Your Claude agent’s hooks currently fire for every action, substantially slowing the agent even when the actions present no risk. The team wants to scope the hooks more precisely. How should you scope the hooks?
A Replace hooks with system prompt instructions on the grounds that prompt instructions can produce the same enforcement effect that hooks produce on the agent’s actions. B Scope hooks to only the high-risk actions, such as destructive operations or sensitive data access, and remove hooks from low-risk actions to balance safety with performance. C Disable all hooks while the team re-scopes them, treating the period of no hook enforcement as a temporary state during the re-scoping work. D Disable the agent during peak hours so the hook overhead does not slow the application down during the busiest periods of the day across the application’s operation. Show Answer Answer Explanation Claude Code hook configuration supports matchers and conditional filters that restrict a handler to relevant tool calls or subcommands. Applying hooks only to high-risk operations—such as destructive commands or sensitive-data access—maintains deterministic safeguards while avoiding the process overhead of executing them for low-risk actions.
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