claude-base: Hook for Claude Code

.claude/settings.json

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

A set of automatic checks that run when a coding session starts. It displays basic project information, warns when dependencies are missing, and checks whether a local environment file is ignored by Git.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to inspect the project version and available Claude commands or agents, detect missing node_modules, and check .env handling.
Why use it?
It surfaces common setup problems before work begins and helps avoid accidentally committing local configuration. Git is the version-control system used to track project changes.

Hook for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: $CLAUDE_PROJECT_DIR variable. Also seen: reads .claude/ paths; mentions Claude Code.

This is christopherlouet/claude-base's own configuration. It tells Claude Code how to work on claude-base itself, so it is not a mod to install elsewhere. Copy it as a starting point and replace the rules that are about this project. Everything claude-base configures →

One of 18 entries in settings.json upstream. Installing this one merges just its entry into your config; the other 17 are separate, each on its own page.

Reuse

Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to christopherlouet/claude-base. Take a copy, put it at the same path in your own repository, and replace the rules that are about this project with yours.

Copy the file
curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/christopherlouet/claude-base/main/.claude/settings.json
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/christopherlouet/claude-base

Made for: Claude Code.

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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

SessionStart 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 yesterday.

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 · 75 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 75 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

{
  "SessionStart": [
    {
      "description": "Display project information at startup",
      "hooks": [
        {
          "type": "command",
          "command": "bash -c 'echo \"=== Claude Code Session ===\"; if [ -f VERSION ]; then echo \"Version: $(cat VERSION)\"; fi; if [ -d .claude/commands ]; then echo \"Commandes: $(find .claude/commands -name \"*.md\" -type f 2>/dev/null | wc -l | tr -d \" \")\"; fi; if [ -d .claude/agents ]; then echo \"Agents: $(find .claude/agents -name \"*.md\" -type f 2>/dev/null | wc -l | tr -d \" \")\"; fi; echo \"===========================\"'",
          "timeout": 5
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "description": "Check that node_modules exists if package.json present",
      "hooks": [
        {
          "type": "command",
          "command": "bash -c 'if [ -f package.json ] && [ ! -d node_modules ]; then echo \"[ALERT] node_modules missing. Run: npm install\"; fi'",
          "timeout": 3
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "description": "Check that .env is in .gitignore if present",
      "hooks": [
        {
          "type": "command",
          "command": "bash -c 'if [ -f .env ] && [ -f .gitignore ]; then if ! grep -qE \"^\\.env$|^\\*\\.env$\" .gitignore; then echo \"[SECURITY] .env exists but is not in .gitignore! Add it to avoid committing secrets.\"; fi; fi'",
          "timeout": 3
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "description": "Warn if the project contains custom hooks",
      "hooks": [
        {
          "type": "command",
          "command": "bash -c 'if [ -f .claude/settings.local.json ]; then echo \"[INFO] Custom hooks found in .claude/settings.local.json - review them if this repository is not trusted.\"; fi'",
          "timeout": 3
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "description": "Probe Claude Code version for the output rewriter (requires 2.1.121+). Writes a sentinel consumed by post-edit and bash-output rewriter hooks.",
      "hooks": [
        {
          "type": "command",
          

Read the full file on GitHub · 75 lines

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.

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SessionStart 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.