Claude Code hooks receive their payload as JSON on stdin, not as command arguments
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Each hook process is spawned with a single JSON object written to stdin. It carries session_id, transcript_path, cwd and hook_event_name, plus event-specific fields: PreToolUse and PostToolUse add tool_name and tool_input, PostToolUse also adds tool_response, and UserPromptSubmit adds the prompt text.
Hooks configured as a bare command receive no arguments, so a script that reads argv finds an empty list and silently does nothing useful. Read stdin and parse it. A quick way to see the real shape for an event is to configure a hook that copies stdin to a file and then trigger the event once.
Because tool_input is the fully resolved input, a PreToolUse hook can inspect the actual file path or command string rather than guessing from the prompt. That is what makes hooks a reliable policy point where prompt instructions are not: the hook runs in the harness, outside the model, so the model cannot talk it out of a decision.
Source: https://docs.claude.com/en/docs/claude-code/hooks
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