PreToolUse

PreToolUse is a hook for Claude Code from jie-worldstatelabs/stagent. Its token cost is not measured, scanned A, original, no licence file.

A pre-tool hook that runs shell scripts before the agent uses Agent, Bash, or AskUserQuestion tools.

In plain words
What is it for?
It is for controlling or recording selected tool calls before they execute. The listed scripts determine the exact behavior.
Why use it?
It can apply checks, rewrite paths, ask-user handling, and activity tracking before those tools run.

Hook for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the stagent plugin — 3 skills, 9 commands, 1 agent, 8 hooks shipped together

One of 8 entries in hooks.json — they are configured in one file and arrive together.

Good fit It is for controlling or recording selected tool calls before they execute.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add hooks/jie-worldstatelabs/stagent/pre-tool-use
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.

Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/jie-worldstatelabs/stagent

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install stagent, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 3 skills, 9 commands, 1 agent, 8 hooks.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

agentmods badge for PreToolUse

README.md
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Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/hooks/jie-worldstatelabs/stagent/pre-tool-use"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/hooks/jie-worldstatelabs/stagent/pre-tool-use.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>
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 unknown 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 7d 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 · 39 lines

The source is not reproduced here

No licence file

A repository with no LICENSE is all rights reserved by default, so the body is not copied here. The metadata, the measurements and the link are.

Read it on GitHub

Same file

What else hooks.json configures

This page is one entry in a file that holds 8. 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. 7d ago First seen · 39 lines scan A c4fdf1e52938

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PreToolUse is a hook published in the GitHub repository jie-worldstatelabs/stagent (25 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), with no licence file. 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.