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.
/plugin marketplace add varie-ai/varie-claude-avatar/plugin install varie-avatarWrote this? Show the measurements
A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.
[](https://agentmods.dev/hooks/varie-ai/varie-claude-avatar/pre-tool-use)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/hooks/varie-ai/varie-claude-avatar/pre-tool-use"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/hooks/varie-ai/varie-claude-avatar/pre-tool-use/github.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/hooks/varie-ai/varie-claude-avatar/pre-tool-use"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/hooks/varie-ai/varie-claude-avatar/pre-tool-use.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>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 12d 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.
This is a copy
58% identical to SessionStart — 19 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.
What it actually says
{
"PreToolUse": [
{
"matcher": "Bash|Write|Edit",
"hooks": [
{
"type": "command",
"command": "${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/scripts/varie-avatar-notify approval-needed --tool $TOOL_NAME",
"timeout": 1000
}
]
},
{
"matcher": "AskUserQuestion",
"hooks": [
{
"type": "command",
"command": "${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/scripts/varie-avatar-notify question --tool $TOOL_NAME",
"timeout": 1000
}
]
}
]
}What else hooks.json configures
This page is one entry in a file that holds 10. Installing the file brings all of them; each is measured and scanned on its own page.
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.
- 12d ago First seen · 24 lines scan A c40a2c9c4577
PreToolUse is a hook published in the GitHub repository varie-ai/varie-claude-avatar (11 stars, last pushed 7mo 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 58% identical to SessionStart, differing in 19 lines, and is treated as a copy.
Other hooks, from other repositories
PostToolUse
Runs after a tool call finishes for Write and Edit tool calls, executing format_and_lint.sh. From supabase/supabase.
SessionStart
Runs when a session starts, executing on-start.js via node. From google-gemini/gemini-cli.
SessionStart
Runs when a session starts on startup, executing install_pkgs.sh. From supabase/supabase.
PreToolUse
Runs before the agent uses a tool for Bash tool calls, running an inline shell check. From apache/superset.
PreToolUse
Runs before the agent uses a tool for Bash tool calls, executing enforce-tools.mjs via node. From prisma/orm.
PostToolUse
Runs after a tool call finishes for Write and Edit tool calls, executing format-ts.mjs via node. From prisma/orm.