It is for initializing the novel-writing project at the beginning of a session.

It lets the project perform the same session setup automatically instead of relying on you to run it by hand.

How forsonny/Claude-Code-Novel-Writer configures Claude Code

Claude-Code-Novel-Writer: Hook for Claude Code

.claude/settings.json

SessionStart is a hook for Claude Code from forsonny/Claude-Code-Novel-Writer. Its token cost is not measured, scanned A, original, no licence file.

A startup hook that runs a setup script when a coding session starts or resumes, including after the session is cleared, shortened, or forked.

In plain words

What is it for?: It is for initializing the novel-writing project at the beginning of a session.
Why use it?: It lets the project perform the same session setup automatically instead of relying on you to run it by hand.

Written for Claude Code: installed under .claude/.

This is forsonny/Claude-Code-Novel-Writer's own configuration. It tells Claude Code how to work on Claude-Code-Novel-Writer 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-Code-Novel-Writer configures →

One of 5 entries in settings.json upstream. Installing this one merges just its entry into your config; the other 4 are separate, each on its own page.

Reuse

Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to forsonny/Claude-Code-Novel-Writer. 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/forsonny/Claude-Code-Novel-Writer/main/.claude/settings.json

Clone the repo

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/forsonny/Claude-Code-Novel-Writer

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 unknown No closer match found 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 2mo 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

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What else `settings.json` configures

This page is one entry in a file that holds 5. 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.

2mo ago First seen · 13 lines scan A 8f70ae31b591

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SessionStart is a hook published in the GitHub repository forsonny/Claude-Code-Novel-Writer (147 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), with no licence file. 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.

SessionStart next to 6 hooks from other repositories
Mod	Type	Stars	Last push	Licence	Scan	Tokens	Works with
SessionStartforsonny/Claude-Code-Novel-Writer	Hook	147	2mo ago	none	A	—	Claude Code
PostToolUsesupabase/supabase	Hook	115k	today	Apache-2.0	A	—	Claude Code
SessionStartgoogle-gemini/gemini-cli	Hook	109k	today	Apache-2.0	A	—	Claude Code
SessionStartsupabase/supabase	Hook	115k	today	Apache-2.0	A	—	Claude Code
PreToolUseapache/superset	Hook	75k	today	Apache-2.0	A	—	Claude Code
PostToolUseanthropics/claude-plugins-official	Hook	46k	today	Apache-2.0	A	—	Claude Code
PreToolUseanthropics/claude-cookbooks	Hook	54k	2d ago	MIT	A	—	Claude Code