SessionStart

A session-start hook that checks whether CTX's optional semantic-search service is running and starts it when needed. Semantic search finds related text by meaning, while BM25 searches matching words.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to start the vector search service at the beginning of a session and fall back to BM25-only mode when the required environment is not ready.
Why use it?
It keeps the optional search service available automatically and reports when only basic word-based search can be used.

Hook

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/pluto2060/ctx/session-start
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/pluto2060/CTX
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 yesterday.

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.

plugin/hooks/hooks.json · 14 lines

What it actually says

{
  "SessionStart": [
    {
      "matcher": "",
      "hooks": [
        {
          "type": "command",
          "command": "bash -c 'VD=$HOME/.local/share/claude-vault; PY=$VD/venv/bin/python; if [ -x \"$PY\" ] && $PY -c \"import sentence_transformers\" 2>/dev/null; then python3 -c \"import socket,os; s=socket.socket(socket.AF_UNIX); s.settimeout(0.3); s.connect(os.path.expanduser(\\\"~/.local/share/claude-vault/vec-daemon.sock\\\"))\" 2>/dev/null || { rm -f $VD/vec-daemon.sock; nohup $PY $VD/vec-daemon.py > /tmp/vec-daemon.log 2>&1 & }; if [ \"${CTX_BGE_ENABLE}\" = \"1\" ]; then python3 -c \"import socket,os; s=socket.socket(socket.AF_UNIX); s.settimeout(0.3); s.connect(os.path.expanduser(\\\"~/.local/share/claude-vault/bge-daemon.sock\\\"))\" 2>/dev/null || { rm -f $VD/bge-daemon.sock; nohup $PY $VD/bge-daemon.py > /tmp/bge-daemon.log 2>&1 & }; fi; else echo \"[CTX] vec-daemon venv not ready — BM25-only mode\" > /tmp/ctx-daemon-hint.txt; fi'",
          "async": true
        }
      ]
    }
  ]
}
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. yesterday First seen · 14 lines scan A bb688b8ed76e

Subscribe to this mod's changes

SessionStart is a hook published in the GitHub repository pluto2060/CTX (9 stars, last pushed 3mo 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.