SessionStart

SessionStart is a hook for Claude Code from tradecatlabs/fatecat. Its token cost is not measured, scanned A, a copy of SessionStart, MIT.

A session-start hook runs a command when an agent session starts, is cleared, or is compacted. Session compaction shortens stored conversation context so work can continue.

In plain words
What is it for?
It is for running the referenced startup command when a session begins or its context is reset or compacted.
Why use it?
It allows setup or recovery actions to happen automatically at important session transitions.

Hook for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT} variable.

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 Master-skill-main plugin — 19 skills, 1 hook shipped together

Good fit It is for running the referenced startup command when a session begins or its context is reset or compacted.

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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 tradecatlabs/fatecat
Claude Code
/plugin install Master-skill-main

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install Master-skill-main, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 19 skills, 1 hook.

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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 86% copy Near-identical to another mod 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 1mo 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

86% identical to SessionStart — 1 line 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.

tools/reference-repos/github/Master-skill-main/hooks/hooks.json · 14 lines

What it actually says

{
  "SessionStart": [
    {
      "matcher": "startup|clear|compact",
      "hooks": [
        {
          "type": "command",
          "command": "\"${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/hooks/run-hook.cmd\" session-start",
          "async": false
        }
      ]
    }
  ]
}
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. 1mo ago First seen · 14 lines scan A 5d3b0000f9a6

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SessionStart is a hook published in the GitHub repository tradecatlabs/fatecat (202 stars, last pushed 1mo 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 86% identical to SessionStart, differing in 1 line, and is treated as a copy.