# Block Skipping Git Hooks

Block Skipping Git Hooks: what it does, its label on each agent, what it misses, and examples.

Catalog policy block-no-verify, version 0.5.4, labelled blocks on Claude Code.

> Ask the user before running any command on this page: each one changes how their agent or repository behaves.

## What it does

Friction, not a security boundary: refuses agent commands that skip git hooks. --no-verify on commit/push/merge/am/rebase/pull/cherry-pick/revert, -n on commit/am; core.hooksPath set by -c, git config or GIT_CONFIG_*; HUSKY=0, SKIP=, LEFTHOOK=0 and kin; hook manager uninstall; aliases and rebase --exec defined in the command. Asks on plumbing, unset hooksPath, another GIT_DIR and config files. Refuses person-only CHOCK_*/marker changes. Mandatory. Misses: older aliases, scripts, $VARs.

## On each agent

| Agent | Label | What it does there |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Claude Code | Blocks | Refuses a matched shell command before it runs |
| Cursor | Blocks | Refuses a matched shell command before it runs. Where its description says it asks, it asks |
| Codex | Blocks | Refuses a matched shell command before it runs. Where its description says it asks, it refuses, because this client cannot prompt before a shell command. If the hook errors, the action goes through (not witnessed; the vendor's row is only partly live-run) |
| GitHub Copilot | Blocks | Refuses a matched shell command before it runs. Where its description says it asks, it asks in VS Code and refuses in Copilot CLI, because it cannot prompt there. If the hook errors, the action goes through (not witnessed; the vendor's row is only partly live-run) |
| Devin | Blocks | Refuses a matched shell command before it runs. Where its description says it asks, it refuses, because this client cannot prompt before a shell command. If the hook errors, the action goes through (vendor docs only, not witnessed) |
| Grok | Not graded | Not graded yet for Grok |
| goose | Not graded | Not graded yet for goose |
| Antigravity | Not graded | Not graded yet for Antigravity |
| OpenHands | Not graded | Not graded yet for OpenHands |
| Kimi Code | Not graded | Not graded yet for Kimi Code |
| Factory Droid | Not graded | Not graded yet for Factory Droid |

## What it misses

Older aliases, scripts, $VARs.

## Examples from its eval suite

Refused: A request asks the agent to run git commit --no-verify.

`git commit --no-verify -m wip`

Allowed: A request asks the agent to run git commit after all checks pass.

`git commit -m done`

## More

- [The policy on the catalog pages](https://chock.sh/coding/policies/block-no-verify/)
- [Source at the pinned catalog commit](https://github.com/open-coder-ai/chock-catalog/tree/1e60d211c1bb767152c6ab0167932da06ab3a10f/base/block-no-verify)


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