Building My First Claude Code Hook: Closing the Hope and Pray Gap
TL;DR I had a critical gap in my Claude Code workflow. Everything was optimized except the moment Claude actually writes code. Even with auto-accept enabled, I was gambling that /complete-task would catch violations after many changes. Hooks let you inject real-time quality checks. When Claude Code hooks became available, I could finally add guardrails that run outside Claude’s context but feed results back through JSON decision control to block bad edits. ...