PostToolUseFailure

PostToolUseFailure is a hook for Claude Code from vshulcz/deja-vu. Its token cost is not measured, scanned A, original, MIT.

A tool-failure hook that runs a shell script after Bash or PowerShell tool calls fail.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to trigger post-failure handling for Bash and PowerShell commands.
Why use it?
It can check whether a previous fix is available after a command fails, reducing repeated investigation of the same tool error.

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 deja-vu plugin — 1 skill, 1 command, 1 hook shipped together

Good fit Use it to trigger post-failure handling for Bash and PowerShell commands.

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About the project

deja-vu is a local memory system that indexes coding-agent session histories and makes relevant past work available to other agents. It helps users share fixes and context across Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, Copilot CLI, and other coding agents without using a language model or embeddings. The catalogue contains hooks, commands, MCP components, skills, plugins, and instructions for connecting agents to that memory.

vshulcz/deja-vu · 1,220 stars · on GitHub · vshulcz.github.io

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 vshulcz/deja-vu
Claude Code
/plugin install deja-vu

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install deja-vu, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 1 skill, 1 command, 1 hook.

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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 original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Security

Grade A, and why

PostToolUseFailure 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 14d 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.

claude-plugin/hooks/hooks.json · 15 lines

What it actually says

{
  "PostToolUseFailure": [
    {
      "matcher": "Bash|PowerShell",
      "hooks": [
        {
          "type": "command",
          "command": "\"${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/hooks/deja.sh\" hook-tool-after",
          "timeout": 10,
          "statusMessage": "Checking what fixed this before…"
        }
      ]
    }
  ]
}
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. 14d ago First seen · 15 lines scan A 1c8caaef3eee

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PostToolUseFailure is a hook published in the GitHub repository vshulcz/deja-vu (1,220 stars, last pushed yesterday), 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 2026-10-03.