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How to use conditional hooks in Claude Code

by Ashik Nesin Ashik Nesin

Claude Code now has support for conditional if field in hooks. It uses the permission rule syntax like Edit, Read, etc

For example, you can run the hook only for specific file pattern like formatting Javascript codes like these

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Or running a specific commands only for git like this

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Reference

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