hook-authoring

hook-authoring is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from terrene-foundation/kailash-coc-claude-py. It costs 46 tokens per session (5,026 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A reference for creating and reviewing event hooks that run during coding-assistant sessions and tool use.

In plain words
What is it for?
It is for registering hooks, enforcing runtime checks, handling timeouts, and reviewing hook behavior in Claude, Codex, and Gemini.
Why use it?
It helps make automated checks reliable across assistant platforms, including differences in configuration, available events, and tool support.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for Claude Code and Codex: $CLAUDE_PROJECT_DIR variable, but also reads ~/.codex or $CODEX_HOME. Also seen: reads .claude/ paths; mentions Codex.

Good fit It is for registering hooks, enforcing runtime checks, handling timeouts, and reviewing hook behavior in Claude, Codex, and Gemini.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/terrene-foundation/kailash-coc-claude-py/hook-authoring
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.

Any agent
npx skills add terrene-foundation/kailash-coc-claude-py --skill hook-authoring
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/terrene-foundation/kailash-coc-claude-py

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 46 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 5,026 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector warn 7 Sept 2026
SkillSpector: 1 finding, up to medium

These are SkillSpector’s own severities. On a checked sample its high-severity flags on skills were ~96% false positives — a documented command, a public API, a “never do X” rule — so we show them as a caution to read, not a verdict. Why →

  • medium Prompt Injection · line 26
    Large whitespace padding was detected (a block of blank lines or a long run of spaces). This can push injected instructions below or to the right of the visible area so a human reviewer never sees them while the agent still reads them. Manual review of the hidden content is recommended.
    Fix: Remove the large whitespace padding (blank-line blocks or long space runs) and review any content hidden below or to the right of it. Keep skill files compact and reviewable so no instructions can be
How audits are shown
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 $0.00046 $0.05026
Opus 5 $0.00023 $0.02513
Sonnet 5 $0.00009 $0.01005
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00503

Measured 9d ago against content hash a8729d0e60f7, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

hook-authoring 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 9d 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/hook-authoring/SKILL.md · 274 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 274 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Hook Authoring

Reference for authoring and auditing event hooks across CC, Codex, and Gemini. Hooks are L3 (Guardrails) artifacts in the COC 5-layer architecture per rules/cc-artifacts.md — alongside rules, but distinguished by deterministic runtime invocation on tool / session lifecycle events. Sibling to skill-authoring (F1) and command-authoring (F2).

When To Use

Authoring a new hook script under .claude/hooks/. Auditing an existing hook for timeout discipline, output shape, severity grounding, predicate bijection with the MCP guard, or path resolution across CLIs. Deciding whether enforcement belongs in a hook (runtime tripwire, deterministic), an agent (judgment, tools), or a rule (always-on prose guardrail).

Quick Reference

CLI Registration Event surface Path env
CC .claude/settings.json hooks block SessionStart, UserPromptSubmit, PreToolUse, PostToolUse, Stop $CLAUDE_PROJECT_DIR exported
Codex .codex/hooks.json (repo) or ~/.codex/hooks.json (user) Same names; Bash tool onlyapply_patch / Write / MCP do NOT fire NOT exported; resolve via cwd-relative
Gemini .gemini/settings.json hooks object BeforeTool / AfterTool / BeforeAgent / SessionStart / SessionEnd $GEMINI_PROJECT_DIR exported
Constraint Value
Script location .claude/hooks/<name>.js — Anthropic-documented path, shared across all three CLIs
Module system CommonJS (require), matching repo convention
Timeout fallback Mandatory per rules/cc-artifacts.md Rule 7 — setTimeout → emit {continue: true}, process.exit(1)
Stdin / stdout Read JSON payload from stdin; emit JSON on stdout
Halting exit (PreToolUse) process.exit(2) — but ONLY via lib/instruct-and-wait.js::emit() shape per rules/hook-output-discipline.md
Halting return (post) continue: false — ONLY via the same emit() shape
Block severity Requires structural / behavioral / AST signal — lexical regex match is BLOCKED per hook-output-discipline.md MUST-2

Read the full file on GitHub · 274 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. 9d ago First seen · 274 lines · 46 tokens per session scan A a8729d0e60f7

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hook-authoring is a skill published in the GitHub repository terrene-foundation/kailash-coc-claude-py (12 stars, last pushed 24d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 46 tokens to every session and 5,026 once invoked, about $0.0002 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 2026-09-03.

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