SessionStart

A session-start hook that runs a shell script when a coding-agent session starts. A hook is an automatic action tied to a particular event.

In plain words
What is it for?
Running startup checks and executing the project’s check-updates script when a session begins.
Why use it?
It lets the project perform its update check automatically instead of relying on someone to remember to run it.

Hook for Claude Code

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/wintermeyer/heinzel/session-start
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/wintermeyer/heinzel

Made for: Claude Code.

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

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 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.

.claude/settings.json · 14 lines

What it actually says

{
  "SessionStart": [
    {
      "matcher": "startup",
      "hooks": [
        {
          "type": "command",
          "command": "bash \"$CLAUDE_PROJECT_DIR/.claude/hooks/check-updates.sh\"",
          "timeout": 15
        }
      ]
    }
  ]
}
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 · 14 lines scan A bf44a53faeba

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SessionStart is a hook published in the GitHub repository wintermeyer/heinzel (89 stars, last pushed 14d 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. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.