spec-spine: Hook for Claude Code

.claude/settings.json

SessionStart is a hook for Claude Code from statecrafting/spec-spine. Its token cost is not measured, scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

An automatic check that runs when a coding session starts or resumes and verifies that generated spec data matches the source files.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it in spec-spine repositories to run a read-only compilation consistency check at session startup.
Why use it?
It can expose stale generated files early, before work continues on an inconsistent project state.

Hook for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: ${CLAUDE_PROJECT_DIR variable. Also seen: positional $N argument.

This is statecrafting/spec-spine's own configuration. It tells Claude Code how to work on spec-spine 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 spec-spine configures →

One of 5 entries in settings.json upstream. Installing this one merges just its entry into your config; the other 4 are separate, each on its own page.

Reuse

Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to statecrafting/spec-spine. 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/statecrafting/spec-spine/main/.claude/settings.json
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/statecrafting/spec-spine

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.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Security

Grade A, and why

SessionStart 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 today.

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

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.

{
  "SessionStart": [
    {
      "matcher": "startup|resume|clear|compact",
      "hooks": [
        {
          "type": "command",
          "command": "cd \"${CLAUDE_PROJECT_DIR:-.}\" 2>/dev/null || exit 0\n[ -d specs ] || exit 0\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 \"${SPEC_SPINE_BIN}\" ]; then echo \"${SPEC_SPINE_BIN}\"; return 0; fi\n  if [ -x \"$1/target/release/spec-spine\" ]; then echo \"$1/target/release/spec-spine\"; return 0; fi\n  command -v spec-spine 2>/dev/null\n}\nif sc=$(spec_spine_bin \"${CLAUDE_PROJECT_DIR:-.}\") && [ -n \"$sc\" ]; then\n  # Spec 063: establish the binary understands the flag BEFORE reading its exit\n  # code. A binary predating `compile --check` rejects the unknown flag, and\n  # clap spent exit 2 on that, which is the code this tool spends on staleness.\n  # A session told its shards are stale when they are not will regenerate and\n  # commit artifacts that were already correct. `--version` is answered by every\n  # binary ever released, so asking is safe against any version.\n  ver=$(\"$sc\" --version 2>/dev/null | awk '{print $NF}')\n  if ! \"$sc\" compile --check --help >/dev/null 2>&1; then\n    reg=\"spec-spine ${ver:-?} predates \\`compile --check\\`, rebuild or reinstall (see /setup)\"\n    idx=\"$reg\"\n  else\n  # Read-only: `compile --check` compares the committed shards to the corpus\n  # without writing (spec 031). A bare `compile` would repair a stale\n  # committed tree as a side effect of reading it, hiding the defect.\n  \"$sc\" compile --check >/dev/null 2>&1; c=$?\n  case $c in\n    0) reg='fresh' ;;\n    2) reg='STALE, run spec-spine compile and commit the shards' ;;\n    1) reg='INVALID,

Read the full file on GitHub · 13 lines

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What else settings.json configures

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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. today Changed afef91d2b06a
  2. yesterday First seen · 13 lines scan A 741009c38ac5

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SessionStart 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.