PreToolUse

PreToolUse is a hook for coding agents from tigerless-labs/autoharness. Its token cost is not measured, scanned A, original, MIT.

Checks that run before an agent reads files, uses skills, or changes files. They call an autoharness program, which can apply automated checks to those actions.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use them to run the same check before Skill and Read actions, and before creating or editing files with Write, Edit, MultiEdit, or NotebookEdit.
Why use it?
They provide an early checkpoint before potentially important file operations, helping enforce project-specific safeguards.

Hook

Runs only inside its plugin — its command needs a path that Claude Code sets for a plugin’s own hooks and for nothing else. Install the plugin, not this.

Part of the autoharness plugin — 1 skill, 2 agents, 4 hooks, 1 MCP server shipped together

One of 4 entries in hooks.json — they are configured in one file and arrive together.

About the project

Autoharness is a self-learning skill layer for Claude Code that distills skills from real work sessions, combines overlapping skills, updates them during use, and removes ones that are no longer used. It is for people who want Claude Code to maintain a working library of reusable skills as they work. The catalogue entries provide the hooks, agents, MCP integration, plugin, and skill that make up its workflow.

tigerless-labs/autoharness · 1,532 stars · on GitHub

Install

Getting it into your agent

This one installs as part of its plugin. Adding the marketplace and installing the plugin brings it with everything else the plugin ships.

Claude Code
/plugin marketplace add tigerless-labs/autoharness
Claude Code
/plugin install autoharness

Or install autoharness, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 1 skill, 2 agents, 4 hooks, 1 MCP server.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

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README.md
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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. Scan, not verified.
Origin original No closer match found 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 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.

hooks/hooks.json · 12 lines

What it actually says

{
  "PreToolUse": [
    {
      "hooks": [
        {
          "type": "command",
          "command": "PYTHONPATH=${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/src python3 -m autoharness.hook.dispatch"
        }
      ]
    }
  ]
}
Same file

What else hooks.json configures

This page is one entry in a file that holds 4. 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 Changed · -10 lines 7ca05f4e2fd0
  2. 6d ago First seen · 22 lines scan A c5168197709f

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PreToolUse is a hook published in the GitHub repository tigerless-labs/autoharness (1,532 stars, last pushed today), 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. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.