PostToolUseFailure

PostToolUseFailure is a hook for coding agents from Lexxes-Projects/obey. Its token cost is not measured, scanned A, a copy of Notification, MIT.

A failure hook that runs a Bash script after a Bash, Write, Edit, or MultiEdit tool call fails.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to trigger failure logging, cleanup, notifications, or other recovery actions after these tool calls fail.
Why use it?
It provides an automatic response point for tool errors, so failed operations can be handled without manually checking after every command.

Hook

Runs only inside its plugin — its command needs a path that Claude Code sets for a plugin’s own hooks and for nothing else. Install the plugin, not this.

Part of the obey plugin — 3 skills, 1 agent, 16 hooks shipped together

One of 16 entries in hooks.json — they are configured in one file and arrive together.

Install

Getting it into your agent

This one installs as part of its plugin. Adding the marketplace and installing the plugin brings it with everything else the plugin ships.

Claude Code
/plugin marketplace add Lexxes-Projects/obey
Claude Code
/plugin install obey

Or install obey, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 3 skills, 1 agent, 16 hooks.

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When invoked not measured Not applicable: nothing here is loaded into a session.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin 63% copy Near-identical to another mod in the catalogue.
Security

Grade A, and why

PostToolUseFailure 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.

Origin

This is a copy

63% identical to Notification — 7 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.

hooks/hooks.json · 14 lines

What it actually says

{
  "PostToolUseFailure": [
    {
      "matcher": "Bash|Write|Edit|MultiEdit",
      "hooks": [
        {
          "type": "command",
          "command": "bash ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/scripts/post-tool-use-failure.sh",
          "timeout": 10
        }
      ]
    }
  ]
}
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 · 14 lines scan A d8399a3fdc99

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PostToolUseFailure is a hook published in the GitHub repository Lexxes-Projects/obey (1 stars, last pushed 5mo 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. It is 63% identical to Notification, differing in 7 lines, and is treated as a copy.