What is SessionStart?

A startup hook that runs a shell command when an agent session begins. It checks whether the Windows Terminal command-line tool is available and reports the session start if it is.

Starting session checks and sending session-start events to Windows Terminal's agent integration.

It lets the terminal tool notice new agent sessions automatically without manual setup each time.

SessionStart — Hook by microsoft

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/microsoft/intelligent-terminal/session-start

Clone the repo

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/microsoft/intelligent-terminal

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.

tools/wta/wt-agent-hooks/claude/wt-agent-hooks/hooks/hooks.json · 14 lines

What it actually says

{
  "SessionStart": [
    {
      "matcher": ".*",
      "hooks": [
        {
          "type": "command",
          "command": "command -v wtcli.exe >/dev/null 2>&1 && wtcli.exe agent-hook --cli-source claude --event agent.session.start; exit 0",
          "shell": "bash"
        }
      ]
    }
  ]
}

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.

yesterday First seen · 14 lines scan A 7916a11889e4

Subscribe to this mod's changes

SessionStart is a hook published in the GitHub repository microsoft/intelligent-terminal (1,895 stars, last pushed yesterday), 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.

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SessionStart

Getting it into your agent

Grade A, and why

Nothing flagged

What it actually says

What this file has done since we first saw it

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