KeiSeiKit-1.0/skills/hooks-control/SKILL.md

name	description	argument-hint
hooks-control	Runtime enable/disable of KeiSeiKit hooks via env vars (v0.15.1). Click-only wizard that emits shell `export` / `unset` commands for the user to paste. Supports per-hook disable, profile switch (full / advisory-off / minimal / off), or full re-enable. Does NOT execute anything — user controls their shell.	(none — fully click-driven)

Hooks Control — Runtime Hook Enable/Disable

When to use

• Temporarily disabling noisy advisory hooks for the current shell session without editing ~/.claude/settings.json.
• Switching hook profiles (full / advisory-off / minimal / off) for a focused debugging session.
• Re-enabling hooks after a session where they were selectively turned off.

Click-only wizard. Helps you toggle KeiSeiKit hooks for the current shell session via env vars, without editing ~/.claude/settings.json. The skill emits shell commands; it NEVER runs them.

Two env vars are honoured by every kit-shipped hook (v0.15.1+):

Var	Meaning
KEI_DISABLED_HOOKS	Comma- or space-list of hook base names (no .sh). Matching is tokenized exact-match (v0.15.1 fix — earlier versions used substring-glob, which let foo-all-bar disable every hook). The literal all token still disables every hook.
KEI_HOOK_PROFILE	One of full (default), advisory-off, minimal, off.

Profile	What stays on
full (default)	Every hook
advisory-off	Disables pure-stderr advisories: recurrence-suggest, citation-verify, error-spike-detector, milestone-commit-hook.
minimal	Only the four kit-shipped hooks needed for structural integrity or observability: no-hand-edit-agents, assemble-validate, agent-fork-logger, session-end-dump. User-global safety hooks (, `secrets-guard`, , ``) are not shipped by the kit but are respected when present in ~/.claude/hooks/.
off	Every hook off (escape hatch — use when debugging hook interactions).

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Pipeline (one phase, up to 2 AskUserQuestion batches)

Phase 1 — Show state + pick action

Print current state:

Current KEI_DISABLED_HOOKS: <value or "(unset)">
Current KEI_HOOK_PROFILE:   <value or "full (default)">
Active kit-shipped hooks:   <list of 9 minus disabled set>

AskUserQuestion — What do you want to do?

1. Disable specific hook(s) — this shell session only
2. Switch profile — full / advisory-off / minimal / off
3. Re-enable everything — clear both env vars
4. Show state only — emit no commands

Phase 2a — Hook multi-select (if picked 1)

AskUserQuestion multi-select over the 10 kit-shipped hook names: assemble-agents, assemble-validate, no-hand-edit-agents, tomd-preread, agent-fork-logger, orchestrator-dirty-check, site-wysiwyd-check, error-spike-detector, milestone-commit-hook, session-end-dump.

Emit:

# Disable selected hooks for this shell session:
export KEI_DISABLED_HOOKS=<comma-joined-names>

For persistence, tell the user to paste into ~/.zshrc / ~/.bashrc by hand. Do NOT edit rc files.

Phase 2b — Profile picker (if picked 2)

AskUserQuestion over full / advisory-off / minimal / off. Emit:

# Switch profile for this shell session:
export KEI_HOOK_PROFILE=<choice>

Phase 2c — Re-enable everything (if picked 3)

Emit directly (no further question):

# Clear all runtime hook overrides (back to full / everything on):
unset KEI_DISABLED_HOOKS KEI_HOOK_PROFILE

Phase 2d — State only (if picked 4)

Stop after the state block.

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Rules

• Click-only. Every decision is AskUserQuestion. No free-text.
• Never execute. The skill prints shell commands as code blocks; the user runs them. Any export from a tool call would evaporate at skill exit — the shell running hooks is a subshell.
• No rc edits. If the user wants persistence, we say "paste into your shell rc". The skill MUST NOT modify ~/.zshrc / ~/.bashrc.
• RULE 0.4 — no invented hook names. Only the 10 names in Phase 2a are valid choices. Never suggest a name not in the kit.
• RULE -1 — NO DOWNGRADE. If the user asks "can I silence all safety hooks?", present tradeoffs; point at KEI_HOOK_PROFILE=off with a warning that sensitive-content and generated-file protections also go down.

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Final report

=== HOOKS-CONTROL REPORT ===
Action:     <picked option>
Commands:   <N lines emitted>
Scope:      current shell session (unless pasted into rc)
Verify:     `env | grep KEI_` after pasting
Undo:       unset KEI_DISABLED_HOOKS KEI_HOOK_PROFILE

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References

• hooks/*.sh — each kit hook sources the v0.15.1 runtime-controls block
• README.md → "Runtime hook controls" section
• ~/.claude/rules/recurrence-escalate.md — severity ladder notes that hooks can be silenced at runtime, no rule deletion required