PreToolUse

PreToolUse is a hook for Claude Code from defendend/Claude-ast-index-search. Its token cost is not measured, scanned A, a copy of SessionStart, MIT.

A reminder script that runs before the agent searches with Grep, a tool for finding text in files. It is triggered whenever the agent uses Grep.

In plain words
What is it for?
Adding a reminder before text searches in project files.
Why use it?
It can prompt a consistent search practice before looking through the codebase. The exact reminder is not described here.

Hook for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT} variable.

Runs only inside its plugin — its command needs a path that Claude Code sets for a plugin’s own hooks and for nothing else. Install the plugin, not this.

Part of the ast-index plugin — 1 skill, 7 commands, 3 hooks shipped together

One of 3 entries in hooks.json upstream. Installing this one merges just its entry into your config; the other 2 are separate, each on its own page.

Good fit Adding a reminder before text searches in project files.

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Install

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.

Claude Code
/plugin marketplace add defendend/Claude-ast-index-search
Claude Code
/plugin install ast-index

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install ast-index, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 1 skill, 7 commands, 3 hooks.

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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 69% copy Near-identical to another mod in the catalogue.
Security

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 10d 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.

Origin

This is a copy

69% identical to SessionStart — 9 lines differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.

plugin/hooks/hooks.json · 14 lines

What it actually says

{
  "PreToolUse": [
    {
      "matcher": "Grep",
      "hooks": [
        {
          "type": "command",
          "command": "bash ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/hooks/scripts/grep-reminder.sh",
          "timeout": 5
        }
      ]
    }
  ]
}
Same file

What else hooks.json configures

This page is one entry in a file that holds 3. Installing the file brings all of them; each is measured and scanned on its own page.

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. 10d ago First seen · 14 lines scan A 6bae1ad47b38

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PreToolUse is a hook published in the GitHub repository defendend/Claude-ast-index-search (560 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. It is 69% identical to SessionStart, differing in 9 lines, and is treated as a copy.