BeforeTool

BeforeTool is a hook for coding agents from itallstartedwithaidea/google-ads-gemini-extension. Its token cost is not measured, scanned A, original, MIT.

A pre-tool check for Google Ads Query Language (GAQL) calls made through `run_gaql`. It runs a Node.js script before the call to validate the query and prevent write operations.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to check GAQL queries before sending them through `run_gaql`, especially in workflows that should only inspect data.
Why use it?
It helps stop a query from changing Google Ads data when only a read was intended.

Hook

One of 2 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/itallstartedwithaidea/google-ads-gemini-extension/before-tool
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/itallstartedwithaidea/google-ads-gemini-extension

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README.md
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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

BeforeTool 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 5d 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 · 15 lines

What it actually says

{
  "BeforeTool": [
    {
      "matcher": "run_gaql",
      "hooks": [
        {
          "type": "command",
          "command": "node ${extensionPath}/hooks/validate-gaql.js",
          "name": "validate-gaql",
          "description": "Validates GAQL queries to prevent write operations"
        }
      ]
    }
  ]
}
Same file

What else hooks.json configures

This page is one entry in a file that holds 2. 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.

  1. 5d ago First seen · 15 lines scan A e435d8b77cfd

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BeforeTool is a hook published in the GitHub repository itallstartedwithaidea/google-ads-gemini-extension (8 stars, last pushed 1mo 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.