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PreToolUse

PreToolUse is a hook for Claude Code from zstevovich/claude-apd. Its token cost is not measured, scanned A, a copy of SessionStart, MIT.

A set of checks that run before the coding agent uses selected tools, such as Bash, Git, file reading, writing, editing, and other agents.

In plain words
What is it for?
Pre-checking Git commands, shell commands, file operations, agent starts, and message actions.
Why use it?
It can check commands and tool use before they happen, helping enforce project rules and limits. The specific checks are implemented by Bash guard scripts.

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 claude-apd plugin — 11 skills, 5 agents, 8 hooks, 1 MCP server shipped together

One of 8 entries in hooks.json upstream. Installing this one merges just its entry into your config; the other 7 are separate, each on its own page.

not rated 5repo 1mo ago A scan tokens not measured copy · 84% MIT

Good fit Pre-checking Git commands, shell commands, file operations, agent starts, and message actions.

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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 zstevovich/claude-apd
Claude Code
/plugin install claude-apd

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install claude-apd, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 11 skills, 5 agents, 8 hooks, 1 MCP server.

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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. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
Origin 84% copy Near-identical to another mod 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 7d 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

This is a copy

84% identical to SessionStart — 155 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.

hooks/hooks.json · 162 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 162 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

{
  "PreToolUse": [
    {
      "matcher": "Agent",
      "hooks": [
        {
          "type": "command",
          "command": "bash",
          "args": [
            "${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/plugins/apd/bin/adapter/cc/guard-agent-reload"
          ],
          "timeout": 5
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "matcher": "Bash",
      "hooks": [
        {
          "type": "command",
          "if": "Bash(git *)",
          "command": "bash",
          "args": [
            "${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/plugins/apd/bin/adapter/cc/guard-git"
          ],
          "timeout": 5
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "matcher": "Bash",
      "hooks": [
        {
          "type": "command",
          "command": "bash",
          "args": [
            "${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/plugins/apd/bin/adapter/cc/guard-bash-scope"
          ],
          "timeout": 5
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "matcher": "Bash",
      "hooks": [
        {
          "type": "command",
          "command": "bash",
          "args": [
            "${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/plugins/apd/bin/adapter/cc/guard-bash-portability"
          ],
          "timeout": 5
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "matcher": "Read|Glob|Grep",
      "hooks": [
        {
          "type": "command",
          "command": "bash",
          "args": [
            "${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/plugins/apd/bin/adapter/cc/guard-spec-blind"
          ],
          "timeout": 5
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "matcher": "Read|Write|Edit|Bash",
      "hooks": [
        {
          "type": "command",
          "command": "bash",
          "args": [
            "${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/plugins/apd/bin/adapter/cc/guard-secrets"
          ],
          "timeout": 5
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "matcher": "Write|Edit",
      "hooks": [
        {
          "type": "command",
          "command": "bash",
          "args": [
            "${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/plugins/apd/bin/adapter/cc/guard-scope"
          ],
          "timeout": 5
        }

Read the full file on GitHub · 162 lines

Same file

What else hooks.json configures

This page is one entry in a file that holds 8. 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. 7d ago First seen · 162 lines scan A 723d8315cebe

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PreToolUse is a hook published in the GitHub repository zstevovich/claude-apd (5 stars, last pushed 1mo 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 84% identical to SessionStart, differing in 155 lines, and is treated as a copy.

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PreToolUse

Runs before the agent uses a tool, executing pre-write.sh and pre-bash.sh (2 commands). From anthropics/claude-cookbooks.

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