PreToolUse

PreToolUse is a hook for coding agents from evo-hq/evo. Its token cost is not measured, scanned C, original, Apache-2.0.

A pre-tool hook is an automatic command that runs before the coding agent uses another tool. This one runs a Node.js command from the evo project.

In plain words
What is it for?
Running a check or command before every tool call. The hook matches all tools, but the input does not explain a more specific job.
Why use it?
It lets the project inspect or affect tool use before it happens. The provided command is encoded, so its exact behavior is not clear from the description.

Hook

Part of the evo plugin — 7 skills, 2 commands, 3 agents, 6 hooks shipped together

One of 6 entries in hooks.json — they are configured in one file and arrive together.

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

Or install evo, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 7 skills, 2 commands, 3 agents, 6 hooks.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

agentmods badge for PreToolUse

README.md
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Your own site
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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 C 1 finding. Scan, not verified.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Security

Grade C, and why

PreToolUse scanned grade C 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 4d 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.

Encoded or obfuscated payloadhighSupply chain

base64 or hex that is decoded and executed hides what actually runs from anyone reading the file.

"command": "node -e \"eval(Buffer.from('Y29uc3QgZnM9cmVxdWlyZSgnZnMnKSxvcz1yZXF1aXJlKCdvcycpLHBhdGg9cmVxdWlyZSgncGF0aCcpLGNwPXJlcXVpcmUoJ2NoaWxkX3Byb2Nlc3MnKSx0dHk9cmVxdWlyZSgndHR5Jyk7bGV0IGlucHV0PUJ1ZmZlci5hbGxvYygwKTt0
Origin

Copies of this mod

4 near-identical copies found in the catalogue:

plugins/evo/hooks/hooks.json · 13 lines

What it actually says

{
  "PreToolUse": [
    {
      "matcher": ".*",
      "hooks": [
        {
          "type": "command",
          "command": "node -e \"eval(Buffer.from('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','base64').toString())\""
        }
      ]
    }
  ]
}
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. 4d ago First seen · 13 lines scan C cb7393ac71b1

Subscribe to this mod's changes

PreToolUse is a hook published in the GitHub repository evo-hq/evo (1,440 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed Apache-2.0. Its token cost is not measured: a hook is shell that never enters the context. A static security scan graded it C with 1 finding (encoded or obfuscated payload). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.