egregore: Hook for Claude Code

.claude/settings.json

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

A set of checks that runs before the coding agent reads files, changes code, or runs commands. The checks cover project boundaries, onboarding, branches, infrastructure hints, and releases.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to enforce project rules before file edits, worktree or planning actions, and shell commands.
Why use it?
It helps prevent the agent from working in the wrong place, skipping required setup, using an unsafe branch, or making risky infrastructure and release changes.

Hook for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: $CLAUDE_PROJECT_DIR variable.

This is egregore-labs/egregore's own configuration. It tells Claude Code how to work on egregore 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 egregore configures →

One of 11 entries in settings.json upstream. Installing this one merges just its entry into your config; the other 10 are separate, each on its own page.

Reuse

Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to egregore-labs/egregore. 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/egregore-labs/egregore/main/.claude/settings.json
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/egregore-labs/egregore

Made for: Claude Code.

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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 50% 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 8d 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

50% identical to SessionStart — 44 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.

.claude/settings.json · 49 lines

What it actually says

{
  "PreToolUse": [
    {
      "matcher": "Read|Edit|Write|Bash|Glob|Grep",
      "hooks": [
        {
          "type": "command",
          "command": "\"$CLAUDE_PROJECT_DIR\"/.claude/hooks/boundary-check.sh"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "matcher": "Edit|Write|Bash|EnterWorktree|EnterPlanMode",
      "hooks": [
        {
          "type": "command",
          "command": "\"$CLAUDE_PROJECT_DIR\"/.claude/hooks/onboarding-guard.sh"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "matcher": "Edit|Write|Bash|EnterPlanMode",
      "hooks": [
        {
          "type": "command",
          "command": "\"$CLAUDE_PROJECT_DIR\"/.claude/hooks/branch-guard.sh"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "matcher": "Bash",
      "hooks": [
        {
          "type": "command",
          "command": "\"$CLAUDE_PROJECT_DIR\"/.claude/hooks/infra-hint.sh"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "matcher": "Bash",
      "hooks": [
        {
          "type": "command",
          "command": "\"$CLAUDE_PROJECT_DIR\"/.claude/hooks/release-guard.sh"
        }
      ]
    }
  ]
}
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. 8d ago First seen · 49 lines scan A 6eb992c5856b

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PreToolUse is a hook published in the GitHub repository egregore-labs/egregore (282 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 50% identical to SessionStart, differing in 44 lines, and is treated as a copy.