SubagentStart

SubagentStart is a hook for Claude Code from kouroshez/coding-os. Its token cost is not measured, scanned A, a copy of PreToolUse, Apache-2.0.

An automatic action that runs when a subagent starts and records that the agent is present.

In plain words
What is it for?
It is for tracking subagent activity in an agent-based development process.
Why use it?
It helps a multi-agent workflow know when a delegated coding agent has begun work.

Hook for Claude Code

One of 9 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/kouroshez/coding-os/subagent-start
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/kouroshez/coding-os

Made for: Claude Code.

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README.md
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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 75% copy Near-identical to another mod in the catalogue.
Security

Grade A, and why

SubagentStart 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 today.

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.

Origin

This is a copy

75% identical to PreToolUse — 276 lines differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.

tests/golden/claude_base/.claude/settings.json · 14 lines

What it actually says

{
  "SubagentStart": [
    {
      "matcher": "",
      "hooks": [
        {
          "type": "command",
          "command": "env COS_AGENT=claude \".claude/hooks/agent-presence.sh\"",
          "timeout": 5
        }
      ]
    }
  ]
}
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. today First seen · 14 lines scan A bc0be13dfca8

Subscribe to this mod's changes

SubagentStart is a hook published in the GitHub repository kouroshez/coding-os (6 stars, last pushed 3d 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. It is 75% identical to PreToolUse, differing in 276 lines, and is treated as a copy.