You'll notice
A plugin hooks.json with permission hooks outside the hooks key now throws instead of loading malformed config.
The same guard now applies to plugin hooks.json manifests: if PreToolUse or PermissionRequest appear outside the hooks key, or hooks isn't a proper object mapping event names to matcher arrays, loading now throws instead of proceeding with malformed config.
Names in the bundlehooks.json
The entry above is what we published on the day. These lines were added later, as Anthropic's own pages caught up, and they sit beside the original rather than replacing it.
Confirmed since
Anthropic's documentation has since written up hooks.json, on Plugins reference.
| `hooks` | string\|array\|object | Hook config paths or inline config | `"./my-extra-hooks.json"` |plugins-reference see the edit
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Anthropic's documentation has since written up hooks.json, on Plugins reference.