SessionStart

SessionStart is a hook for Claude Code from RoninForge/budgetclaw. Its token cost is not measured, scanned C, original, MIT.

A session-start check that looks for the budgetclaw command-line program and reports when it is not installed.

In plain words
What is it for?
Checking the local setup and showing an installation instruction when budgetclaw cannot be found.
Why use it?
It tells you at the beginning of a Claude Code session whether the cost-tracking tool is available.

Hook for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: SessionStart hook event.

Part of the budgetclaw plugin — 1 skill, 1 hook shipped together

Good fit Checking the local setup and showing an installation instruction when budgetclaw cannot be found.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add hooks/roninforge/budgetclaw/session-start
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.

Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/RoninForge/budgetclaw

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install budgetclaw, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 1 skill, 1 hook.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

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agentmods badge for SessionStart

README.md
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Your own site
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Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.

agentmods 80×15 button for SessionStart

Your own site · 80×15
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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 C 2 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 C, and why

SessionStart scanned grade C with 2 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.

Downloads and executes remote codehighSupply chain

curl | sh runs whatever the server returns today, which is not necessarily what it returned when this was reviewed.

"command": "command -v budgetclaw >/dev/null 2>&1 && budgetclaw status 2>/dev/null || echo '[budgetclaw not installed - run: curl -fsSL https://roninforge.org/get | sh]'",

Makes network callslowCapability

Not a fault in itself. Listed so you know the mod talks to something, and to what.

"command": "command -v budgetclaw >/dev/null 2>&1 && budgetclaw status 2>/dev/null || echo '[budgetclaw not installed - run: curl -fsSL https://roninforge.org/get | sh]'",
plugin/hooks/hooks.json · 13 lines

What it actually says

{
  "SessionStart": [
    {
      "hooks": [
        {
          "type": "command",
          "command": "command -v budgetclaw >/dev/null 2>&1 && budgetclaw status 2>/dev/null || echo '[budgetclaw not installed - run: curl -fsSL https://roninforge.org/get | sh]'",
          "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. 1mo ago First seen · 13 lines scan C afcef5118e51

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SessionStart is a hook published in the GitHub repository RoninForge/budgetclaw (8 stars, last pushed 9d ago), licensed MIT. Its token cost is not measured: a hook is shell that never enters the context. A static security scan graded it C with 2 findings (downloads and executes remote code, makes network calls). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-31.