--hooks-dir
A Claude Code CLI flag, read out of the shipped bundle. No mined inventory carries it: everything below comes from what this site has written about it.
The runner now has Windows errors for hooks and orchestrator mode, but they never fire.
Not Anthropic's. This is the line from the earliest changelog entry here that named it, v2.1.229.
In the changelogs
3Releases whose published page names --hooks-dir.
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v2.1.229
Windows guards for runner hooks that may not be reachable
The runner now has Windows errors for hooks and orchestrator mode, but they never fire.
named in this entry, found in this entry's text
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v2.1.229
Windows guard for self-hosted runner hooks is present but never fires
Runner hook errors saying hooks need Linux or macOS exist but can never trigger.
found in this entry's text
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v2.1.229
Self-hosted runner accepts a settings file, and rejects hooks and orchestrator mode on Windows
The runner can pass a settings file to sessions; its Windows hooks guard never actually fires.
named in this entry, found in this entry's text
First cited
2The earliest release whose published evidence quoted --hooks-dir was v2.1.229, 12 Aug 2026. That is the oldest release this project wrote about it, so it is a floor on the name's age and not the release that introduced it. It is not a presence reading: which builds carried the name is the table below.
Presence across releases
0The miner has never read a build containing this name. It is here because a changelog entry of ours names it, which is evidence that it existed and not evidence of which releases carried it. The inventory starts at v2.1.138 and everything older than that was never mined.
Read out of the published npm bundle release by release, and out of Anthropic's own documentation as this site captured it. Nothing on this page is a description anybody here wrote about what the CLI flag does. All CLI flags.