Hooks is a production-ready Claude Code skill (quality score 70/100) in the engineering-misc sub-category. It ships as a SKILL.md file that Claude Code auto-discovers under ~/.claude/skills/hooks/ and loads when your prompt matches the skill's trigger.
When to invoke it: Use when creating, renaming, wiring, reviewing, or debugging hooks, hook matchers, JSON payload handling, lifecycle reminders, autofix behavior, or safety gates.
The Hooks skill is built for software engineers, backend developers, full-stack teams, and technical leads building and maintaining production systems. It is part of the open ClaudSkills registry, a community-curated catalog of 15,000+ capabilities you can install for Claude Code — the Claude CLI agent.
mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills/hooks curl -L https://claudskills.com/skills/hooks/SKILL.md \ -o ~/.claude/skills/hooks/SKILL.md
Or just download SKILL.md directly and drop it into ~/.claude/skills/hooks/. Claude Code auto-discovers it on next session.
Skills live at ~/.claude/skills/hooks/SKILL.md on macOS/Linux, or %USERPROFILE%\.claude\skills\hooks\SKILL.md on Windows. See the full install guide for step-by-step instructions.
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