PostToolUseFailure

PostToolUseFailure is a hook for Claude Code from mikeparcewski/wicked-garden. Its token cost is not measured, scanned A, a copy of PostToolUse, MIT.

A hook that runs a Python script after a tool call fails. A tool call is a request from the agent to run an external command or service.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to trigger the plugin’s post-tool failure lifecycle action after an unsuccessful tool call.
Why use it?
It creates an automatic response point for failures, so they can be recorded or handled consistently.

Hook for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT} variable.

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 wicked-garden plugin — 148 skills, 5 commands, 1 agent, 13 hooks shipped together

One of 12 entries in hooks.json upstream. Installing this one merges just its entry into your config; the other 11 are separate, each on its own page.

Good fit Use it to trigger the plugin’s post-tool failure lifecycle action after an unsuccessful tool call.

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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 mikeparcewski/wicked-garden
Claude Code
/plugin install wicked-garden

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install wicked-garden, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 148 skills, 5 commands, 1 agent, 13 hooks.

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Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
Origin 92% 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 10d 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

92% identical to PostToolUse — 68 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": "*",
      "hooks": [
        {
          "type": "command",
          "command": "python3 \"${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/hooks/scripts/invoke.py\" post_tool || python \"${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/hooks/scripts/invoke.py\" post_tool || py -3 \"${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/hooks/scripts/invoke.py\" post_tool",
          "timeout": 3000
        }
      ]
    }
  ]
}
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. 10d ago First seen · 14 lines scan A eb00e046e950

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PostToolUseFailure is a hook published in the GitHub repository mikeparcewski/wicked-garden (9 stars, last pushed today), 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 92% identical to PostToolUse, differing in 68 lines, and is treated as a copy.