spec-spine: Hook for Claude Code

.claude/settings.json

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

An end-of-response hook that runs a shell check in projects using spec-spine, a tool for managing project specifications and codebase indexes. It checks whether the index may be stale without writing changes.

In plain words
What is it for?
It helps detect index staleness after an agent response and reports when the required spec-spine tool is unavailable.
Why use it?
A finished session can leave generated project data out of date, and automatically rewriting it could make the working tree dirty.

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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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

Stop 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.

.claude/settings.json · 13 lines

What it actually says

{
  "Stop": [
    {
      "matcher": "*",
      "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 \"$1/target/release/spec-spine\"; return 0; fi\n  command -v spec-spine 2>/dev/null\n}\nsc=$(spec_spine_bin \"${CLAUDE_PROJECT_DIR:-.}\") || sc=''\n[ -n \"$sc\" ] || { echo '[codebase-index] spec-spine absent, staleness check skipped (run /setup)'; exit 0; }\n# Read-only by design. A session that has ended cannot commit a regenerated\n# index, so writing one here leaves .derived/ dirty; an orchestrator that\n# refuses to start a session on a dirty tree then never starts one, and the\n# pipeline stalls on dirt it produced itself.\n\"$sc\" index check >/dev/null 2>&1 && exit 0\necho '[codebase-index] STALE: run `spec-spine index` and commit the regenerated shards with the change that made them stale.'\necho '[codebase-index] Not regenerated here: a write at session end leaves .derived/ uncommitted, and the next run refuses a dirty tree.'\ntrue"
        }
      ]
    }
  ]
}
Same file

What 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.

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. yesterday First seen · 13 lines scan A 07089c1c47d3

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Stop 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.