PreToolUse

PreToolUse is a hook for coding agents from igovet/codex-cortex-orchestrator. Its token cost is not measured, scanned A, original, MIT.

A pre-tool action that runs specified Python scripts before an agent uses tools, including a script that runs before calls to another agent. Hooks are automatic commands triggered by matching events.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to run Cortex activation and lifecycle-observation scripts before tool calls and delegated-agent calls.
Why use it?
It lets the project activate and observe agent activity before tool use, without relying on the agent to remember those steps.

Hook

One of 9 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/igovet/codex-cortex-orchestrator/pre-tool-use
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/igovet/codex-cortex-orchestrator

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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 3d 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

1 near-identical copy found in the catalogue:

plugins/cortex/hooks/hooks.json · 24 lines

What it actually says

{
  "PreToolUse": [
    {
      "matcher": ".*",
      "hooks": [
        {
          "type": "command",
          "command": "/usr/bin/python3 \"$PLUGIN_ROOT/hooks/cortex_activation.py\"",
          "timeout": 5
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "matcher": "^Agent$",
      "hooks": [
        {
          "type": "command",
          "command": "/usr/bin/python3 -B \"$PLUGIN_ROOT/hooks/cortex_lifecycle_observer.py\"",
          "timeout": 5
        }
      ]
    }
  ]
}
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. 3d ago First seen · 24 lines scan A e2a73d1a17aa

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PreToolUse is a hook published in the GitHub repository igovet/codex-cortex-orchestrator (1 stars, last pushed 3d 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 2026-08-31.