PreToolUse

PreToolUse is a hook for coding agents from wookiya1364/scv-claude-code. Its token cost is not measured, scanned A, original, MIT.

A hook that runs guard scripts before the agent uses tools for skills, shell commands, file changes, or notebook edits.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to apply project-defined checks before tool calls, especially before executing commands or modifying files.
Why use it?
It can stop or inspect risky actions before they change files or run commands.

Hook

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 scv plugin — 1 skill, 15 commands, 1 agent, 4 hooks shipped together

One of 4 entries in hooks.json — they are configured in one file and arrive together.

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 wookiya1364/scv-claude-code
Claude Code
/plugin install scv

Or install scv, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 1 skill, 15 commands, 1 agent, 4 hooks.

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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 4d 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.

Origin

Copies of this mod

1 near-identical copy found in the catalogue:

hooks/hooks.json · 34 lines

What it actually says

{
  "PreToolUse": [
    {
      "matcher": "Skill",
      "hooks": [
        {
          "type": "command",
          "command": "SCV_GUARD_MODE=mint SCV_GUARD_SCRIPTS=\"${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/vendor/scv-core/core/scripts\" SCV_GUARD_EXEMPT=\".claude/settings.json:.claude/settings.local.json\" bash \"${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/vendor/scv-core/core/template/hooks/guard.sh\"",
          "timeout": 5
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "matcher": "Bash",
      "hooks": [
        {
          "type": "command",
          "command": "SCV_GUARD_MODE=gate-bash SCV_GUARD_SCRIPTS=\"${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/vendor/scv-core/core/scripts\" SCV_GUARD_EXEMPT=\".claude/settings.json:.claude/settings.local.json\" bash \"${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/vendor/scv-core/core/template/hooks/guard.sh\"",
          "timeout": 5
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "matcher": "Write|Edit|MultiEdit|NotebookEdit",
      "hooks": [
        {
          "type": "command",
          "command": "SCV_GUARD_MODE=gate-write SCV_GUARD_SCRIPTS=\"${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/vendor/scv-core/core/scripts\" SCV_GUARD_EXEMPT=\".claude/settings.json:.claude/settings.local.json\" bash \"${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/vendor/scv-core/core/template/hooks/guard.sh\"",
          "timeout": 5
        }
      ]
    }
  ]
}
Same file

What else hooks.json configures

This page is one entry in a file that holds 4. Installing the file brings all of them; each is measured and scanned on its own page.

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. 4d ago First seen · 34 lines scan A 6cd52f6a85b7

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PreToolUse is a hook published in the GitHub repository wookiya1364/scv-claude-code (7 stars, last pushed today), 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 2026-08-31.