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PreToolUse

PreToolUse is a hook for Claude Code from rico2035/security-skills. Its token cost is not measured, scanned A, original, MIT.

A pre-edit security check that runs a Python script before the agent edits, writes, or changes notebook files.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to run security_hook.py before Edit, Write, MultiEdit, or NotebookEdit operations.
Why use it?
It checks proposed file changes before they happen, adding a security gate to common editing actions.

Hook for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT} variable. Also seen: names the NotebookEdit tool.

Runs only inside its plugin — its command needs a path that Claude Code sets for a plugin’s own hooks and for nothing else. Install the plugin, not this.

Part of the security-audit plugin — 8 skills, 1 command, 1 hook shipped together

not rated 5repo 5d ago A scan tokens not measured original MIT

Good fit Use it to run security_hook.py before Edit, Write, MultiEdit, or NotebookEdit operations.

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Install

Getting it into your agent

This one installs as part of its plugin. Adding the marketplace and installing the plugin brings it with everything else the plugin ships.

Claude Code
/plugin marketplace add rico2035/security-skills
Claude Code
/plugin install security-audit

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install security-audit, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 8 skills, 1 command, 1 hook.

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README.md
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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 original No closer match found 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 6d 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.

plugins/security-audit/hooks/hooks.json · 13 lines

What it actually says

{
  "PreToolUse": [
    {
      "matcher": "Edit|Write|MultiEdit|NotebookEdit",
      "hooks": [
        {
          "type": "command",
          "command": "python3 \"${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/hooks/security_hook.py\""
        }
      ]
    }
  ]
}
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. 6d ago First seen · 13 lines scan A 9f41d13bc773

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PreToolUse is a hook published in the GitHub repository rico2035/security-skills (5 stars, last pushed 5d 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.

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