Fix Stop-hook loop: honor stop_hook_active per Claude Code contract

The Stop deep pass (runStopHook) never read the stop_hook_active field
from the Claude Code Stop-hook event. When a prior fire kept the turn
alive via hookSpecificOutput.additionalContext and the agent legitimately
declined to act, the hook re-scanned and re-blocked every re-invocation
until Claude Code's consecutive-block cap force-ended the turn (issue #400).

Read stop_hook_active early in runStopHook, right after the event is
parsed and before any scan, and exit 0 with no output when it is true. The
prior fire already surfaced the findings; acting on them is the agent's
call. Only Claude Code sends this field, so the strict === true is a no-op
for other harnesses. runHook (PostToolUse) and hook-before-edit.mjs
(PreToolUse) never receive the field, so they are unchanged.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Paul Bakaus
2026-07-22 17:34:20 -07:00
co-authored by Claude Fable 5
parent 9b7f7ffbba
commit 47aff2e0be
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@@ -1960,6 +1960,20 @@ export async function runStopHook({ stdinJson, env = {}, cwd = process.cwd(), no
return result({ skipped: 'stdin-empty', durationMs: Date.now() - started });
}
// Claude Code's Stop-hook contract: `stop_hook_active` is true when this
// hook is being re-invoked only because a prior invocation kept the turn
// alive (here, via hookSpecificOutput.additionalContext). Re-scanning and
// re-blocking now would loop until Claude Code's consecutive-block cap
// force-ends the turn (issue #400). The prior fire already surfaced the
// findings; whether to act on them is the agent's call. Exit fast with no
// output before any scan. Only Claude Code sends this field; other
// harnesses omit it, so the strict `=== true` is a no-op for them. This
// guard makes the loop impossible regardless of the finding cache key's
// line-number sensitivity (out of scope here; see findingCacheKey).
if (event.stop_hook_active === true) {
return result({ skipped: 'stop-hook-active', durationMs: Date.now() - started });
}
const harness = resolveHarness(env, event);
audit.harness = harness;