PreToolUse

A group of automatic checks that runs before selected agent actions, such as editing files, applying patches, starting tasks, or running shell commands. The checks include planning review, test-lock, formatting, placement, and code-reference checks.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to enforce project rules around edits, tests, delegated work, plans, and command execution.
Why use it?
It catches process, testing, formatting, placement, and planning problems before the action proceeds.

Hook for Claude Code

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/sliamh11/deus/pre-tool-use
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/sliamh11/Deus

Made for: Claude Code.

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 50% 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

50% identical to SessionStart — 69 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.

.claude/settings.json · 74 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 74 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

{
  "PreToolUse": [
    {
      "matcher": "Write|Edit|MultiEdit|apply_patch|ExitPlanMode",
      "hooks": [
        {
          "type": "command",
          "command": "bash -c '\"${CLAUDE_PROJECT_DIR:-.}/.claude/hooks/warden-shim.sh\" plan-review-gate'",
          "timeout": 5
        },
        {
          "type": "command",
          "command": "bash -c '\"${CLAUDE_PROJECT_DIR:-.}/.claude/hooks/tdd-test-lock.sh\"'",
          "timeout": 3
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "matcher": "ExitPlanMode|Task|Agent",
      "hooks": [
        {
          "type": "command",
          "command": "bash -c '\"${CLAUDE_PROJECT_DIR:-.}/.claude/hooks/warden-shim.sh\" plan-mode-invalidator'",
          "timeout": 3
        },
        {
          "type": "command",
          "command": "bash -c '\"${CLAUDE_PROJECT_DIR:-.}/.claude/hooks/warden-shim.sh\" codegraph-cite-check'",
          "timeout": 5
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "matcher": "Write|apply_patch",
      "hooks": [
        {
          "type": "command",
          "command": "bash -c '\"${CLAUDE_PROJECT_DIR:-.}/.claude/hooks/warden-shim.sh\" placement-guard'",
          "timeout": 3
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "matcher": "Bash",
      "hooks": [
        {
          "type": "command",
          "command": "bash -c '\"${CLAUDE_PROJECT_DIR:-.}/.claude/hooks/warden-shim.sh\" code-review-gate'",
          "timeout": 5
        },
        {
          "type": "command",
          "command": "bash -c '\"${CLAUDE_PROJECT_DIR:-.}/.claude/hooks/warden-shim.sh\" ai-eng-gate'",
          "timeout": 5
        },
        {
          "type": "command",
          "command": "bash -c '\"${CLAUDE_PROJECT_DIR:-.}/.claude/hooks/warden-shim.sh\" verification-gate'",
          "timeout": 5
        },
        {
          "type": "command",
          "command": "bash -c '\"${CLAUDE_PROJECT_DIR:-.}/.claude/hooks/warden-shim.sh\" admin-merge-gate'",
          "timeout": 5
        },
        {
          "type": "command",
       

Read the full file on GitHub · 74 lines

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. 3d ago First seen · 74 lines scan A 5f7db726a03b

Subscribe to this mod's changes

PreToolUse is a hook published in the GitHub repository sliamh11/Deus (51 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 A with 0 findings. It is 50% identical to SessionStart, differing in 69 lines, and is treated as a copy.