Hooks -- Making Claude Code Do Things Automatically

Your Claude Code setup has no hooks configured. That’s the first thing to fix. Hooks are shell commands that fire automatically at lifecycle events -- before a tool runs, after a file is written, when a task finishes. Claude cannot reason around them. Four hooks worth adding right now.

How-To May 23, 2026  ·  12 min listen  ·  Claude Code series, ep. 3

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1 Foundation -- How to Think About the Terminal 12 min 2 Agents -- How to Do Ten Things at Once 11 min 3 Hooks -- Making Claude Code Do Things Automatically 12 min