PreToolUse

PreToolUse is a hook for Claude Code from jsohi/app-trading-engine. Its token cost is not measured, scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A set of pre-tool hooks that checks whether required planning, review, testing, and project-specific rules are satisfied before certain agent actions.

In plain words
What is it for?
It validates plan exits, task completion, shell commands, pull-request pushes, and review requirements before allowing those actions.
Why use it?
It stops work from being marked complete or pushed when required design reviews, tests, or conventions have not been followed.

Hook for Claude Code

One of 3 entries in settings.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/jsohi/app-trading-engine/pre-tool-use
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/jsohi/app-trading-engine

Made for: Claude Code.

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Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
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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 4d 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.

.claude/settings.json · 61 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 61 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

{
  "PreToolUse": [
    {
      "matcher": "ExitPlanMode",
      "hooks": [
        {
          "type": "command",
          "command": "$CLAUDE_PROJECT_DIR/.claude/hooks/enforce-plan-design-before-exit.sh",
          "timeout": 5,
          "statusMessage": "Checking plan design gate (Plan-agent marker)..."
        },
        {
          "type": "command",
          "command": "$CLAUDE_PROJECT_DIR/.claude/hooks/enforce-plan-review-before-exit.sh",
          "timeout": 5,
          "statusMessage": "Checking plan review gate (marker file)..."
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "matcher": "TaskUpdate",
      "hooks": [
        {
          "type": "command",
          "command": "$CLAUDE_PROJECT_DIR/.claude/hooks/enforce-review-before-complete.sh",
          "timeout": 5,
          "statusMessage": "Checking review + test gates before task completion..."
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "matcher": "Bash",
      "hooks": [
        {
          "type": "command",
          "command": "$CLAUDE_PROJECT_DIR/.claude/hooks/pre-tool-use.sh",
          "timeout": 5,
          "statusMessage": "Checking Linear issue convention..."
        },
        {
          "type": "command",
          "command": "$CLAUDE_PROJECT_DIR/.claude/hooks/enforce-review-before-push.sh",
          "timeout": 5,
          "statusMessage": "Checking review + E2E gate..."
        },
        {
          "type": "command",
          "command": "$CLAUDE_PROJECT_DIR/.claude/hooks/enforce-review-after-gemini.sh",
          "timeout": 5,
          "statusMessage": "Checking post-Gemini /review gate..."
        },
        {
          "type": "prompt",
          "prompt": "Check if this Bash command is: (1) a git push to main — if it pushes directly to main (e.g. 'git push origin main', or 'git push' while on main branch), BLOCK it with 'No direct pushes to main — all changes must go via PRs'. (2) a git commit — verify the FULL command text contains 'APP-{N}: ' where N is a number (Linear issue reference)

Read the full file on GitHub · 61 lines

Same file

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.

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. 4d ago First seen · 61 lines scan A 6baf1690b6c7

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PreToolUse is a hook published in the GitHub repository jsohi/app-trading-engine (2 stars, last pushed 3mo 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 2026-08-31.