speculate

Project settings that run shell scripts when a coding session starts and after Bash commands are used.

In plain words
What is it for?
Preparing command-line tools at session start and prompting follow-up actions after Bash commands.
Why use it?
They automate setup for the GitHub and TBD command-line tools and remind you about closing TBD items after shell work.

Settings file 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 settings/jlevy/speculate/settings
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/jlevy/speculate

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

speculate 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 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.

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 · 38 lines

What it actually says

{
  "hooks": {
    "SessionStart": [
      {
        "matcher": "",
        "hooks": [
          {
            "type": "command",
            "command": "bash .claude/scripts/ensure-gh-cli.sh",
            "timeout": 120
          }
        ]
      },
      {
        "matcher": "",
        "hooks": [
          {
            "type": "command",
            "command": "bash .claude/scripts/ensure-tbd-cli.sh",
            "timeout": 120
          }
        ]
      }
    ],
    "PostToolUse": [
      {
        "matcher": "Bash",
        "hooks": [
          {
            "type": "command",
            "command": "\"$CLAUDE_PROJECT_DIR\"/.claude/hooks/tbd-closing-reminder.sh"
          }
        ]
      }
    ]
  }
}
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 · 38 lines scan A 0d30d979c0a3

Subscribe to this mod's changes

speculate is a settings file published in the GitHub repository jlevy/speculate (34 stars, last pushed 6mo ago), licensed MIT. Its token cost is not measured: this kind of file is read by the harness, not the model. 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.