PreToolUse

A pre-tool hook that runs a specified shell script before the coding agent uses a tool.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to run the repository’s activity script before the agent carries out tool actions.
Why use it?
It lets the project perform an automatic action before each tool use, such as recording activity or checking conditions.

Hook

Part of the claudemon plugin — 1 command, 6 hooks shipped together

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/zamarrowski/claudemon/pre-tool-use
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/zamarrowski/claudemon

Or install claudemon, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 1 command, 6 hooks.

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 3d 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

6 near-identical copies found in the catalogue:

hooks/hooks.json · 13 lines

What it actually says

{
  "PreToolUse": [
    {
      "hooks": [
        {
          "type": "command",
          "command": "\"${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/scripts/run.sh\" on-activity.mjs",
          "timeout": 5
        }
      ]
    }
  ]
}
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. 3d ago First seen · 13 lines scan A 970ca281eb19

Subscribe to this mod's changes

PreToolUse is a hook published in the GitHub repository zamarrowski/claudemon (59 stars, last pushed 6d 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.