Tag: hooks

All the articles with the tag "hooks".

• Every audit deleted the audit before it

  6 Sep, 2026

  A monthly job reduced three months of outcome labels to unknown, every time it ran. The row survived, the totals moved, and the only witness was a backup the job itself had just written.

• You can't measure a memory hook by the times it spoke

  20 Jul, 2026

  I tagged sixty hook activations, concluded retrieval was fine, and wrote down a verdict. Then I measured the prompts where the hook said nothing at all, and the number flipped.

• The optimization you wrote isn't the one that runs

  19 Jun, 2026

  I had the optimization written and approved, and a week later it still wasn't what ran. The fix wasn't a better design. It was making the trigger deterministic and leaving the judgment to the model.

• Anatomy of a four-minute boot

  10 Jun, 2026

  Where my Claude Code sessions actually spent their first four minutes, and what cut it to thirty seconds without losing any context. Hooks were three seconds of the problem. The model's diligence was the rest.