These 4 files are the difference. Copy-paste hooks running in production — not tips, not demos, actual infrastructure.
✕ AI deletes something, you find out after
✕ Secrets leak into commits because nobody checked
✕ Every session starts from scratch — context gone
✕ Design tokens change, paired projects break silently
✓ Destructive commands blocked before they run
✓ Every edit scanned for secrets, TODOs, console.logs
✓ Timestamped handoff note written on every session stop
✓ Shared file changes flag downstream projects to sync
Claude Code hooks let you run scripts at specific points in Claude's lifecycle — before it runs a command, after it edits a file, when a session ends. Right like, this is not a Claude trick or a prompt engineering thing, this is actual infrastructure. You're wiring event handlers to Claude's actions the same way you'd wire them to any other system. That's what makes it a professional environment and not just a really fast tab-completion.
I'm a Lead Engineer. I work on distributed systems that process $5.2 trillion in assets for over a thousand advisory firms. When I started using Claude Code seriously for side project work, the first thing I did was build the safety layer I'd build for any critical system — guard against destructive operations, enforce quality checks, automate the handoff so context doesn't disappear. These hooks are that.
The 4 hooks in this pack are running in my production environment right now. This is not a demonstration. This is what I actually use.
Each hook is a single file with a clear job. There's no framework, no dependencies — just a script that runs at the right moment. The installation guide tells you exactly where each one goes. Install time is about 15 minutes total if you read the guide first and don't try to figure it out from the code alone.
Intercepts bash commands before they run and blocks anything destructive —
rm -rf,
git reset --hard,
drop table,
and a configurable list you add to.
The command doesn't run. Claude gets a message explaining why. You get to explicitly
allow it if you actually meant it.
This isn't about Claude being reckless — it's about the fact that at 11pm after 3 hours of debugging, you will at some point tell Claude to "clean everything up" and it will interpret that more literally than you intended. The guard runs before that interpretation becomes a file you can't get back.
Scans every file Claude edits before you see the result. Looking for three things:
hardcoded secrets (API keys, tokens, connection strings — real patterns, not just
the word "secret"), leftover
console.log
statements that shouldn't go to production, and TODO comments that accumulate into
technical debt nobody meant to ship. Flags them in the output so you decide before
you commit.
This one is the "I should have had this" hook. The first time it catches a hardcoded token in a file Claude generated, you will understand immediately why it's in the pack.
Runs when a Claude session ends. Writes a timestamped handoff note to
docs/handoff.md
— what was worked on, what was changed, what's still open, any blockers. Tomorrow-you
opens that file and picks up in 30 seconds. You stop rebuilding context from
git blame and trying to remember what you were thinking.
This is the one that changed how I work the most. I build in the evenings when I can, right like sometimes it's 45 minutes, sometimes it's two hours, always with three kids and a full-time job competing for the same brain. The handoff note means I don't lose the thread just because I had to stop.
Monitors specific shared files — design tokens, brand kits, API schemas, anything that multiple projects depend on. When one of those files changes, it drops a flag and alerts you that downstream projects need to sync. It doesn't do the sync for you — that's on purpose, you should control that. It just makes sure you know.
This one is for people building more than one project that share infrastructure. If that's not you yet, you can configure it for whatever shared files matter in your setup — environment config, shared components, documentation that stays in sync. The guide has examples.
The hooks don't do anything if they're not wired up. The included
settings.json
template shows you exactly how to register each hook, what permissions each one
needs, and how to configure the paths and patterns for your project structure.
The installation guide walks through every field. There's nothing to figure out,
just fill in your paths and it runs.
If you want to read the code you can — it's all annotated. But you don't have to. The installation guide is step-by-step and you don't need to modify anything to get all four hooks running. After that, you configure the patterns that match your project structure and you're done.
I'm a Lead Engineer at Orion Advisor Solutions where my team's distributed trading systems process $5.2 trillion in assets for over a thousand financial advisory firms. I design systems where "it mostly works" is not a standard. I've been doing this for 8+ years — Java, C#, Node.js, AWS, the whole stack, event-driven architecture, the kinds of systems where latency and reliability are not optional requirements.
I started using Claude Code seriously for side project work and the first thing I noticed was that most people use it like an autocomplete that can write whole files. And it does that well. But the thing that made it actually trustworthy for production code — even side project production code — was the infrastructure layer. The hooks I built are the same thing I'd build for any critical process: guard the destructive operations, enforce the quality check, automate the handoff. I put these together in a pack because every developer using Claude Code should have them running. The setup takes 15 minutes. The alternative is finding out the hard way what happens without them.
4 production hooks + settings.json template + install guide
Instant download. Works with any Claude Code project. No framework deps.
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