SessionStart

SessionStart is a hook for Claude Code from google-gemini/gemini-cli. Its token cost is not measured, scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A session-start hook that runs a Node.js script automatically when a session begins.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to run setup or initialization logic when a Gemini CLI session opens.
Why use it?
It removes the need to remember a startup command for work that should happen at the beginning of every session.

Hook for Claude Code ✓ vendor

Written for Claude Code: SessionStart hook event.

Good fit Use it to run setup or initialization logic when a Gemini CLI session opens.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add hooks/google-gemini/gemini-cli/session-start
About the project

Gemini CLI is a terminal-based AI agent that lets developers interact with Google Gemini models and use tools for tasks such as file operations, shell commands, web fetching, and search. Developers use it from the command line, and the catalogue add-ons extend its workflows and integrations.

google-gemini/gemini-cli · 107,389 stars · on GitHub · geminicli.com

Install

Getting it into your agent

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Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/google-gemini/gemini-cli

Made for: Claude Code.

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README.md
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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. ✓ AI security review Fable 5.1 · 7 Sept 2026 📄 Read the review
Origin original 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 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

Copies of this mod

3 near-identical copies found in the catalogue:

packages/cli/src/commands/extensions/examples/hooks/hooks/hooks.json · 12 lines

What it actually says

{
  "SessionStart": [
    {
      "hooks": [
        {
          "type": "command",
          "command": "node ${extensionPath}/scripts/on-start.js"
        }
      ]
    }
  ]
}
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 · 12 lines scan A 30141bc1a11c

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SessionStart is a hook published in the GitHub repository google-gemini/gemini-cli (107,389 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.