a hook for Claude Code from christopherlouet/claude-base. Its token cost is not measured, scanned A, original, MIT.

An event hook that logs when the agent asks the user a question through an external tool connection.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to track when tool-based input was requested during an agent run.
Why use it?
It preserves a record of questions that may otherwise be easy to miss.

Hook for Claude Code

One of 18 entries in settings.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/christopherlouet/claude-base/elicitation
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/christopherlouet/claude-base

Made for: Claude Code.

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Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Security

Grade A, and why

Elicitation 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 today.

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.

.claude/settings.json · 15 lines

What it actually says

{
  "Elicitation": [
    {
      "description": "Log MCP Elicitation input requests",
      "hooks": [
        {
          "type": "command",
          "command": "bash -c 'echo \"[MCP] Elicitation request $(date +%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%S)\" >> /tmp/claude-mcp.log 2>/dev/null || true'",
          "timeout": 5000,
          "async": 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. today First seen · 15 lines scan A 8761afb27f6e

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Elicitation is a hook published in the GitHub repository christopherlouet/claude-base (5 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. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-09-03.