PreToolUse

PreToolUse is a hook for Claude Code from SergeiGorbatiuk/startup-superpowers. Its token cost is not measured, scanned A, original, GPL-3.0.

A hook that runs before the coding agent uses tools for web searches, reading, writing, or editing files. It executes a startup approval script before those actions.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to run the startup approval process before WebSearch, WebFetch, Read, Write, Edit, or apply_patch calls.
Why use it?
It adds a checkpoint before actions that can access information or change files. The input does not specify any further behavior.

Hook for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the startup-superpowers plugin — 9 skills, 4 agents, 2 hooks shipped together

One of 2 entries in hooks.json — they are configured in one file and arrive together.

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/sergeigorbatiuk/startup-superpowers/pre-tool-use
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/SergeiGorbatiuk/startup-superpowers

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install startup-superpowers, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 9 skills, 4 agents, 2 hooks.

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README.md
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Your own site
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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. Scan, not verified.
Origin unknown 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.

hooks/hooks.json · 24 lines

The source is not reproduced here

Licensed GPL-3.0

The repository is licensed GPL-3.0, which this catalogue does not treat as permission to reproduce the file. Read it at the source.

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Same file

What else hooks.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. 6d ago First seen · 24 lines scan A 9873f79568b2

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PreToolUse is a hook published in the GitHub repository SergeiGorbatiuk/startup-superpowers (24 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed GPL-3.0. 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. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.