Claude Code has a hook system most people never touch. Here are two hooks I use daily - one for secrets, one for notifications. Secret Guard 🛡️ A Claude Code hook that programmatically stops Claude from accessing your local secrets. Much more reliable than just telling Claude not to touch them. Use it by copying the secret-guard hook from .claude/hooks/ and the matching PreToolUse entry from .claude/settings.json in the repo into your project, then chmod +x .claude/hooks/secret-guard . Claude picks it up on next start. What's guarded by default: mainstream SQL databases, JavaScript and PHP framework env files, AWS credentials, Ansible Vault, and any env var that looks like a token, password, key, secret, or JWT. Fully configurable - see the README for details. Stop Notification 🔔 A Claude Code hook that fires a desktop notification every time Claude finishes a turn. Handy when you let it run a long task in the background and want to know the moment it's done instead of polling the terminal.…