If Your Coding Agent Ignores Rules, You Need Hooks: Guaranteed Workflows
Cole Medin · youtube · 2026-08-27
This video explores the most underappreciated part of coding agents: Hooks. Unlike rules (guidance that can be ignored), hooks are guarantees for your workflows.
Key Points:
- Rules vs. Hooks: Rules are soft guidance; hooks are scripts triggered by specific events that ensure execution.
- Use Cases: Guaranteeing tests, security checks, and audit logs.
- Practical Tool: Introduces the hooks-create skill which generates hook scripts from a simple description of the guarantee.
Resources:
- Skills & Hooks Repo: coleam00/skills
- Reference Paper: The self-evolving harness study
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