Pattern
Lifecycle hooks
Run your own commands at defined points in Claude Code's lifecycle — before and after tool calls, on session and turn boundaries, on prompt submission — so policies and side effects execute deterministically rather than depending on the model choosing to perform them.
Classification Handlers fired deterministically on agent lifecycle events.
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