HOOKS

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Claude Code hooks are powerful but discovery and install is a manual JSON-paste exercise. Hookyard is a directory plus CLI that makes it one command.

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SessionStart hooks can persist env vars across Bash tool calls.

Event-driven automation with 20+ lifecycle events.

Fire when subagents spawn and finish.

Fire on task lifecycle events.

Fire when settings or CLAUDE.md files change during a session.

Fire before and after context compaction.

Run shell scripts on events with environment variable passing.

Use Claude itself to handle hook logic instead of shell scripts.

Spawn subagents to handle complex hook logic.

Run hooks in the background without blocking the session.