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PreToolUse

PreToolUse is a hook for coding agents from mlawsonking/MCP. Its token cost is not measured, scanned A, original, MIT.

A hook that runs before the agent uses Bash, the command-line shell, and invokes Node.js to check packages. Hooks are automatic actions triggered by specific agent events.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to perform a pre-command package check whenever the agent is about to run a Bash tool call.
Why use it?
It provides a package check before shell commands run, so potential package problems can be caught early.

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 agent-guards plugin — 1 skill, 2 hooks shipped together

One of 2 entries in hooks.json — they are configured in one file and arrive together.

not rated 0 3d ago A scan tokens not measured original MIT
View the source file mlawsonking/MCP
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 mlawsonking/MCP
Claude Code
/plugin install agent-guards

Or install agent-guards, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 1 skill, 2 hooks.

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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 A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Security

Grade A, and why

PreToolUse 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 3d 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.

agent-guards-plugin/hooks/hooks.json · 18 lines

What it actually says

{
  "PreToolUse": [
    {
      "matcher": "Bash",
      "hooks": [
        {
          "type": "command",
          "command": "node",
          "args": [
            "${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/hooks/pre-bash.mjs"
          ],
          "timeout": 10,
          "statusMessage": "checking packages"
        }
      ]
    }
  ]
}
Same file

What else hooks.json configures

This page is one entry in a file that holds 2. 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. 3d ago First seen · 18 lines scan A 7e8e79667eee

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PreToolUse is a hook published in the GitHub repository mlawsonking/MCP (0 stars, last pushed 3d 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 2026-08-31.

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