drupal-hooks

A guide to Drupal hooks, which are named points where custom code can change Drupal’s behavior. It covers Drupal 11 object-oriented hooks and older procedural hooks for forms, nodes, and themes.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to alter forms, change node behavior before saving, or customize theme-related processing.
Why use it?
It helps you change specific Drupal behavior without editing Drupal core or relying on broad code that runs unnecessarily.

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/edutrul/drupal-ai/drupal-hooks
Any agent
npx skills add edutrul/drupal-ai --skill drupal-hooks
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/edutrul/drupal-ai

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 26 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 955 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 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 $0.00026 $0.00955
Opus 5 $0.00013 $0.00477
Sonnet 5 $0.00005 $0.00191
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00096

Measured 3d ago against content hash ab4633df2753, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

drupal-hooks 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 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/skills/drupal-hooks/SKILL.md · 139 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 139 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Drupal Hooks (Drupal 11)

OOP Hooks (Preferred)

Location src/Hook/MyModuleHooks.php
Namespace Drupal\my_module\Hook
Auto-registered Drupal 11.1+ (no services.yml needed)
DI support Constructor injection
Testable Yes — instantiate directly, inject mocks

Example (Best Practice)

<?php

namespace Drupal\my_module\Hook;

use Drupal\Core\Form\FormStateInterface;
use Drupal\Core\Hook\Attribute\Hook;
use Drupal\Core\Session\AccountProxyInterface;
use Drupal\Core\StringTranslation\StringTranslationTrait;
use Drupal\node\NodeInterface;

final class MyModuleHooks {

  use StringTranslationTrait; // Provides $this->t().

  public function __construct(
    private readonly AccountProxyInterface $currentUser,
  ) {}

  /**
   * Implements hook_form_node_article_form_alter().
   *
   * Prefer targeted form hooks over generic form_alter — they only fire for
   * the specific form ID and avoid unnecessary processing.
   */
  #[Hook('form_node_article_form_alter')]
  public function formNodeArticleFormAlter(array &$form, FormStateInterface $form_state): void {
    $form['title']['#title'] = $this->t('Article title');
  }

  /**
   * Implements hook_form_alter().
   *
   * Use only when acting on multiple forms or the form ID is unknown at
   * development time. Check $form_id explicitly.
   */
  #[Hook('form_alter')]
  public function formAlter(array &$form, FormStateInterface $form_state, string $form_id): void {
    if ($form_id === 'node_page_form') {
      $form['title']['#description'] = $this->t('Enter a descriptive page title.');
    }
  }

  #[Hook('node_presave')]
  public function nodePresave(NodeInterface $node): void {
    if ($node->getType() === 'article') {
      // Example: stamp the current user's ID on save.
      $node->set('uid', $this->currentUser->id());
    }
  }

  #[Hook('theme')]
  public function theme(): array {
    return [
      'my_template' => [
        'variables' => ['content' => NULL],
      ],
    ];
  }

}

Read the full file on GitHub · 139 lines

Files

What ships with it

1 file beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

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 · 139 lines · 26 tokens per session scan A ab4633df2753

Subscribe to this mod's changes

drupal-hooks is a skill published in the GitHub repository edutrul/drupal-ai (71 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 26 tokens to every session and 955 once invoked, about $0.0001 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.