A pre-tool hook runs a command before the coding agent uses a selected tool. This setup grounds Write and Edit actions, and guards Bash commands.

It helps inspect file writes, file edits, and Bash commands before they are executed.

It adds checks before the agent changes files or runs shell commands, reducing the chance of unsupported edits or unsafe command use.

PreToolUse — Hook by uqeu

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/uqeu/estelle-cli/pre-tool-use

Clone the repo

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/uqeu/estelle-cli

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.

estelle-plugin/hooks/hooks.json · 26 lines

What it actually says

{
  "PreToolUse": [
    {
      "matcher": "Write|Edit",
      "hooks": [
        {
          "type": "command",
          "command": "npx -y @fatelabs/estelle@0 hook ground",
          "timeout": 15,
          "statusMessage": "Estelle hook ground"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "matcher": "Bash",
      "hooks": [
        {
          "type": "command",
          "command": "npx -y @fatelabs/estelle@0 hook guard",
          "timeout": 10,
          "statusMessage": "Estelle hook guard"
        }
      ]
    }
  ]
}

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.

yesterday First seen · 26 lines scan A e3a396e7a354

Subscribe to this mod's changes

PreToolUse is a hook published in the GitHub repository uqeu/estelle-cli (0 stars, last pushed yesterday), 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 2026-08-31.

PreToolUse

Getting it into your agent

Grade A, and why

Nothing flagged

What it actually says

What this file has done since we first saw it

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