Borrowing it
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[](https://agentmods.dev/hooks/statecrafting/spec-spine/pre-tool-use)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/hooks/statecrafting/spec-spine/pre-tool-use"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/hooks/statecrafting/spec-spine/pre-tool-use/github.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>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.
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/hooks/statecrafting/spec-spine/pre-tool-use"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/hooks/statecrafting/spec-spine/pre-tool-use.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>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 yesterday.
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.
How it starts
The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 13 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
{
"PreToolUse": [
{
"matcher": "Bash",
"hooks": [
{
"type": "command",
"command": "command -v jq >/dev/null 2>&1 || { echo '[hook] jq missing, push gate and PR gate skipped'; exit 0; }\npayload=$(cat)\ncmd=$(printf '%s' \"$payload\" | jq -r '.tool_input.command // empty' 2>/dev/null)\nhookcwd=$(printf '%s' \"$payload\" | jq -r '.cwd // empty' 2>/dev/null)\n# The repo the command acts on, NOT the session's project: a multi-repo session\n# pushes and opens PRs in whichever tree the command names. Honour an explicit\n# `cd <dir>` prefix, else the hook's own cwd, then ask git for the toplevel.\ntarget=$(printf '%s' \"$cmd\" | sed -n 's/^[[:space:]]*cd[[:space:]]\\{1,\\}\\([^&;|]*\\).*/\\1/p' | head -1 | sed 's/[[:space:]]*$//')\ntarget=$(printf '%s' \"$target\" | sed \"s|^~|$HOME|\")\n[ -n \"$target\" ] || target=\"$hookcwd\"\n[ -n \"$target\" ] || target=.\nroot=$(git -C \"$target\" rev-parse --show-toplevel 2>/dev/null) || root=\"$target\"\n\ncase \"$cmd\" in\n *'git push'*)\n br=$(git -C \"$root\" branch --show-current 2>/dev/null); blk=0\n case \"$cmd\" in *'origin main'|*'origin main '*|*'HEAD:main'|*'HEAD:main '*|*':main'|*':main '*|*'origin +main'*) blk=1 ;; esac\n [ \"$br\" = main ] && blk=1\n if [ \"$blk\" = 1 ]; then\n { echo \"[push-gate] BLOCKED: pushing to main is refused (repo: $root, branch: ${br:-unknown}). Work on a feature branch and open a PR through /ship.\"; } >&2\n exit 2\n fi ;;\nesac\n\ncase \"$cmd\" in 'gh pr create'*|*'&& gh pr create'*|*'; gh pr create'*) ;; *) exit 0 ;; esac\n# Resolve the spec-spine binary for the repository this hook acts on:\n# $SPEC_SPINE_BIN, then that repository's own release build, then PATH. A repo\n# that builds its own binary must be governed by the one it builds; the PATH\n# fallback keeps an adopter on the published CLI working (spec 051).\nspec_spine_bin() {\n if [ -n \"${SPEC_SPINE_BIN:-}\" ] && [ -x \"${SPEC_SPINE_BIN}\" ]; then echo \"${SWhat else settings.json configures
This page is one entry in a file that holds 5. Installing the file brings all of them; each is measured and scanned on its own page.
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.
- yesterday First seen · 13 lines scan A 38cbac04a703
PreToolUse is a hook published in the GitHub repository statecrafting/spec-spine (10 stars, last pushed today), licensed Apache-2.0. 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 2026-09-07.
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PostToolUse
Runs after a tool call finishes for Write and Edit tool calls, executing format_and_lint.sh. From supabase/supabase.
SessionStart
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SessionStart
Runs when a session starts, executing on-start.js via node. From google-gemini/gemini-cli.
PreToolUse
Runs before the agent uses a tool for Bash tool calls, running an inline shell check. From apache/superset.
PreToolUse
Runs before the agent uses a tool, executing pre-write.sh and pre-bash.sh (2 commands). From anthropics/claude-cookbooks.
PreCompact
Runs before the context is compacted for manual and auto tool calls, executing hook-handler.cjs via node (4 commands). From ruvnet/RuView.