PreToolUse

A pre-tool hook that runs checks before Bash tool calls. It uses Python and runs scripts for attribution, API changes, local curls, protection bypasses, package-manager choices, secret paths, and agent state.

In plain words
What is it for?
It helps enforce command-safety and project conventions in Bash-based agent workflows.
Why use it?
It adds automated checks before commands run, helping catch unsafe or unwanted actions early. The input does not describe the exact rules in each script.

Hook for Claude Code

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/connorads/dotfiles/pre-tool-use
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/connorads/dotfiles

Made for: Claude Code.

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 1 finding. Scan, not verified.
Origin unknown No closer match found in the catalogue.
Security

Grade A, and why

PreToolUse scanned grade A with 1 finding 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.

Makes network callslowCapability

Not a fault in itself. Listed so you know the mod talks to something, and to what.

"command": "python3 ~/.claude/hooks/allow-local-curl.py",
.claude/settings.json · 51 lines

The source is not reproduced here

No licence file

A repository with no LICENSE is all rights reserved by default, so the body is not copied here. The metadata, the measurements and the link are.

Read it on GitHub

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. yesterday First seen · 51 lines scan A db6ca4a7e3ed

Subscribe to this mod's changes

PreToolUse is a hook published in the GitHub repository connorads/dotfiles (16 stars, last pushed yesterday), with no licence file. Its token cost is not measured: a hook is shell that never enters the context. A static security scan graded it A with 1 finding (makes network calls). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-31.