Your Claude Code policy hook probably fails open. Here's how to test it

Fri, 09 Oct 2026 07:03:00 +0000

You wrote a PreToolUse hook to stop force pushes. It works: you asked Claude to force push a scratch branch and got your block message. Then a teammate clones the repo on a fresh laptop with no jq, and the same hook quietly stops blocking anything. Nothing on screen tells them.

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Your Claude Code policy hook probably fails open. Here's how to test it