PreToolUse

PreToolUse is a hook for Claude Code from sifxprime/kodelyth-ecc. Its token cost is not measured, scanned A, a copy of Stop, MIT.

A set of pre-tool hooks that run checks or scripts before selected Bash, Write, Edit, and MultiEdit actions.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to validate new Git branch names, block hook-bypass flags, auto-start development servers in tmux, and run the listed command hooks.
Why use it?
It can enforce branch naming, prevent bypassing Git hooks, start development servers, and apply other checks before changes or commands run.

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 8 entries in hooks.json — they are configured in one file and arrive together.

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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Origin 86% copy Near-identical to another mod 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 3d 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

86% identical to Stop — 126 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.

hooks/hooks.json · 140 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 140 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

{
  "PreToolUse": [
    {
      "matcher": "Bash",
      "hooks": [
        {
          "type": "command",
          "command": "node \"${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/scripts/hooks/branch-name-check.js\""
        }
      ],
      "description": "Kodelyth: Enforce conventional branch names (feat/, fix/, chore/, etc.) on git checkout -b and git switch -c",
      "id": "kodelyth:pre:bash:branch-name"
    },
    {
      "matcher": "Bash",
      "hooks": [
        {
          "type": "command",
          "command": "npx [email protected]"
        }
      ],
      "description": "Block git hook-bypass flag to protect pre-commit, commit-msg, and pre-push hooks from being skipped",
      "id": "pre:bash:block-no-verify"
    },
    {
      "matcher": "Bash",
      "hooks": [
        {
          "type": "command",
          "command": "node \"${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/scripts/hooks/auto-tmux-dev.js\""
        }
      ],
      "description": "Auto-start dev servers in tmux with directory-based session names",
      "id": "pre:bash:auto-tmux-dev"
    },
    {
      "matcher": "Bash",
      "hooks": [
        {
          "type": "command",
          "command": "node \"${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/scripts/hooks/run-with-flags.js\" \"pre:bash:tmux-reminder\" \"scripts/hooks/pre-bash-tmux-reminder.js\" \"strict\""
        }
      ],
      "description": "Reminder to use tmux for long-running commands",
      "id": "pre:bash:tmux-reminder"
    },
    {
      "matcher": "Bash",
      "hooks": [
        {
          "type": "command",
          "command": "node \"${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/scripts/hooks/run-with-flags.js\" \"pre:bash:git-push-reminder\" \"scripts/hooks/pre-bash-git-push-reminder.js\" \"strict\""
        }
      ],
      "description": "Reminder before git push to review changes",
      "id": "pre:bash:git-push-reminder"
    },
    {
      "matcher": "Bash",
      "hooks": [
        {
          "type": "command",
          "command": "node \"${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/scripts/hooks/run-with-flag

Read the full file on GitHub · 140 lines

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Changes

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  1. 3d ago First seen · 140 lines scan A e61b7801479e

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PreToolUse is a hook published in the GitHub repository sifxprime/kodelyth-ecc (11 stars, last pushed 4d 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. It is 86% identical to Stop, differing in 126 lines, and is treated as a copy.