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.
npx agentmods add hooks/christopherlouet/claude-base/pre-tool-usegit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/christopherlouet/claude-baseWrote this? Show the measurements
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[](https://agentmods.dev/hooks/christopherlouet/claude-base/pre-tool-use)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/hooks/christopherlouet/claude-base/pre-tool-use"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/hooks/christopherlouet/claude-base/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 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.
How it starts
The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 124 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
{
"PreToolUse": [
{
"description": "Prevent modifications on the main/master branch (disable with ALLOW_MAIN_EDIT=1)",
"matcher": "Edit|Write|MultiEdit|NotebookEdit",
"hooks": [
{
"type": "command",
"command": "bash \"$CLAUDE_PROJECT_DIR/scripts/hooks/main-branch-guard.sh\"",
"timeout": 5000,
"onFailure": "block"
}
]
},
{
"description": "Block hardcoded secrets before writing (built-in zero-dep scan; also runs gitleaks if present). Disable with SKIP_SECRET_SCAN=1",
"matcher": "Edit|Write|MultiEdit|NotebookEdit",
"hooks": [
{
"type": "command",
"command": "bash \"$CLAUDE_PROJECT_DIR/scripts/hooks/secret-scan.sh\"",
"timeout": 10000,
"onFailure": "block"
}
]
},
{
"description": "Run tests before a commit (disable with SKIP_PRE_COMMIT_TESTS=1). Detects Husky and adapts behavior.",
"matcher": "Bash",
"hooks": [
{
"type": "command",
"command": "bash \"$CLAUDE_PROJECT_DIR/scripts/hooks/pre-commit-tests.sh\"",
"timeout": 120000,
"onFailure": "block"
}
]
},
{
"description": "Check local CI before git push (disable with SKIP_PRE_PUSH_CI=1)",
"matcher": "Bash",
"hooks": [
{
"type": "command",
"command": "bash \"$CLAUDE_PROJECT_DIR/scripts/hooks/pre-push-ci.sh\"",
"timeout": 180000,
"onFailure": "block"
}
]
},
{
"description": "Mandatory confirmation before destructive operations on data (disable with SKIP_DESTRUCTIVE_CHECK=1)",
"matcher": "Bash",
"hooks": [
{
"type": "command",
"command": "bash \"$CLAUDE_PROJECT_DIR/scripts/hooks/destructive-ops.sh\"",
"timeout": 5000,
"onFailure": "block"
}
]
},
{
"description": "Pre-deploy safety: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.
- today First seen · 124 lines scan A 644dd367be9e
PreToolUse 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.
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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.