ccl-skills / hooks
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Hooks are plugin-shipped runtime enforcement surfaces. Hosts may execute them on session start or tool use, so changes here are shared-skill behavior changes. - Keep hooks deterministic, fail-closed where safety requires it, and explicit about advisory versus blocking outcomes. - Do not read secrets or personal config unless the hook's contract documents why and how failures degrade. - Avoid broad filesystem mutation from hooks. - Non-wording changes require deterministic validation plus independent review and adversarial challenge before landing.
Where files are headingNew AGENTS.md files have more rules about keeping secrets out of the code, and fewer about code style.
Of the AGENTS.md files we read, the 31,774 first seen in the last six months, against the older ones: the kind of rule that gained most share, and the kind that lost most. About files like this in general, not this one, and an estimate, since a kind is a pattern in the words.
In this repository45 other files it gives its agents.
- AGENTS.mdAGENTS.md
- eval/AGENTS.mdAGENTS.md
- packages/AGENTS.mdAGENTS.md
- scripts/AGENTS.mdAGENTS.md
- skills/code-review/scripts/AGENTS.mdAGENTS.md
- skills/multi-perspective-research/scripts/AGENTS.mdAGENTS.md
- skills/product-rd-workflow/scripts/AGENTS.mdAGENTS.md
- skills/skill-extraction-workflow/scripts/AGENTS.mdAGENTS.md
- skills/test-artifact-management/references/AGENTS.mdAGENTS.md
- skills/testing-strategy/scripts/AGENTS.mdAGENTS.md
- skills/tighten-doc/scripts/AGENTS.mdAGENTS.md
- skills/worktree-isolation/scripts/AGENTS.mdAGENTS.md
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The file
We split this AGENTS.md into the rules it gives an agent
3 rules. About 1 is common, 2 are distinctive, and 0 are very specific to this project.
≈1
Common · estimate
Many files like this have a rule of this kind.
≈2
Distinctive · estimate
This author's own choices. Worth a look.
0
Very specific
Tied to their project's names, files or tools. Probably skip.
- Common
- Distinctive
- Very specific
- Distinctive: line 8
Keep hooks deterministic, fail-closed where safety requires it, and explicit about advisory versus blocking outcomes.
- Common: line 10
Do not read secrets or personal config unless the hook's contract documents why and how failures degrade.
- Distinctive: line 12
Avoid broad filesystem mutation from hooks.
≈ “Common” is an estimate: at least 1 in 5 of the 40,246 AGENTS.md files we read have a rule of the same kind, not the same words. “Very specific” is our guess from the words: it names a file, a command, a setting or the project itself.
Files
hooks Agent Contract
Hooks are plugin-shipped runtime enforcement surfaces. Hosts may execute them on session start or tool use, so changes here are shared-skill behavior changes.
Rules:
- Keep hooks deterministic, fail-closed where safety requires it, and explicit about advisory versus blocking outcomes.
- Do not read secrets or personal config unless the hook's contract documents why and how failures degrade.
- Avoid broad filesystem mutation from hooks.
- Non-wording changes require deterministic validation plus independent review and adversarial challenge before landing.
Validation:
bash skills/skill-extraction-workflow/scripts/check-ccl-skills.sh .git diff --check
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