Hook Development

Guidance for developing hooks, which are automated actions tied to events such as before or after a tool runs, or when an agent stops.

In plain words
What is it for?
Creating PreToolUse, PostToolUse, Stop, or related hooks, validating tool use, blocking dangerous commands, and setting up prompt-based automation.
Why use it?
Hooks can enforce rules or automate checks during an agent’s work, but they depend on correct event handling. This guidance helps design and validate those event-driven actions.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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 skills/anthropics/claude-code/hook-development
Any agent
npx skills add anthropics/claude-code --skill hook-development
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 117 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,985 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin unknown 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 $0.00117 $0.03985
Opus 5 $0.00059 $0.01992
Sonnet 5 $0.00023 $0.00797
Haiku 4.5 $0.00012 $0.00398

Measured 2d ago against content hash d14528f389ca, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

Hook Development 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.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 6 executable files (examples/load-context.sh, examples/validate-bash.sh, examples/validate-write.sh, …), listed below but not scanned — reading those needs a real analyzer, not pattern matching.

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.

plugins/plugin-dev/skills/hook-development/SKILL.md · 713 lines

The source is not reproduced here

No licence file

A repository with no LICENSE is all rights reserved by default, so the body is not copied here. The metadata, the measurements and the link are.

Read it on GitHub

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 · 713 lines · 117 tokens per session scan A d14528f389ca

Subscribe to this mod's changes

Hook Development is a skill published in the GitHub repository anthropics/claude-code (143,632 stars, last pushed today), with no licence file. It adds 117 tokens to every session and 3,985 once invoked, about $0.0006 per session on Opus 5. 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.

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