PreToolUse

PreToolUse is a hook for Claude Code from let-sunny/canicode. Its token cost is not measured, scanned C, original, MIT.

A safety check that runs before the agent uses a Bash command, where Bash is a tool for running shell commands.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to prevent commands such as rm -rf, git reset --hard, forced Git pushes, forced cleanup, and npm or pnpm publishing.
Why use it?
It blocks commands that could delete files, rewrite Git history, force-push changes, or publish packages unexpectedly.

Hook for Claude Code

Part of the canicode plugin — 3 skills, 3 commands, 3 hooks, 2 MCP servers shipped together

One of 4 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/let-sunny/canicode/pre-tool-use
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/let-sunny/canicode

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install canicode, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 3 skills, 3 commands, 3 hooks, 2 MCP servers.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

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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 C 1 finding. Scan, not verified.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Security

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 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.

Recursive force deletehighDestructive command

rm -rf with a variable or a broad path is one typo away from removing the wrong tree.

"command": "CMD=$(echo \"$TOOL_INPUT\" | head -1); if echo \"$CMD\" | grep -qE '^\\s*rm\\s+.*-[a-zA-Z]*r[a-zA-Z]*f|^\\s*rm\\s+.*-[a-zA-Z]*f[a-zA-Z]*r'; then echo 'BLOCKED: rm -rf'; exit 2; fi; if echo \"$CMD\" | grep -qE
.claude/settings.json · 13 lines

What it actually says

{
  "PreToolUse": [
    {
      "matcher": "Bash",
      "hooks": [
        {
          "type": "command",
          "command": "CMD=$(echo \"$TOOL_INPUT\" | head -1); if echo \"$CMD\" | grep -qE '^\\s*rm\\s+.*-[a-zA-Z]*r[a-zA-Z]*f|^\\s*rm\\s+.*-[a-zA-Z]*f[a-zA-Z]*r'; then echo 'BLOCKED: rm -rf'; exit 2; fi; if echo \"$CMD\" | grep -qE '^\\s*git\\s+push\\s+.*--force|^\\s*git\\s+push\\s+-f'; then echo 'BLOCKED: git push --force'; exit 2; fi; if echo \"$CMD\" | grep -qE '^\\s*git\\s+reset\\s+--hard'; then echo 'BLOCKED: git reset --hard'; exit 2; fi; if echo \"$CMD\" | grep -qE '^\\s*git\\s+clean\\s+.*-[a-zA-Z]*f'; then echo 'BLOCKED: git clean -f'; exit 2; fi; if echo \"$CMD\" | grep -qE '^\\s*(npm|pnpm)\\s+publish'; then echo 'BLOCKED: npm/pnpm publish (CI only, see ADR-007)'; exit 2; fi"
        }
      ]
    }
  ]
}
Same file

What else settings.json configures

This page is one entry in a file that holds 4. 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 · 13 lines scan C 9e701cfee3ad

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PreToolUse is a hook published in the GitHub repository let-sunny/canicode (10 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. 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.