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Hooks in the Claude Agent SDK: every event, measured

The programmatic hooks you pass in options.hooks, not the shell hooks in settings.json — and the difference matters, because by default both fire in the same run. We registered a callback on all 31 events and ran it until we had the thing nobody publishes: the measured firing order.

By Andrew MercerBackgrind Blog
Hooks in the Claude Agent SDK: every event, measured

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Originally published by Backgrind Blog on Aug 10, 2026.

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