Articles tagged “hooks”

• Claude Code Hooks: Bash Matchers and the Monitor Tool

  November 6, 2026

  Since Claude Code 2.1.314 a Bash-matcher hook also sees Monitor commands, but allow and updatedInput are ignored there. What it means for your policy hooks.

• Claude Code Hooks onFailure: Make a Broken Hook Block

  October 31, 2026

  A Claude Code policy hook that crashes, times out or prints bad JSON lets the action through. How onFailure block makes it fail closed, and what it skips.

• Claude Code PreModelSwitch Hook: Block or Confirm /model

  August 30, 2026

  How Claude Code's PreModelSwitch and PostModelSwitch hooks work: the input fields, allow/ask/deny decisions, matcher rules, and three tested example scripts.

• Claude Code Hooks: A Practical Guide

  August 12, 2026

  A practical guide to Claude Code hooks. The events worth knowing, exit code semantics, matcher syntax, and working examples you can copy into settings.json.