# Agent Note: dsh-hooks-claude + dsh-hooks-codex — the Claude Code / Codex hook bridges

Status: implemented

## Problem

The harness's extension surface is its typed interception seams ([the interception-seams Agent Note](2026-06-30-interception-seams.md)): a "native hook" is just an ordinary cordis plugin subscribing to `agent/session-start`, `agent/prompt-submit`, `tools/pre-execute`, `tools/post-execute`, `agent/turn-continuation`, `subagent/start`, `subagent/end`. But users arrive with **existing** Claude Code (CC) and Codex hook configs — a `hooks.json` (or a settings file's `hooks` key) full of shell-command hooks — and want those to run unmodified. This Agent Note introduces the two **bridge plugins** that translate that external shell-hook protocol onto the typed seams, built on the shared wire-protocol library ([the hook-protocol-lib Agent Note](2026-06-30-hook-protocol-lib.md)).

The framing that shapes the whole design: **a bridge is a compatibility adapter, not a power tool.** Anything a bridge does (block a tool, inject context, force continuation, observe a subagent) a native cordis plugin does more powerfully — typed returns, full `ctx`, no serialization boundary. The bridge's reason to exist is to run the explicitly supported subset of external CC/Codex command hooks. That keeps each bridge thin: parse the config, pick a matcher mode, build the per-event payload, call `runHook` + `mergeHookOutputs` from the shared lib, and map the neutral outcome onto a seam Decision. The package READMEs own the exact current unsupported-event and partial-field inventory against the official protocols.

## Decision

Two independent plugins in the `packages/hooks/` group, each a function/namespace plugin (`name`/`inject`/`Config`/`apply`, NO default export — see [postmortem 0001](../../../../docs/postmortem/0001-acp-default-export-drops-inject.md)) injecting only `bash`:

- **`dsh-hooks-claude`** — the CC dialect. Seven of Claude Code's current hook points: `SessionStart`, `UserPromptSubmit`, `PreToolUse`, `PostToolUse`, `Stop`, `SubagentStart`, and `SubagentStop`. Owns CC-shaped per-event stdin payloads (a base of `session_id`/`transcript_path`/`cwd`/`hook_event_name` plus per-event fields), `CLAUDE_PROJECT_DIR` plus `${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}`/`${CLAUDE_PROJECT_DIR}` substitution, and the literal-or-regex matcher mode. `transcript_path` is the persistence locator result or `''`; stdin carries a **trailing newline**.
- **`dsh-hooks-codex`** — five of Codex's current hook points: `PreToolUse`, `PostToolUse`, `SessionStart`, `UserPromptSubmit`, and `Stop`. It uses an always-regex matcher, Codex-shaped snake_case payloads with `turn_id`/`model`/`permission_mode` extras written WITHOUT a trailing newline, no Codex plugin-env injection or config-time placeholder substitution, and no pre-tool approval or rewrite path. `transcript_path` is the same locator result or `null`; tool payloads carry the real `tool_name` in the reduced `tool_input: { command }` shape.

### Outcome → Decision mapping

Each bridge maps the neutral `MergedHookOutcome` from the shared lib onto the seam's typed Decision:

| Seam | CC | Codex |
|---|---|---|
| `agent/session-start` (emit) | additionalContext → `agent.inject()` | plain-stdout output → additionalContext → `agent.inject()` |
| `agent/prompt-submit` | `deny`→`block`; context-only→delegate+fold | `block`→`block`; context-only→delegate+fold |
| `tools/pre-execute` | `deny`→`deny`; `ask`→`ask` | `block`→`deny` (no allow/ask) |
| `tools/post-execute` | `deny`→`block`+feedback; context-only→delegate+fold | same |
| `agent/turn-continuation` | blocking Stop → `continue` (reason = next-step steering) | same |
| `subagent/start` (emit) | additionalContext → inject into a live in-process child; a remote child has no local injection target | unsupported by this bridge |
| `subagent/end` (emit) | observe-only | unsupported by this bridge |

The CC bridge's `ask` result is a real permission path, not a terminal bridge decision: `dsh-tools` resolves it through the optional [approval seam](2026-07-06-approval-seam.md). A composed ACP answerer prompts the owning editor session and `allowed-once` proceeds; without an ApprovalService or answerer, the call fails closed to `deny`.

### Context source is always the plugin (the mislabel guard)

`agent.inject()` defaults a missing `MessageSource` to `{ kind: 'user' }`, so every bridge `inject()` and `HookContext` passes `{ kind: 'plugin', plugin: 'hooks-claude' | 'hooks-codex' }`. Unit coverage pins the resulting `context/message.source` as the plugin rather than the user.

### Adding context is not a veto — delegate, then prepend

A hook that only attaches `additionalContext` (no block/deny) is NOT a decision the bridge should return on its own: returning `allow`/`accept` from a waterfall listener WITHOUT calling `next()` short-circuits every later `agent/prompt-submit` / `tools/post-execute` listener, so a policy/sandbox plugin registered after the bridge would never see the prompt. Each bridge therefore delegates via `next()` before adding its context to the downstream decision. Both seams carry ordered `additionalContexts` arrays, so the bridge prepends its separately sourced entry while preserving every downstream source, envelope, and metadata field; a downstream prompt block still drops all context because the prompt never reaches the model, while post-tool block semantics may explicitly retain contexts. Code Mode ferries the same array through the outer `run_code` result. Only a real `deny`/`block` from the hook itself short-circuits. Tests assert a later listener can still block a prompt a context-only hook allowed and that retained prompt and post-tool contexts remain separate.

### CLAUDE_PROJECT_DIR defaults to the session workspace

Claude Code always exports `CLAUDE_PROJECT_DIR`, and common unmodified hooks reference `$CLAUDE_PROJECT_DIR` for project-relative paths. An explicit `config.projectDir` wins; when it is omitted (the default ACP wiring configures only `configPath`), the bridge defaults the env var per-run to the agent's session workspace — the same `session.header.cwd` the hook already runs in — rather than leaving it empty. So a stock project-relative hook works in the default setup.

### Containment

The config is parsed ONCE at load; a read/parse failure logs and registers nothing rather than crashing boot (a typo'd path must not take the agent down). Only shell-form `type: 'command'` hooks run for CC; `http`, `mcp_tool`, `prompt`, and `agent` handlers are parsed-and-skipped. Codex runs only synchronous command handlers and skips `async: true` or non-command entries. The emit-listener paths (`session-start`, `subagent/start`) run detached, with their `inject` contained in a `.catch` that logs (a throwing inject must not break session boot or the loop).

### Where hooks run, and where their config comes from

Hooks run in the agent's session workspace, so relative paths target the user's project. `configPath` is resolved once against the process launch cwd and applies to every session. Per-session project-local discovery remains deferred under `TODO(per-session-hook-config)`.

## Deferred compatibility gaps

- **Tool-input rewrite.** A CC/Codex `updatedInput` is logged + warned, not honored — input rewrite is a deferred consistency-design problem ([the pre-tool-input-rewrite Agent Note](../../proposed/feature/2026-06-30-pre-tool-input-rewrite.md)), because the pre-execution args are read by `tool/call` audit + `assistant/message` history + ACP/tool-bash presentation, so an honest rewrite is a design unit, not a field.
- **Stop loop-guard** (`TODO(stop-loop-guard)`). Claude Code supplies `stop_hook_active` and overrides a hook after eight consecutive blocks; Codex supplies `stop_hook_active` but documents no equivalent cap. Both bridges always report `false`, so a Stop hook that unconditionally blocks force-continues every step — a hook author must self-limit until state tracking lands.
- **Hook `continue:false` (hard halt).** A hook can ask to halt the whole run (CC/Codex `continue:false`); the shared merge folds it into `MergedHookOutcome.stop`/`stopReason`, but no bridge acts on it (`TODO(hook-continue-false)`) — the interception seams have no "hard-halt the agent" primitive yet (a Decision blocks/steers a single point, not the run). Deferred with the loop-guard work; the halt request is recorded in the `hook/result` log, and the hook keeps its per-point effect (decision/context) meanwhile.
- **Config discovery.** The path is explicit in `cordis.yml` and process-level (see above); the full multi-layer CC/Codex precedence walk, per-session project-local discovery, and the trust/hash model are not reimplemented (`TODO(per-session-hook-config)`).
- **Session-start / subagent-start context is best-effort (`TODO(session-start-gating)`).** Both hooks run detached from startup, so their context is injected when ready but may miss the first request or a short-lived child. Guaranteeing first-request delivery requires an awaited startup seam.

## Alternatives considered

**Concurrent per-point hook execution.** The reference engines run a point's matched hooks concurrently and fold the results. These bridges run them **serially** (`await` per hook inside the match loop) and fold with the same most-restrictive merge. Serial is deliberate: it keeps each hook's `hook/invoked`/`hook/result` pair adjacent and in a deterministic order in the session log, and the fold is order-independent for the decision (`deny > ask > allow`) so the outcome matches. The cost is latency (hook *N* waits for hook *N−1*) and that per-hook timeouts are not overlapped — acceptable for the hook counts real configs use; revisit if a config ever fans out enough for the wall-clock to matter.

## Consequences

Matcher semantics, exit-code handling, and merge precedence live in `dsh-hook-protocol`; each bridge only parses config, builds dialect payloads, and maps outcomes. Per-file coverage includes config branches plus end-to-end mappings through a real loop, `dsh-bash-local`, and shell scripts, while a real-Loader smoke guards the package export shape. Native plugins bypass the wire protocol and return typed decisions directly.