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| author | Craig Jennings <c@cjennings.net> | 2026-05-26 12:58:14 -0500 |
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| committer | Craig Jennings <c@cjennings.net> | 2026-05-26 12:58:14 -0500 |
| commit | 9bfb13aced68e9e0778f9d46b0eeb939cef05a30 (patch) | |
| tree | 4309185cfc6d17b31ec9580cf07b31f216b6f5b3 | |
| parent | 7beb8d10451bd4c425bf71d22734a9cb1272f83c (diff) | |
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feat(hooks): hard-deny the AskUserQuestion popup machine-wide
The no-popup-menus rule in interaction.md was too easy to forget, so the popup kept slipping back into choice prompts. I added a PreToolUse hook on AskUserQuestion that denies the call outright and returns the rule as the reason, which routes choices back to inline numbered lists. Since ~/.claude/settings.json symlinks to this repo's .claude/settings.json, the hook is machine-wide and version-controlled across machines.
I documented it under the rule in interaction.md, including the consequence: the deny is unconditional, so the old "use the popup for this one" exception now needs the hook disabled via /hooks first.
| -rw-r--r-- | .claude/settings.json | 11 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | claude-rules/interaction.md | 2 |
2 files changed, 13 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/.claude/settings.json b/.claude/settings.json index 0b81559..0f76d18 100644 --- a/.claude/settings.json +++ b/.claude/settings.json @@ -8,6 +8,17 @@ "defaultMode": "bypassPermissions" }, "hooks": { + "PreToolUse": [ + { + "matcher": "AskUserQuestion", + "hooks": [ + { + "type": "command", + "command": "echo '{\"hookSpecificOutput\":{\"hookEventName\":\"PreToolUse\",\"permissionDecision\":\"deny\",\"permissionDecisionReason\":\"Popup choice menus are disabled per interaction.md (No Popup Menus for Choices) — present options inline in chat as a numbered list and ask the user to reply with a number.\"}}'" + } + ] + } + ], "PreCompact": [ { "hooks": [ diff --git a/claude-rules/interaction.md b/claude-rules/interaction.md index 7e42c44..83afc45 100644 --- a/claude-rules/interaction.md +++ b/claude-rules/interaction.md @@ -30,6 +30,8 @@ Reserve `AskUserQuestion` only when the user explicitly asks for the popup form This rule applies to all three approval gates in the `commits.md` publish flow (commit message, PR description, PR review reply): print the draft inline, then offer numbered approve / changes / edit options inline. Do not switch to the popup form for the gate even though the prior protocol referenced it. +**Enforcement:** a global `PreToolUse` hook (matcher `AskUserQuestion`) in `~/.claude/settings.json` hard-denies the popup and returns this rule as the reason — the prose alone proved too easy to forget. Because the deny is unconditional, the "use the popup for this one" exception above can't be honored in-turn; to get the popup, disable the hook via `/hooks` (or edit settings) first. + ## No Reverse-Video Highlighting in Chat Output In conversational output to the user, do not use Markdown bold (`**...**`) or inline-code spans (backtick `` `...` ``). The user's terminal renders both as reverse video, which is hard to read on the display. |