PreToolUse

Pre-tool hooks that run before selected commands and agent actions.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use them to enforce repository and workflow safeguards before tools modify code or project state.
Why use it?
They check rules around Git operations, pushing, branches, commits, worktrees, and allowed tool use before actions begin.

Hook

Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

agentmods
npx agentmods add hooks/trustmybot/plugin/pre-tool-use
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/trustmybot/plugin
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 66% copy Near-identical to another mod 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.

Origin

This is a copy

66% identical to SessionStart — 149 lines 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.

hooks/hooks.json · 154 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 154 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

{
  "PreToolUse": [
    {
      "matcher": "Bash",
      "hooks": [
        {
          "type": "command",
          "command": "${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/scripts/hooks/git-guards.sh",
          "timeout": 10
        },
        {
          "type": "command",
          "command": "${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/scripts/hooks/git-push-guard.sh",
          "timeout": 5
        },
        {
          "type": "command",
          "command": "${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/scripts/hooks/swe-boundary.sh",
          "timeout": 5
        },
        {
          "type": "command",
          "command": "${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/scripts/hooks/no-worktree-branch-create.sh",
          "timeout": 5
        },
        {
          "type": "command",
          "command": "${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/scripts/hooks/stay-on-base-guard.sh",
          "timeout": 5
        },
        {
          "type": "command",
          "command": "${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/scripts/hooks/branch-up-to-date-with-remote.sh",
          "timeout": 15
        },
        {
          "type": "command",
          "command": "${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/scripts/hooks/commit-msg-lint.sh",
          "timeout": 3
        },
        {
          "type": "command",
          "command": "${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/scripts/hooks/no-remote-auth-guard.sh",
          "timeout": 5
        },
        {
          "type": "command",
          "command": "${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/scripts/hooks/remote-id-guard.sh",
          "timeout": 5
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "matcher": "Agent",
      "hooks": [
        {
          "type": "command",
          "command": "${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/scripts/hooks/agent-spawn-dispatch.sh",
          "timeout": 15
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "matcher": "mcp__.*trajectory-server__.*",
      "hooks": [
        {
          "type": "command",
          "command": "${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/scripts/hooks/swe-brief-gate.sh",
          "timeout": 5
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "matcher": "mcp__.*trajectory-server__task_update_statu

Read the full file on GitHub · 154 lines

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 · 154 lines scan A 9112a57767ee

Subscribe to this mod's changes

PreToolUse is a hook published in the GitHub repository trustmybot/plugin (6 stars, last pushed 2d 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 66% identical to SessionStart, differing in 149 lines, and is treated as a copy.