SubagentStart

SubagentStart is a hook for Claude Code from PolicyEngine/policyengine-claude. Its token cost is not measured, scanned A, a copy of SessionStart, MIT.

A startup hook that runs a Python script whenever a coding-agent subagent begins. A hook is an automatic action triggered by an event.

In plain words
What is it for?
Loading development context when subagents start, using the configured plugin script and a five-second timeout.
Why use it?
It ensures the model-development context script runs at the start of each subagent session without a separate manual command.

Hook for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT} variable.

Runs only inside a plugin — its command needs a path that Claude Code sets for a plugin’s own hooks and for nothing else, and the catalogue could not identify which plugin ships it.

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

Good fit Loading development context when subagents start, using the configured plugin script and a five-second timeout.

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Install

Getting it into your agent

There is no command for this one: it runs only inside a plugin, and the catalogue could not identify which plugin ships it. The source is linked below.

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.
Origin 89% copy Near-identical to another mod in the catalogue.
Security

Grade A, and why

SubagentStart 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 2d 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.

Origin

This is a copy

89% identical to SessionStart — 2 lines differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.

hooks/hooks.json · 13 lines

What it actually says

{
  "SubagentStart": [
    {
      "hooks": [
        {
          "type": "command",
          "command": "python3 \"${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/hooks/model-development-context.py\"",
          "timeout": 5
        }
      ]
    }
  ]
}
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. 2d ago First seen · 13 lines scan A 1a2e5e07cd6e

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SubagentStart is a hook published in the GitHub repository PolicyEngine/policyengine-claude (32 stars, last pushed 2d 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. It is 89% identical to SessionStart, differing in 2 lines, and is treated as a copy.