sanitize-hook-payloads

sanitize-hook-payloads is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from vinilana/dotcontext. It costs 62 tokens per session (473 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A set of rules for safely recording data from coding-agent lifecycle hooks, which are callbacks that run after actions such as writing, editing, or running commands. It limits input size, removes secrets, and stores only bounded summaries.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when implementing or reviewing hook payload parsing, trace storage, redaction, size limits, rotation, and mappings for Claude Code, Codex, or Pi hooks.
Why use it?
It prevents source code, credentials, prompts, and other sensitive or oversized data from being copied into trace logs. It also keeps logging from slowing down or blocking the host hook.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for Claude Code and Codex: PostToolUse hook event, but also agents/openai.yaml present. Also seen: mentions Claude Code; mentions Codex.

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/vinilana/dotcontext/sanitize-hook-payloads
Any agent
npx skills add vinilana/dotcontext --skill sanitize-hook-payloads
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/vinilana/dotcontext

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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README.md
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Per session 62 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 473 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 $0.00062 $0.00473
Opus 5 $0.00031 $0.00236
Sonnet 5 $0.00012 $0.00095
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00047

Measured 6d ago against content hash 35847a274186, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-06, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

sanitize-hook-payloads 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.

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.

.context/skills/sanitize-hook-payloads/SKILL.md · 51 lines

What it actually says

Sanitize Hook Payloads

Treat host hook envelopes as untrusted, potentially huge, and potentially secret-bearing.

Workflow

  1. Trace the envelope from host stdin through normalization, mapping, and appendTrace.
  2. Set an input byte ceiling before parsing JSON.
  3. Reduce tool input to an allowlisted metadata summary before it reaches runtime state.
  4. Apply recursive redaction and serialized-size limits as defense in depth.
  5. Rotate traces by bytes and preserve atomic append behavior.
  6. Keep host hooks non-blocking while recording a bounded failure reason.
  7. Test equivalent envelopes for Claude Code, Codex, and Pi.

Tool summaries

  • Write: keep path, byte length, hash, and contentOmitted.
  • Edit: keep path, old/new lengths, hashes, and range metadata.
  • Bash: keep classification, basename, and a bounded preview.
  • Unknown: keep scalar metadata and key names only.

Redact content, old_string, new_string, patch, prompt, messages, authorization, tokens, passwords, secrets, and API keys case-insensitively.

Required invariants

  • Never persist raw Write or Edit bodies.
  • Never echo rejected stdin.
  • Never rely only on host-provided sizes.
  • Measure the serialized trace before writing.
  • Keep trace rotation compatible with legacy trace.jsonl.
  • Never delete the active segment.
  • Keep safety ceilings effective even when configuration is malformed.

Dotcontext routing

  • Keep host field mapping in src/integrations.
  • Keep stdin limits in src/cli.
  • Keep reusable sanitization and trace policy in src/harness.
  • Update hook installer tests and public hook docs when observable behavior changes.
  • Follow F-02.

Review gate

Verify a multi-megabyte Write produces a small trace, sensitive fixtures never appear on disk, oversized stdin stays non-blocking, rotation survives concurrent appends, and package smoke tests pass.

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. 6d ago First seen · 51 lines · 62 tokens per session scan A 35847a274186

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sanitize-hook-payloads is a skill published in the GitHub repository vinilana/dotcontext (565 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 62 tokens to every session and 473 once invoked, about $0.0003 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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