PostToolUseFailure

PostToolUseFailure is a hook for Claude Code from RetainDB/RetainDB. Its token cost is not measured, scanned A, a copy of PostToolUseFailure, Apache-2.0.

A hook configuration that runs a JavaScript program after another tool call fails. A hook is an automatic action triggered by a particular event.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to trigger post-tool-failure.mjs whenever a tool call reports an error.
Why use it?
It provides a defined place to handle tool errors after they occur instead of leaving failures without follow-up processing.

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 12 entries in hooks.json upstream. Installing this one merges just its entry into your config; the other 11 are separate, each on its own page.

Good fit Use it to trigger post-tool-failure.mjs whenever a tool call reports an error.

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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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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. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
Origin 100% copy Near-identical to another mod in the catalogue.
Security

Grade A, and why

PostToolUseFailure 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.

Origin

This is a copy

100% identical to PostToolUseFailure — 0 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.

packages/local/plugin/hooks/hooks.json · 12 lines

What it actually says

{
  "PostToolUseFailure": [
    {
      "hooks": [
        {
          "type": "command",
          "command": "node \"${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/scripts/post-tool-failure.mjs\""
        }
      ]
    }
  ]
}
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 · 12 lines scan A a68b8463eccf

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PostToolUseFailure is a hook published in the GitHub repository RetainDB/RetainDB (56 stars, last pushed 4mo ago), licensed Apache-2.0. 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 100% identical to PostToolUseFailure, differing in 0 lines, and is treated as a copy.