hookify-rules

hookify-rules is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from ufy2024/AuC. It costs 47 tokens per session (1,025 once invoked), scanned C, original, MIT.

A reference for creating Hookify rules: small configuration files that watch for matching commands, file changes, prompts, or other events and then show a warning or block an action.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to write rules that match text or file conditions, enable or disable them, and choose whether a match warns or prevents an operation.
Why use it?
It helps make recurring safety checks automatic instead of relying on memory before risky operations.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Good fit Use it to write rules that match text or file conditions, enable or disable them, and choose whether a match warns or prevents an operation.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/ufy2024/auc/hookify-rules
View source ↗ ufy2024/AuC
About the project

AuC is a Python framework for running a single AI agent with an asynchronous, pluggable reasoning loop, language-model adapters, permission levels, and observable events. It is used to build coding and conversational agents with tools, security checks, web interfaces, background jobs, evaluations, and isolated execution. The catalogue entries are skills for extending its agent workflow.

ufy2024/AuC · 1,090 stars · on GitHub

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 ufy2024/AuC --skill hookify-rules
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/ufy2024/AuC

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 47 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,025 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan C 1 finding. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
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 $0.00047 $0.01025
Opus 5 $0.00023 $0.00513
Sonnet 5 $0.00009 $0.00205
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00103

Measured 9d ago against content hash 8a8288214f39, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade C, and why

hookify-rules scanned grade C with 1 finding 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.

Recursive force deletehighDestructive command

rm -rf with a variable or a broad path is one typo away from removing the wrong tree.

- **Too specific**: `rm -rf /tmp` — use `rm\s+-rf`
auc/skill_library/bundled/hookify-rules/SKILL.md · 149 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 149 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Writing Hookify Rules

Overview

Hookify rules are markdown files with YAML frontmatter that define patterns to watch for and messages to show when those patterns match. Rules are stored in .claude/hookify.{rule-name}.local.md files.

Rule File Format

Basic Structure

---
name: rule-identifier
enabled: true
event: bash|file|stop|prompt|all
pattern: regex-pattern-here
---

Message to show Claude when this rule triggers.
Can include markdown formatting, warnings, suggestions, etc.

Frontmatter Fields

Field Required Values Description
name Yes kebab-case string Unique identifier (verb-first: warn-, block-, require-*)
enabled Yes true/false Toggle without deleting
event Yes bash/file/stop/prompt/all Which hook event triggers this
action No warn/block warn (default) shows message; block prevents operation
pattern Yes* regex string Pattern to match (*or use conditions for complex rules)

Advanced Format (Multiple Conditions)

---
name: warn-env-api-keys
enabled: true
event: file
conditions:
  - field: file_path
    operator: regex_match
    pattern: \.env$
  - field: new_text
    operator: contains
    pattern: API_KEY
---

You're adding an API key to a .env file. Ensure this file is in .gitignore!

Condition fields by event:

  • bash: command
  • file: file_path, new_text, old_text, content
  • prompt: user_prompt

Operators: regex_match, contains, equals, not_contains, starts_with, ends_with

All conditions must match for rule to trigger.

Event Type Guide

bash Events

Match Bash command patterns:

  • Dangerous commands: rm\s+-rf, dd\s+if=, mkfs
  • Privilege escalation: sudo\s+, su\s+
  • Permission issues: chmod\s+777

file Events

Match Edit/Write/MultiEdit operations:

  • Debug code: console\.log\(, debugger
  • Security risks: eval\(, innerHTML\s*=
  • Sensitive files: \.env$, credentials, \.pem$

Read the full file on GitHub · 149 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 · 149 lines · 47 tokens per session scan C 8a8288214f39

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hookify-rules is a skill published in the GitHub repository ufy2024/AuC (1,090 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 47 tokens to every session and 1,025 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it C with 1 finding (recursive force delete). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-09-03.

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