SessionStart

SessionStart is a hook for Claude Code from kreek/consult. Its token cost is not measured, scanned A, original, MIT.

A session-start reminder that tells the coding agent when to use the Consult workflow. It skips trivial questions and edits, but points the agent to that workflow for substantial coding tasks.

In plain words
What is it for?
It is for prompting agents before feature work, fixes, refactoring, debugging, tests, or configuration changes.
Why use it?
It helps prevent the agent from starting a non-trivial change without first following the project's required workflow.

Hook for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: SessionStart hook event.

Part of the consult plugin — 1 hook shipped together

Good fit It is for prompting agents before feature work, fixes, refactoring, debugging, tests, or configuration changes.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add hooks/kreek/consult/session-start
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/kreek/consult

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install consult, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 1 hook.

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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. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
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 13d 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.

plugin/hooks/hooks.json · 12 lines

What it actually says

{
  "SessionStart": [
    {
      "hooks": [
        {
          "type": "command",
          "command": "echo 'Consult is installed. When a request will change code, tests, config, or git history, load the consult:workflow skill before you read any files, then load each Consult skill its routing table matches before your first edit or commit. Skip Consult for typo and wording fixes, one-line edits that change no behavior, and questions that ask for no change.'"
        }
      ]
    }
  ]
}
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. 13d ago Changed 8969da562022
  2. 20d ago First seen · 12 lines scan A 0ac967cc8beb

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SessionStart is a hook published in the GitHub repository kreek/consult (1 stars, last pushed 14d ago), licensed MIT. 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 2026-09-26.