NewsBlur: Hook for Claude Code

.claude/settings.json

PostToolUse is a hook for Claude Code from samuelclay/NewsBlur. Its token cost is not measured, scanned A, original, MIT.

An automatic step that runs after the agent finishes an MCP tool call. MCP is a standard way for an agent to use external tools and services.

In plain words
What is it for?
Processing responses from MCP tools after they complete, using the project's mcp-response-limit.py script.
Why use it?
It runs a response-size limiting script so MCP results can be kept within a manageable size.

Hook for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: PostToolUse hook event. Also seen: reads .claude/ paths.

This is samuelclay/NewsBlur's own configuration. It tells Claude Code how to work on NewsBlur itself, so it is not a mod to install elsewhere. Copy it as a starting point and replace the rules that are about this project. Everything NewsBlur configures →

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

About the project

NewsBlur is a personal RSS news reader and social network that displays stories, the original sites they come from, and tools for filtering and discussing them. Readers use it to follow subscriptions, train story preferences, search and tag articles, share reading, and optionally self-host the service. The catalogue entries provide commands, skills, instructions, hooks, and settings for working with the NewsBlur project.

samuelclay/NewsBlur · 7,680 stars · on GitHub · newsblur.com

Reuse

Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to samuelclay/NewsBlur. Take a copy, put it at the same path in your own repository, and replace the rules that are about this project with yours.

Copy the file
curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/samuelclay/NewsBlur/main/.claude/settings.json
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/samuelclay/NewsBlur

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. ✓ AI security review Fable 5.1 · 7 Sept 2026 📄 Read the review
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Security

Grade A, and why

PostToolUse 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 2mo 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.

.claude/settings.json · 13 lines

What it actually says

{
  "PostToolUse": [
    {
      "matcher": "mcp__*",
      "hooks": [
        {
          "type": "command",
          "command": ".claude/hooks/mcp-response-limit.py"
        }
      ]
    }
  ]
}
Same file

What else settings.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. 2mo ago First seen · 13 lines scan A c4329c210ab0

Subscribe to this mod's changes

PostToolUse is a hook published in the GitHub repository samuelclay/NewsBlur (7,680 stars, last pushed yesterday), 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 2026-08-30.

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PostToolUse compared with hooks from other repositories

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PostToolUsesamuelclay/NewsBlurHook7.7kyesterdayMITA—Claude Code
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PreToolUseanthropics/claude-cookbooksHook54k2d agoMITA—Claude Code
PostToolUseanthropics/claude-plugins-officialHook46kyesterdayApache-2.0A—Claude Code