Borrowing it
Nothing to install: this file belongs to johnlanda/agentic-coding-starter-kit. Take a copy, put it at the same path in your own repository, and replace the rules that are about this project with yours.
curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/johnlanda/agentic-coding-starter-kit/main/.claude/settings.jsongit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/johnlanda/agentic-coding-starter-kitWrote 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.
[](https://agentmods.dev/hooks/johnlanda/agentic-coding-starter-kit/pre-tool-use)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/hooks/johnlanda/agentic-coding-starter-kit/pre-tool-use"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/hooks/johnlanda/agentic-coding-starter-kit/pre-tool-use/github.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/hooks/johnlanda/agentic-coding-starter-kit/pre-tool-use"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/hooks/johnlanda/agentic-coding-starter-kit/pre-tool-use.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>Grade C, and why
PreToolUse scanned grade C with 1 finding 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 2mo 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.
Recursive force deletehighDestructive command
rm -rf with a variable or a broad path is one typo away from removing the wrong tree.
"command": "jq -r '.tool_input.command' | grep -qE '(rm -rf /|git push.*--force.*main|DROP TABLE|DROP DATABASE)' && echo '{\"hookSpecificOutput\":{\"hookEventName\":\"PreToolUse\",\"permissionDecision\":\"deny\",\"permis The source is not reproduced here
A licence we could not identify
The repository carries a LICENSE file, but it is custom or dual enough that GitHub cannot name it and neither can this catalogue. Unknown terms are not permission, so the body is not copied here. Read the licence at the source and decide for yourself.
What else settings.json configures
This page is one entry in a file that holds 3. Installing the file brings all of them; each is measured and scanned on its own page.
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.
- 2mo ago First seen · 24 lines scan C 45b2eb039625
PreToolUse is a hook published in the GitHub repository johnlanda/agentic-coding-starter-kit (3 stars, last pushed 6mo 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 C with 1 finding (recursive force delete). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-31.
Other hooks, from other repositories
SessionStart
Runs when a session starts on startup, executing install_pkgs.sh. From supabase/supabase.
PostToolUse
Runs after a tool call finishes for Write and Edit tool calls, executing format_and_lint.sh. From supabase/supabase.
SessionStart
Runs when a session starts, executing on-start.js via node. From google-gemini/gemini-cli.
PreToolUse
Runs before the agent uses a tool for Bash tool calls, running an inline shell check. From apache/superset.
PreToolUse
Runs before the agent uses a tool, executing pre-write.sh and pre-bash.sh (2 commands). From anthropics/claude-cookbooks.
PostToolUse
Runs after a tool call finishes for Bash tool calls, executing hooks.sh via sh (3 commands). From anthropics/claude-plugins-official.