SessionStart

SessionStart is a hook for Claude Code from noviq-ai/google-ads-mcp. Its token cost is not measured, scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A session-start hook that checks whether Google Ads credentials are configured and whether the credentials file exists. It runs at startup and when a session is compacted.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it in projects that use noviq-ai's Google Ads MCP integration, which connects an agent to Google Ads data.
Why use it?
It warns early when the agent may not be able to access the Google Ads service because required credentials are missing or misplaced.

Hook for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: SessionStart hook event.

Part of the google-ads-mcp plugin — 2 skills, 1 agent, 1 hook, 1 MCP server shipped together

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/noviq-ai/google-ads-mcp/session-start
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/noviq-ai/google-ads-mcp

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install google-ads-mcp, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 2 skills, 1 agent, 1 hook, 1 MCP server.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

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README.md
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Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/hooks/noviq-ai/google-ads-mcp/session-start"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/hooks/noviq-ai/google-ads-mcp/session-start.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>
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 5d 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.

hooks/hooks.json · 22 lines

What it actually says

{
  "SessionStart": [
    {
      "matcher": "startup",
      "hooks": [
        {
          "type": "command",
          "command": "if [ -z \"$GOOGLE_APPLICATION_CREDENTIALS\" ]; then echo '[google-ads-mcp] Warning: GOOGLE_APPLICATION_CREDENTIALS is not set. Run: export GOOGLE_APPLICATION_CREDENTIALS=/path/to/service-account.json' >&2; elif [ ! -f \"$GOOGLE_APPLICATION_CREDENTIALS\" ]; then echo \"[google-ads-mcp] Warning: Service account file not found at $GOOGLE_APPLICATION_CREDENTIALS\" >&2; fi"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "matcher": "compact",
      "hooks": [
        {
          "type": "command",
          "command": "echo 'Google Ads MCP context: Use list_accessible_customers to get customer IDs, then search tool with GAQL queries. cost_micros / 1000000 = currency amount. Read-only API (no write operations).'"
        }
      ]
    }
  ]
}
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. 5d ago First seen · 22 lines scan A b4e1a11ecdff

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SessionStart is a hook published in the GitHub repository noviq-ai/google-ads-mcp (0 stars, last pushed 5mo ago), licensed Apache-2.0. 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.