# Motivation Make hook display less noisy and more useful by keeping transient hook activity out of permanent history unless there is useful output, preserving visibility for meaningful hook work, and making completed hook severity easier to scan. Also addresses some of the concerns in https://github.com/openai/codex/issues/15497 # Changes ## Demo https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/9d8cebd4-a502-4c95-819c-c806c0731288 Reverse spec for the behavior changes in this branch: ## Hook Lifecycle Rendering - Hook start events no longer write permanent history rows like `Running PreToolUse hook`. - Running hooks now render in a dedicated live hook area above the composer. It's similar to the active cell we use for tool calls but its a separate lane. - Running hook rows use the existing animation setting. ## Hook Reveal Timing - We wait 300ms before showing running hook rows and linger for up to 600ms once visible. - This is so fast hooks don't flash a transient `Running hook` row before user can read it every time. - If a fast hook completes with meaningful output, only the completed hook result is written to history. - If a fast hook completes successfully with no output, it leaves no visible trace. ## Completed Hook Output - Completed hooks with output are sticky, for example `• SessionStart hook (completed)`. - Hook output entries are rendered under that row with stable prefixes: `warning:`, `stop:`, `feedback:`, `hook context:`, and `error:`. - Blocked hooks show feedback entries, for example `• PreToolUse hook (blocked)` followed by `feedback: ...`. - Failed hooks show error entries, for example `• PostToolUse hook (failed)` followed by `error: ...`. - Stopped hooks show stop entries and remain visually treated as non-success. ## Parallel Hook Behavior - Multiple simultaneously running hooks can be tracked in one live hook cell. - Adjacent running hooks with the same hook event name and same status message collapse into a count, for example `• Running 3 PreToolUse hooks: checking command policy`. - Running hooks with different event names or different status messages remain separate rows. ## Hook Run Identity - `PreToolUse` and `PostToolUse` hook run IDs now include the tool call ID which prevents concurrent tool-use hooks from sharing a run ID and clobbering each other in the UI. - This ID scoping applies to tool-use hooks only; other hook event types keep their existing run identity behavior. ## App-Server Hook Notifications - App-server `HookStarted` and `HookCompleted` notifications use the same live hook rendering path as core hook events. - `UserPromptSubmit` hook notifications now render through the same completed hook output format, including warning and stop entries.
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