How to Add Custom Hooks in Claude Code

Claude Code now supports custom hooks 🌟

What are hooks?

This feature allows us to register shell commands during Claude Code’s lifecycle.

A good analogy would be it is something similar to Git hooks.

It provides deterministic control over Claude Code’s behavior instead of relying on the LLM

For example, running automated code formatting whenever a file is changed.

And here are some of the other use cases that are mentioned in their docs

How to get started?

Anthropic has a detailed doc about how to configure, test, examples, etc.

Checkout their docs for more details on this 👉 http://docs.anthropic.com/en/docs/claude-code/hooks

Happy wiring hooks!