hookstack CLAUDE.md

Project instructions for Hookstack, a catalogue of scripts called hooks that run at specific points in Claude Code, OpenAI Codex, or GitHub Copilot sessions. They explain how the same Node.js hook code is configured for each agent.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use them when adding or changing hooks, documenting installation scopes, supporting multiple coding agents, or checking the project's user entry points.
Why use it?
They clarify the difference between a hook and a plugin and help keep the catalogue, installation process, and agent configurations consistent.

Instructions file

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 instructions/steve-magne/hookstack/claude-md
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/steve-magne/hookstack
Per session 9,002 This file is loaded in full into every session.
When invoked 9,002 The same file — it is already loaded in full.
Security scan B 2 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5 $0.09002 $0.09002
Opus 5 $0.04501 $0.04501
Sonnet 5 $0.01800 $0.01800
Haiku 4.5 $0.00900 $0.00900

Measured 2d ago against content hash 6ef2e35a0d05, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade B, and why

hookstack CLAUDE.md scanned grade B with 2 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 2d ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Reads agent configuration directoriesmediumAgent snooping

.claude/, .codex/, .gemini/ hold keys, settings and other credentials a mod has no legitimate need for.

| `project` | (défaut) | `./.claude/settings.json` | claude (clé `hooks`) | conserve `$CLAUDE_PROJECT_DIR` |

Runs shell commandslowCapability

Expected in a hook, worth knowing in a rule or an instructions file.

**Langage** : Node.js (`.mjs`) — OS-agnostique, disponible partout où `node` est dans le PATH. Pas de dépendances externes ; utiliser uniquement les builtins Node (`fs`, `child_process`, `path`).
CLAUDE.md · 318 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 318 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

CLAUDE.md

Présentation du projet

Hookstack est un catalogue communautaire de hooks agentiques multi-agentClaude Code, OpenAI Codex et GitHub Copilot. Un hook est un script Node.js .mjs branché sur le cycle de vie de l'agent (PreToolUse, PostToolUse, SessionStart, Stop…) via un fichier de config — pas un plugin, pas un SDK, juste un événement.

Portabilité multi-agent : Codex et Claude Code partagent les mêmes noms d'événements de cycle de vie. Le code des hooks (.mjs) est donc identique entre agents — seul le format du fichier de config diffère : Claude Code/Copilot → .claude/settings.json ({ "hooks": { Event: [...] } }, scripts dans .claude/hooks/) ; Codex → .codex/hooks.json (événements à la racine, scripts dans .codex/hooks/). Le CLI gère cette transformation à l'installation (voir « Scopes d'installation CLI »). Un hook s'écrit une fois, se déploie sur les trois agents.

Promesse : "Get your HookStack in 1 minute" — un développeur arrive sur le site et peut immédiatement injecter une stack de hooks prédéfinis pour son type de projet via une seule commande npx. S'il le souhaite, il explore le catalogue, sélectionne des hooks plus spécifiques, copie la commande npx générée et les installe dans son projet.

Arrive  →  Stack prédéfinie (fast path)  →  npx hookstack-cli@latest install  →  Done
                    ↓ optionnel
          Browse catalogue + sélection fine  →  commande mise à jour  →  Done

Dogfood

Le projet est son propre cobaye. Les hooks de la collection (.claude/hooks/*.mjs) sont actifs sur ce dépôt via .claude/settings.json — ils sont exécutés à chaque session Claude Code sur ce projet, ce qui les valide en conditions réelles. Quand un .mjs est modifié, le hook registry-auto-sync.mjs (FileChanged) relance automatiquement node .claude/sync-hooks.mjs pour propager le code dans registry/registry.json (code_snippet). Le .mjs sur disque est la source de vérité du code ; le registre en est le reflet.

Read the full file on GitHub · 318 lines

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. 2d ago First seen · 318 lines · 9,002 tokens per session scan B 6ef2e35a0d05

Subscribe to this mod's changes

hookstack CLAUDE.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository steve-magne/hookstack (7 stars, last pushed 8d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 9,002 tokens to every session, about $0.0450 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it B with 2 findings (reads agent configuration directories, runs shell commands). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-31.

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