Guide Intermediate
Skills vs Subagents vs Hooks: When to Use Each in Claude Code
Skills vs subagents vs hooks in Claude Code, answered: what each one does, context cost, when to pick which, how they combine, plus CLAUDE.md, MCP and plugins.
#hooks
12 resources tagged “hooks”.
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- Guide Beginner
What Is a Claude Kit? How to Build Your Own Claude Toolkit
A Claude kit is your bundle of skills, subagents, hooks, MCP servers and prompts. What goes in one, what happened to Claudekit.cc, and how to build your own.
- Tool Plugin
CC Safety Net: Block Destructive Commands in Claude Code
CC Safety Net is a Claude Code plugin hook that blocks destructive commands like git reset --hard and rm -rf, plus access to secrets, before a tool call runs.
★ 1,768 - Tool Kit
Claude Code Templates: Agents, Commands, Hooks, MCPs
Claude Code Templates (aitmpl.com) is an npx CLI and catalog to install agents, commands, hooks, settings, MCPs and skills, plus analytics. Uses, caveats.
★ 32,862 - Tool Plugin
Claude-Mem: Persistent Memory Plugin for Claude Code
Claude-Mem captures what Claude does in each session, compresses it into searchable observations and injects relevant context into later sessions.
★ 102,740 - Tool Plugin
Context Mode: Keep Tool Output Out of Claude's Context
Context Mode is a Claude Code plugin that runs tool output through sandboxed tools and a local search index so raw data stays out of your context window.
★ 32,092 - Tool Plugin
ECC (Everything Claude Code): Agents, Skills and Hooks Plugin
ECC, formerly everything-claude-code, is an MIT plugin with 71 agents, 311 skills, hooks, rules and AgentShield scanning for Claude Code. Install and caveats.
★ 287,801 - Tool Plugin
Explanatory Output Style Plugin: Learn While Claude Codes
Anthropic's explanatory-output-style plugin restores the old Explanatory style via a SessionStart hook, so Claude adds short Insight notes as it codes.
- Tool Plugin
Hookify: Create Claude Code Hooks from Plain Markdown Rules
Hookify is Anthropic's Claude Code plugin that turns plain-language requests into regex-based hook rules stored as Markdown files that warn on or block actions.
- Tool Plugin
Plannotator: Review and Annotate Claude Code Plans in a Browser
Plannotator opens Claude Code plans, docs and diffs in a local browser UI so you can annotate them and send feedback straight back to the agent. Install, pros.
★ 9,607 - Tool Plugin
Plugin Dev: Anthropic's Toolkit for Building Claude Plugins
plugin-dev is Anthropic's toolkit for building Claude Code plugins: seven skills on hooks, MCP, commands and agents, plus a guided create-plugin workflow.
- Tool Plugin
Ralph Loop Plugin: Run Claude Code in a Self-Repeating Loop
ralph-loop is Anthropic's plugin for the Ralph Wiggum technique: a Stop hook re-feeds one prompt so Claude keeps iterating until a completion promise appears.