setup

A setup guide for Claude Code Hooks, which are automatic checks or actions that run around coding-agent operations. It helps choose hooks and configure their environment variables.

In plain words
What is it for?
Setting up minimal or standard safety checks for a Claude Code project and deciding which automatic hooks to enable.
Why use it?
It helps add safeguards such as syntax checks, file-change logs, warnings for sensitive edits, and protection against unsafe pushes.

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/yurukusa/claude-code-hooks/setup
Any agent
npx skills add yurukusa/claude-code-hooks --skill setup
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/yurukusa/claude-code-hooks

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 25 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 601 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 $0.00025 $0.00601
Opus 5 $0.00013 $0.00300
Sonnet 5 $0.00005 $0.00120
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00060

Measured 2d ago against content hash cb4543000205, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

setup 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 2d 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.

skills/setup/SKILL.md · 51 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 51 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Claude Code Hooks Setup

You are helping the user set up production safety hooks for Claude Code.

Available Hooks

Hook Purpose Event Matcher
context-monitor.sh Context window warnings (40% → 25% → 20% → 15%) PostToolUse all
activity-logger.sh JSONL audit trail of file changes PostToolUse Edit|Write
syntax-check.sh Auto syntax validation after edits PostToolUse Edit|Write
decision-warn.sh Alerts on edits to sensitive paths PreToolUse Edit|Write
cdp-safety-check.sh Blocks raw WebSocket CDP construction PreToolUse Bash
proof-log-session.sh 5W1H session summaries Stop, PreCompact all
session-start-marker.sh Records session start time PostToolUse all
no-ask-human.sh Blocks questions during autonomous operation PostToolUse all
branch-guard.sh Blocks pushes to main/master PreToolUse Bash
error-gate.sh Blocks external actions when errors exist PreToolUse Bash

Setup Profiles

Minimal (recommended for beginners)

  • context-monitor.sh + syntax-check.sh
  • Catches the two most common failure modes

Standard (recommended for most users)

  • All of minimal + activity-logger.sh + branch-guard.sh + decision-warn.sh + proof-log-session.sh + session-start-marker.sh
  • Good balance of safety and visibility

Autonomous (for unattended operation)

  • All hooks enabled including no-ask-human.sh and error-gate.sh
  • Maximum safety for headless/autonomous Claude Code sessions

Steps

  1. Ask which profile the user wants (or let them pick individual hooks)
  2. The plugin's hooks.json already configures the autonomous profile by default
  3. Help configure environment variables if needed:
    • CC_CONTEXT_MISSION_FILE — path to mission.md (default: $HOME/mission.md)
    • CC_ACTIVITY_LOG — path to activity log (default: $HOME/claude-activity-log.jsonl)
    • CC_MONITORED_DIRS — colon-separated paths for decision-warn (default: $HOME/bin:$HOME/.claude/hooks)
    • CC_PROTECT_BRANCHES — colon-separated branch names (default: main:master)
    • CC_ERROR_LOG — path to error tracker (default: $HOME/.claude/error-tracker.log)
    • CC_PROOF_LOG_DIR — path to proof logs (default: $HOME/proof-log)
  4. Verify the setup works by running a quick test

Read the full file on GitHub · 51 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. 2d ago First seen · 51 lines · 25 tokens per session scan A cb4543000205

Subscribe to this mod's changes

setup is a skill published in the GitHub repository yurukusa/claude-code-hooks (19 stars, last pushed 4d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 25 tokens to every session and 601 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.

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