From 9bfb13aced68e9e0778f9d46b0eeb939cef05a30 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Craig Jennings <c@cjennings.net>
Date: Tue, 26 May 2026 12:58:14 -0500
Subject: 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.
---
 .claude/settings.json | 11 +++++++++++
 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+)

(limited to '.claude/settings.json')

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": [
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