A fourth seam, for the caller that spawns no process

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Closes #63.

The shim decides by argv[0], and that holds for exactly as long as publishing
means running a command. An agent reaching a forge through an MCP server sends a
pull-request body over HTTPS from inside its own process: no command, no
argv[0], no link to install, and prevent-ai-author, the private-names
guards and the credentials rules read nothing.

uphold hook <harness> is that seam without the process. The harness hands over
the pending call as JSON on stdin and reads a verdict back, and the rules
consulted are the ones scan --text and guard --text consult -- through the
same functions, because a literal a commit message is refused for and a tool
call is allowed for would be two rules wearing one id.

// ~/.claude/settings.json
{"hooks": {"PreToolUse": [
  {"matcher": "mcp__github__.*",
   "hooks": [{"type": "command", "command": "uphold hook claude-code"}]}
]}}

The three decisions, none of them obvious

Could-not-look is the ordinary case at this seam. Every other seam requires
a policy and exits 2 without one, which is right when a git hook runs in the
repository whose policy applies by construction. A tool call is made from
wherever the session started: a superproject whose policy is deliberately not
borrowed, a scratch directory, a checkout with no policy/ at all. Refusing
there blocks routine work everywhere and gets the matcher deleted;
psychological-acceptability names that decay. Passing silently reports an
unknown as a pass, which explicit-unknown refuses. So the halves split by what
each needs -- the host-identity rules run anyway, carrying the fallback
scan --text already documents for exactly this case, and the guards do not run
and say so on stderr.

The exit code is not uphold's to choose. Claude Code reads a refusal out of a
JSON document on stdout and treats a non-zero status as a failure of the hook
rather than a verdict on the call, so exiting 1 to mean refused would let the
body through with a complaint attached. The refusal travels in the document and
is printed to stderr as well, so a person running this by hand reads the report.
Exit 2 keeps its meaning for the two failures that are uphold's own: a harness
this binary does not describe, and an event that is not JSON.

The field names are not a list. Every string under the input pointer is
read, at any depth. A server decides what to call the field holding a body, and
a table of those names is a table missing the one a new server just added --
silently, and in the green direction.

Scope kept

• Which calls arrive is the harness's matcher, not a second one here that
  would be free to disagree with it.
• The shapes are data, one row per harness: two pointers, a refusal
  document, where the report goes inside it, and the code that harness reads as
  blocked. A name the table does not carry is refused and the known ones are
  listed, because none of those five values is derivable from a name.
• This does not replace the shim. The shim reaches a human at a terminal, a
  CI step and a script, whatever launched them; the hook reaches every transport
  a harness can make and none of it when the harness is a different one. Neither
  contains the other.

Tests

tests/hook_cli.rs, eight cases, all through the binary because the contract is
what the harness sees: the refusal is a document on stdout at exit 0, a clean
call is silent, the identity rules still refuse without a policy and the reduced
coverage is stated, an unknown harness and a malformed event are both exit 2 and
neither is a pass, a string under a field name nothing has heard of is still
read, and a call carrying no text is allowed without looking further.

Three unit tests in src/hook.rs cover the one thing the refusal document must
survive: the text that caused it, quotes and newlines included.

Full suite green, clippy clean under the crate's lint profile, prek run --all-files passes including this repository's own content policy, guards and
enforcement claims.

Summary by CodeRabbit

• New Features

  • Added the uphold hook claude-code command for evaluating pending tool calls from JSON input.
  • Added support for recursive text checks, repository policies, host-identity safeguards, and harness-compatible refusal responses.
  • Documented Claude Code configuration and hook integration behavior.

• Bug Fixes

  • Improved text-checking result handling and failure reporting.

• Chores

  • Incremented the package version from 1.5.0 to 1.6.0.

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The change adds uphold hook claude-code. It reads a JSON tool-call event from stdin, checks nested string values with existing text rules, and returns Claude Code refusal JSON. It also adds CLI integration, documentation, tests, and a package version update.

Changes

Claude Code hook enforcement

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Hook contracts and shared text failures src/hook.rs, src/text.rs	The hook defines Claude Code event and refusal shapes, extracts nested strings, and builds JSON-safe refusal documents. Text checks now expose reusable failures.
Hook execution and CLI dispatch src/hook.rs, src/main.rs	uphold hook claude-code validates the harness, reads stdin JSON, applies identity and repository checks, and emits clean or refusal results.
Integration coverage and documented contract tests/hook_cli.rs, README.md, docs/REFERENCE.md, Cargo.toml	Tests cover refusal, clean calls, missing policy, invalid input, unknown harnesses, nested strings, and empty input. Documentation describes the seam and Claude Code configuration. The package version changes to 1.6.0.

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Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to fedbc

The new hook can treat missing or non-object tool_input as a clean call, allowing malformed requests to bypass policy checks instead of returning its documented failure. Merge should wait for field validation and corresponding exit-2 tests.

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant ClaudeCode
  participant UpholdCLI
  participant HookRun
  participant TextFailures
  ClaudeCode->>UpholdCLI: Send JSON tool-call event
  UpholdCLI->>HookRun: Run claude-code hook
  HookRun->>TextFailures: Check extracted strings
  TextFailures-->>HookRun: Return failures
  HookRun-->>UpholdCLI: Return refusal JSON or clean result
  UpholdCLI-->>ClaudeCode: Write stdout JSON and stderr report

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