SessionStart

A session-start hook that runs several Node.js setup commands when a coding session opens. The commands prepare package resolution, watch plugin installation data, align MCP connections, and refresh the Agent Guard tool cache.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to prepare a session, monitor plugin MCP installation metadata, align MCP configuration, and refresh the Agent Guard command-line tool.
Why use it?
It automates setup that would otherwise need to be repeated at the beginning of each session. It keeps plugin and tool configuration aligned with the JFrog Agent Guard service.

Hook

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/jfrog/claude-plugin/session-start
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/jfrog/claude-plugin
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

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 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 · 34 lines

What it actually says

{
  "SessionStart": [
    {
      "hooks": [
        {
          "type": "command",
          "command": "node \"${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/modules/claude-session-start.mjs\" package-resolution",
          "timeout": 7,
          "statusMessage": "Routing package installs through JFrog Artifactory…"
        },
        {
          "type": "command",
          "command": "node \"${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/scripts/claude-register-align-watch-paths.mjs\"",
          "timeout": 5,
          "statusMessage": "Watching plugin MCP install metadata…"
        },
        {
          "type": "command",
          "command": "node \"${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/scripts/claude-align-mcp-json.mjs\" session-start",
          "timeout": 60,
          "statusMessage": "Aligning plugin MCPs with JFrog Agent Guard…"
        },
        {
          "type": "command",
          "shell": "bash",
          "async": true,
          "command": "npx --yes --registry \"${JFROG_AGENT_GUARD_REPO:-https://releases.jfrog.io/artifactory/api/npm/coding-agents-npm/}\" @jfrog/agent-guard --version >/dev/null 2>&1 || true",
          "timeout": 180,
          "statusMessage": "Refreshing the JFrog Agent Guard cache from the registry (once per session; the per-tool hooks then resolve offline)…"
        }
      ]
    }
  ]
}
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. 2d ago First seen · 34 lines scan A dc71a1cc42f0

Subscribe to this mod's changes

SessionStart is a hook published in the GitHub repository jfrog/claude-plugin (5 stars, last pushed 2d ago), 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.