PreToolUse

Pre-tool hooks that run checks before file edits or skill use. They call scripts that guard markers and rules, verify changes, and control access to skills.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use them to validate edits, protect required markers and invariants, verify changes, and check whether a requested skill may run.
Why use it?
They catch invalid or unsafe actions before an edit or skill starts, helping enforce project requirements automatically.

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/raisedadead/claude-code-plugins/pre-tool-use
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/raisedadead/claude-code-plugins
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 84% copy Near-identical to another mod in the catalogue.
Security

Grade A, and why

PreToolUse 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.

Origin

This is a copy

84% identical to PreToolUse — 20 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.

plugins/dossier/hooks/hooks.json · 34 lines

What it actually says

{
  "PreToolUse": [
    {
      "matcher": "Edit|Write|MultiEdit",
      "hooks": [
        {
          "type": "command",
          "command": "python3 \"${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}\"/hooks/marker_guard.py",
          "timeout": 5
        },
        {
          "type": "command",
          "command": "python3 \"${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}\"/hooks/invariant_guard.py",
          "timeout": 5
        },
        {
          "type": "command",
          "command": "python3 \"${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}\"/hooks/verify_hook.py",
          "timeout": 10
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "matcher": "Skill",
      "hooks": [
        {
          "type": "command",
          "command": "python3 \"${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}\"/hooks/skill_gate.py",
          "timeout": 5
        }
      ]
    }
  ]
}
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 · 34 lines scan A 1ae9a0dc9620

Subscribe to this mod's changes

PreToolUse is a hook published in the GitHub repository raisedadead/claude-code-plugins (2 stars, last pushed 6d ago), licensed ISC. 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 84% identical to PreToolUse, differing in 20 lines, and is treated as a copy.