H03
No Claude Code hook runs at all (disableAllHooks is still set)
Symptom
Your write guard, your notification hook, nothing runs. No error, no warning. A setting you added to pause hooks for a moment may still be there.
Check it in 30 seconds
Paste into Windows PowerShell 5.1. It only creates files under your %TEMP% folder. If the last line says REPRODUCED, it happens on your machine. It calls claude once, so it takes about a minute.
$d = Join-Path $env:TEMP ('cc-trap-' + (Get-Date -Format 'yyyyMMddHHmmss')); New-Item -ItemType Directory $d -Force | Out-Null
foreach ($f in @("$env:USERPROFILE\.claude\settings.json", "$PWD\.claude\settings.json", "$PWD\.claude\settings.local.json")) {
if (Test-Path -LiteralPath $f) { try { $v = (Get-Content -LiteralPath $f -Raw -Encoding UTF8 | ConvertFrom-Json).disableAllHooks; "your settings: $f -> disableAllHooks=$v" } catch { "your settings: $f -> not valid JSON" } }
}
[IO.File]::WriteAllText("$d\deny.ps1", '[IO.File]::WriteAllText(''MARK'', ''x''); [Console]::Error.WriteLine("denied"); exit 2'.Replace('MARK', "$d\called.txt"))
$hook = 'powershell -NoProfile -ExecutionPolicy Bypass -File \"' + ($d -replace '\\', '/') + '/deny.ps1\"'
[IO.File]::WriteAllText("$d\s.json", '{"disableAllHooks":true,"hooks":{"PreToolUse":[{"matcher":"Write|Edit","hooks":[{"type":"command","command":"HOOK","onFailure":"block"}]}]}}'.Replace('HOOK', $hook))
Push-Location $d
'Use the Write tool once to create the file written.txt with the content hi. Do not retry if it is blocked.' | claude -p --settings s.json --permission-mode acceptEdits | Out-Null
Pop-Location
$w = Test-Path "$d\written.txt"; $c = Test-Path "$d\called.txt"
"deny hook with onFailure block, plus disableAllHooks true: hook called=$c, written=$w"
if ((-not $c) -and $w) { 'REPRODUCED' } else { 'NOT REPRODUCED' }
Why it happens
With "disableAllHooks": true in a settings file, Claude Code runs none of the hooks that file reaches (managed-policy hooks excepted). The value follows settings precedence: true in your user settings (~/.claude/settings.json) is overridden by false in the project's settings. A guard with onFailure: "block" does not help, because it is never called.
Fix
Remove the line (or set it to false). The first lines of the check print the value in each of your settings files. To skip hooks for a single run, pass it on the command line with --settings instead of writing it to a file.
claude -p --settings '{"disableAllHooks": true}' # skips hooks for this run only; nothing is saved
On the author's machine
a denying hook with onFailure: block, together with disableAllHooks: true, was never called and the file was written
Author's machine: Windows 11 / Windows PowerShell 5.1.26100 / Python 3.13.7 / Claude Code 2.1.304, Japanese Windows (code page 932). Checked 2026-10-20 to 22.
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Related
cc-win-kit bundles the parts that avoid these traps from the start: a write guard (with onFailure: block), an unattended runner, a doctor that scans your files and hook settings, CLAUDE.md templates and the full test suite.
Other symptoms
- PowerShell returns exit code 1 when the script exited with 2
- The second value passed with -File disappears without an error
- With -File, a,b stays one string instead of an array
- Non-ASCII text piped to claude -p, python or git arrives as ?
- Output from python or claude turns into mojibake in a variable
- Python works when run by hand but crashes under Task Scheduler or redirection
- PYTHONIOENCODING is set, but python -I ignores it
- A .ps1 with non-ASCII text fails to parse or prints mojibake
- A .cmd / .bat file runs its comment text as commands
- $variables in a powershell -Command one-liner vanish before it runs
- Get-ChildItem -Include is ignored and every file comes back
- Markdown backticks inside "..." turn into newlines and tabs
- A log that is being written shows 0 bytes
- claude -p --allowedTools swallows the prompt after it
- A Claude Code PreToolUse hook lets the write through when it times out
- A PowerShell hook called with -Command does not block Claude Code