claude-codex-settings: Hook for Claude Code

.claude/settings.json

PreToolUse is a hook for Claude Code from fcakyon/claude-codex-settings. Its token cost is not measured, scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A pre-action check that runs before the agent uses Bash, the command-line tool, and can reject unsafe or unsuitable command patterns.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to check Bash commands for timeout usage before they run, especially when working locally on macOS or connecting to Linux machines.
Why use it?
It prevents a macOS-specific timeout command from failing silently and helps ensure remote commands use a working alternative.

Hook for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: PreToolUse hook event.

This is fcakyon/claude-codex-settings's own configuration. It tells Claude Code how to work on claude-codex-settings 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 claude-codex-settings configures →

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

About the project

claude-codex-settings is a collection of configurations and reusable extensions for Claude Code, OpenAI Codex, Cursor, and related coding tools. Developers use its skills, commands, hooks, agents, plugins, and MCP servers to shape coding-agent workflows and connect alternative model APIs. The catalogue entries are components of this collection that can be installed into supported coding tools.

fcakyon/claude-codex-settings · 1,181 stars · on GitHub · claudesettings.com

Reuse

Borrowing it

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

Made for: Claude Code.

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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 original No closer match found 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 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.

.claude/settings.json · 13 lines

What it actually says

{
  "PreToolUse": [
    {
      "matcher": "Bash",
      "hooks": [
        {
          "type": "command",
          "command": "bash -c 'CMD=$(jq -r \".tool_input.command\"); S=$(printf \"%s\" \"$CMD\" | sed -e \"s/'\\''[^'\\'']*'\\''//g\" -e \"s/\\\"[^\\\"]*\\\"//g\"); if printf \"%s\" \"$S\" | grep -qE \"(^|[;&|(){}]|[[:space:]]do|[[:space:]]then|[[:space:]]else)[[:space:]]*timeout[[:space:]]\"; then printf \"{\\\"hookSpecificOutput\\\":{\\\"hookEventName\\\":\\\"PreToolUse\\\",\\\"permissionDecision\\\":\\\"deny\\\",\\\"permissionDecisionReason\\\":\\\"macOS has no timeout command on this host, so timeout N ... exits 127 with empty output and silently hides the real result (a remote ssh sweep can look idle when it is not). Use ssh -o ConnectTimeout=N, or gtimeout N (brew coreutils), or for a remote Linux host put timeout inside the ssh quotes.\\\"}}\"; fi'"
        }
      ]
    }
  ]
}
Same file

What else settings.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. 1mo ago First seen · 13 lines scan A 07068adfac0f

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PreToolUse is a hook published in the GitHub repository fcakyon/claude-codex-settings (1,181 stars, last pushed today), 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 A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.