SessionStart

SessionStart is a hook for Claude Code from dentiny/kon. Its token cost is not measured, scanned A, a copy of PreToolUse, MIT.

Session-start hooks are automatic commands that run when a coding session begins. These commands prepare the project directory and start a dashboard using Python.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use them to prepare the working folder and launch the session dashboard automatically.
Why use it?
They remove the need to perform these setup steps manually at the beginning of every session.

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 kon plugin — 1 skill, 18 commands, 6 hooks shipped together

One of 6 entries in hooks.json upstream. Installing this one merges just its entry into your config; the other 5 are separate, each on its own page.

Good fit Use them to prepare the working folder and launch the session dashboard automatically.

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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 dentiny/kon
Claude Code
/plugin install kon

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install kon, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 1 skill, 18 commands, 6 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 77% copy Near-identical to another mod 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 1mo 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

77% identical to PreToolUse — 24 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.

adapters/claude-code/hooks/hooks.json · 16 lines

What it actually says

{
  "SessionStart": [
    {
      "hooks": [
        {
          "type": "command",
          "command": "python3 \"${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/../../hooks/ensure_project_dir.py\""
        },
        {
          "type": "command",
          "command": "python3 \"${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/../../hooks/start_dashboard.py\""
        }
      ]
    }
  ]
}
Same file

What else hooks.json configures

This page is one entry in a file that holds 6. 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. 1mo ago First seen · 16 lines scan A 6a5a2f8a55a3

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SessionStart is a hook published in the GitHub repository dentiny/kon (3 stars, last pushed 3mo 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 77% identical to PreToolUse, differing in 24 lines, and is treated as a copy.