Free Lesson
Add Guardrails with Claude Code Hooks
30 min
Nov 8, 2026 5:00 PM
What you'll learn
Choose what belongs in a hook
Decide which rules need enforcement rather than instruction, and why.
Write a hook that blocks rather than warns
Build a gate that actually stops the action instead of logging a complaint.
Debug a hook firing at the wrong time
Fix the common misconfigurations that make hooks fire too often or never.
Why this topic matters
Instructions are suggestions. Hooks are rules the agent cannot skip. Formatting, test runs, forbidden commands, approval gates before anything touches production. Most people try to enforce this with longer and longer instruction files, which works until the one time it does not.
