SessionStart

A session-start hook that prints project reminders after the agent compacts its conversation history. The reminders cover the package manager, code structure, naming, styling, IPC changes, and automatic edit checks.

In plain words
What is it for?
Re-establishing project-specific rules after compaction, including pnpm usage, Electron process boundaries, path aliases, naming, state patterns, and protected files.
Why use it?
It restores important project conventions after earlier conversation details have been shortened or removed. This helps later work continue with the same assumptions.

Hook for Claude Code

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/matt1398/claude-devtools/session-start
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/matt1398/claude-devtools

Made for: Claude Code.

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 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 yesterday.

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 · 13 lines

What it actually says

{
  "SessionStart": [
    {
      "matcher": "compact",
      "hooks": [
        {
          "type": "command",
          "command": "echo '[Post-compaction context reminder]\n- Package manager: pnpm only (not npm/yarn)\n- Path aliases: @main/*, @renderer/*, @shared/*, @preload/*\n- Electron 3-process: main/ (Node), preload/ (bridge), renderer/ (React), shared/ (cross-process)\n- isMeta: false = real user message, true = internal/system message\n- Chunk types: UserChunk, AIChunk, SystemChunk, CompactChunk\n- State: Zustand slices pattern (data, selectedId, loading, error)\n- Styling: Tailwind with CSS variables (bg-surface, text-text, border-border)\n- Naming: PascalCase services/components, camelCase utils, UPPER_SNAKE constants\n- Barrel exports: import from domain index.ts\n- New IPC: channel in preload/constants → handler in main/ipc → method in preload/index.ts\n- PostToolUse hook auto-runs eslint+prettier on edited files\n- PreToolUse hook blocks edits to pnpm-lock.yaml, .env, dist/, node_modules/'"
        }
      ]
    }
  ]
}
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. yesterday First seen · 13 lines scan A f6c4e98c6d8c

Subscribe to this mod's changes

SessionStart is a hook published in the GitHub repository matt1398/claude-devtools (3,885 stars, last pushed 3mo 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 2026-08-30.