The Five Hooks That Change How You Ship With Claude Code (opens in new tab)

The dotfiles piece from May 22 named hooks as one component of a personal AI stack and moved on. They deserve more than a passing mention. Hooks are the primitive that turns taste into code — the editor's auto-format-on-save for AI work, run on the agent's actions instead of yours. Anthropic's hooks documentation lists eight event types. Most published examples wire up one of them, demo a tiny safety check, and stop. The real payoff is in pairing the right hook to the right invariant for your...