payload: Hook for Claude Code

.claude/settings.json

PostToolUse is a hook for Claude Code from payloadcms/payload. Its token cost is not measured, scanned A, original, MIT.

A post-tool hook configuration that runs a shell script after a Write tool call finishes. The script formats files after they are written.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to apply the repository's post-write formatting step after file-writing operations.
Why use it?
It keeps written changes formatted automatically, reducing the need to run formatting separately and helping prevent inconsistent file style.

Hook for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: PostToolUse hook event. Also seen: reads .claude/ paths.

This is payloadcms/payload's own configuration. It tells Claude Code how to work on payload itself, so it is not a mod to install elsewhere. Copy it as a starting point and replace the rules that are about this project. Everything payload configures →

One of 2 entries in settings.json upstream. Installing this one merges just its entry into your config; the other 1 are separate, each on its own page.

About the project

Payload is an open-source, full-stack framework for Next.js that provides a TypeScript backend and an administration panel for managing application data and content. Developers use it as a headless content management system or as the backend and application framework for their own projects. The catalogue add-ons help agents work with Payload projects and their development workflows.

payloadcms/payload · 45,565 stars · on GitHub · payloadcms.com

Reuse

Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to payloadcms/payload. Take a copy, put it at the same path in your own repository, and replace the rules that are about this project with yours.

Copy the file
curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/payloadcms/payload/main/.claude/settings.json
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/payloadcms/payload

Made for: Claude Code.

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When invoked not measured Not applicable: nothing here is loaded into a session.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe. ✓ AI security review Fable 5.1 · 7 Sept 2026 📄 Read the review
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Security

Grade A, and why

PostToolUse 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.

.claude/settings.json · 13 lines

What it actually says

{
  "PostToolUse": [
    {
      "matcher": "Write",
      "hooks": [
        {
          "type": "command",
          "command": ".claude/hooks/post-write-format.sh"
        }
      ]
    }
  ]
}
Same file

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.

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. 1mo ago First seen · 13 lines scan A 36d02e13fb4b

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PostToolUse is a hook published in the GitHub repository payloadcms/payload (45,565 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.