validate-hooks

validate-hooks is a skill for Claude Code from pdugan20/claudelint. It costs 71 tokens per session (285 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A checker for Claude Code's hooks.json files, which control actions triggered by events such as tool use or user prompts.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to check a hooks.json file, investigate why a hook is not running, or review its events, commands, and matching patterns.
Why use it?
It finds invalid JSON, unsupported events or hook types, bad matchers, and missing command scripts before hooks fail unexpectedly.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter. Also seen: reads .claude/ paths; mentions Claude Code.

Part of the claudelint plugin — 15 skills, 2 commands, 15 agents, 1 hook, 2 MCP servers, 1 plugin shipped together

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/pdugan20/claudelint/validate-hooks
Any agent
npx skills add pdugan20/claudelint --skill validate-hooks
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/pdugan20/claudelint

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install claudelint, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 15 skills, 2 commands, 15 agents, 1 hook, 2 MCP servers, 1 plugin.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

agentmods badge for validate-hooks

README.md
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Your own site
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Per session 71 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 285 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 5.1 $0.00071 $0.00285
Opus 5 $0.00036 $0.00143
Sonnet 5 $0.00014 $0.00057
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00028

Measured 6d ago against content hash 6c7f96ac114e, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-06, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

validate-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 6d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 1 executable file (validate-hooks.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.

skills/validate-hooks/SKILL.md · 44 lines

What it actually says

Validate Hooks

Runs claudelint validate-hooks to validate .claude/hooks/hooks.json files.

Usage

claudelint validate-hooks $ARGUMENTS

Options

  • --path <path> - Custom path to hooks.json
  • --verbose - Show detailed output
  • --warnings-as-errors - Treat warnings as errors

What Gets Validated

  • JSON syntax
  • Hook events (tool-use, user-prompt-submit, etc.)
  • Hook types (command, prompt, agent)
  • Matcher validation (tool names, regex patterns)
  • Command script file existence

Examples

claudelint validate-hooks
claudelint validate-hooks --path /path/to/hooks.json

See Also

Files

What ships with it

2 files 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. 6d ago First seen · 44 lines · 71 tokens per session scan A 6c7f96ac114e

Subscribe to this mod's changes

validate-hooks is a skill published in the GitHub repository pdugan20/claudelint (12 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 71 tokens to every session and 285 once invoked, about $0.0004 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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