OpenClaw is an AI assistant that runs on a user's own devices and connects to chat services such as Discord, Slack, Telegram, and WhatsApp. Individuals or teams use it for assistant tasks while keeping its state, memory, and credentials on their hardware and choosing the models or agent harnesses it uses. The catalogue entries are skills, agents, instructions, hooks, and settings that define or extend OpenClaw's workflow.
Borrowing it
Nothing to install: this file belongs to openclaw/openclaw. Take a copy, put it at the same path in your own repository, and replace the rules that are about this project with yours.
curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/openclaw/openclaw/main/.claude/settings.jsongit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/openclaw/openclawWrote this? Show the measurements
A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.
[](https://agentmods.dev/hooks/openclaw/openclaw/session-start)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/hooks/openclaw/openclaw/session-start"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/hooks/openclaw/openclaw/session-start/github.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/hooks/openclaw/openclaw/session-start"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/hooks/openclaw/openclaw/session-start.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>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 1mo 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.
What it actually says
{
"SessionStart": [
{
"matcher": "startup",
"hooks": [
{
"type": "command",
"command": "bash -c 'r=\"$(git rev-parse --show-toplevel 2>/dev/null)\"; [ -n \"$r\" ] && cd \"$r\" || exit 0; node scripts/worktree-setup.mjs source'",
"timeout": 10
}
]
}
]
}What else settings.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.
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.
- 1mo ago Changed b3d4b24ecdd9
- 1mo ago First seen · 14 lines scan A b57245772c2b
SessionStart is a hook published in the GitHub repository openclaw/openclaw (392,311 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. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.
Other hooks, from other repositories
PreToolUse
Runs before the agent uses a tool for Bash tool calls, running an inline shell check. From apache/superset.
PreToolUse
Runs before the agent uses a tool, executing pre-write.sh and pre-bash.sh (2 commands). From anthropics/claude-cookbooks.
PostToolUse
Runs after a tool call finishes for Bash tool calls, executing hooks.sh via sh (3 commands). From anthropics/claude-plugins-official.
PreCompact
Runs before the context is compacted for manual and auto tool calls, executing hook-handler.cjs via node (4 commands). From ruvnet/RuView.
SessionStart
Runs when a session starts, executing hook-handler.cjs and auto-memory-hook.mjs via node (2 commands). From ruvnet/RuView.
PreCompact
Runs before the context is compacted for manual and auto tool calls, running an inline shell check (2 commands). From ruvnet/ruflo.