SubagentStart

SubagentStart is a hook for Claude Code from igovet/codex-cortex-orchestrator. Its token cost is not measured, scanned A, a copy of SessionStart, MIT.

A pair of automatic commands that run when a subagent starts. A subagent is a smaller agent working on part of a larger task.

In plain words
What is it for?
Activating Cortex and observing the start of subagent work.
Why use it?
It lets the Cortex activation and lifecycle observer run at the beginning of each subagent's work without a manual command.

Hook for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: a Claude Code hooks.json.

One of 11 entries in hooks.json upstream. Installing this one merges just its entry into your config; the other 10 are separate, each on its own page.

Good fit Activating Cortex and observing the start of subagent work.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add hooks/igovet/codex-cortex-orchestrator/subagent-start
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/igovet/codex-cortex-orchestrator

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 84% copy Near-identical to another mod in the catalogue.
Security

Grade A, and why

SubagentStart 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

This is a copy

84% identical to SessionStart — 5 lines differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.

plugins/cortex/hooks/hooks.json · 14 lines

What it actually says

{
  "SubagentStart": [
    {
      "hooks": [
        {
          "type": "command",
          "command": "python3 -B \"${PLUGIN_ROOT}/scripts/cortex_hook.py\"",
          "timeout": 3,
          "additionalContextLimit": 1000
        }
      ]
    }
  ]
}
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 Changed · -8 lines 9609a38c975b
  2. 1mo ago Changed 7e2f72aa3ccf
  3. 1mo ago First seen · 22 lines scan A 7ed45c52030d

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SubagentStart is a hook published in the GitHub repository igovet/codex-cortex-orchestrator (2 stars, last pushed 4d 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. It is 84% identical to SessionStart, differing in 5 lines, and is treated as a copy.