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Claude Code hooks fail on Windows, exposing users to risks

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A technical post details how Claude Code's safety hooks can fail on Windows, potentially allowing unintended actions. The author outlines nine specific ways these hooks can malfunction, often due to differences in shell execution, path separators, or exit code handling compared to other operating systems. The article provides a script to test these failures and offers a PowerShell example of a hook that correctly blocks destructive commands. AI

IMPACT Potential security risks for Windows users of Claude Code due to malfunctioning safety hooks.

RANK_REASON Technical post detailing a specific failure mode in a software tool's functionality.

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Claude Code hooks fail on Windows, exposing users to risks

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  1. dev.to — Claude Code tag TIER_1 English(EN) · Suyann ·

    Your Claude Code hooks probably don't fire on Windows — a 60-second test and the nine ways they fail open

    <p>If you run Claude Code on Windows, there is a good chance that a <code>PreToolUse</code> hook you believe is protecting something is never being spawned — and Claude Code reports that, at best, as a "non-blocking error" that most people never notice. This post collects what th…

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