A safety check that runs before an agent uses shell commands, changes files, or fetches and searches web content. It is part of GoPlus AgentGuard.

Use it to run the AgentGuard safety script before Bash, file-writing, file-editing, web-fetching, and web-search actions.

It adds a review step before actions that can affect the computer, project files, or network requests. The input does not describe what decisions the safety check makes.

PreToolUse — Hook by GoPlusSecurity

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/goplussecurity/agentguard/pre-tool-use

Clone the repo

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/GoPlusSecurity/agentguard

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. Scan, not verified.

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 2d 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.

hooks/hooks.json · 37 lines

What it actually says

{
  "PreToolUse": [
    {
      "matcher": "Bash",
      "hooks": [
        {
          "type": "command",
          "command": "node \"${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/skills/agentguard/scripts/guard-hook.js\"",
          "timeout": 10,
          "statusMessage": "GoPlus AgentGuard: checking command safety..."
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "matcher": "Write|Edit",
      "hooks": [
        {
          "type": "command",
          "command": "node \"${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/skills/agentguard/scripts/guard-hook.js\"",
          "timeout": 10,
          "statusMessage": "GoPlus AgentGuard: checking file write safety..."
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "matcher": "WebFetch|WebSearch",
      "hooks": [
        {
          "type": "command",
          "command": "node \"${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/skills/agentguard/scripts/guard-hook.js\"",
          "timeout": 10,
          "statusMessage": "GoPlus AgentGuard: checking network request..."
        }
      ]
    }
  ]
}

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.

2d ago First seen · 37 lines scan A cb249d3178c9

Subscribe to this mod's changes

PreToolUse is a hook published in the GitHub repository GoPlusSecurity/agentguard (458 stars, last pushed 6d 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. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.

Research Writing and docs

PreToolUse

Getting it into your agent

Grade A, and why

Nothing flagged

What it actually says

What this file has done since we first saw it

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