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What harness-evolver runs automatically, and when. A hook is a command Claude Code fires at a fixed moment, without you asking for it.

From plugin
harness-evolver
579 skills6 agents1 hook

Claude Code

> /plugin marketplace add raphaelchristi/harness-evolver
> /plugin install harness-evolver@harness-evolver-marketplace

What fires, and when

SessionStart

Fires once when a session begins, and again after a context compaction. It is where a plugin sets up its environment, or restores state the compaction dropped.

  • bash "${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/hooks/session-start.sh"
Read hooks/hooks.json

In the plugin's words

How harness-evolver describes its own hook set.

Harness Evolver — ensures Python deps and env vars are available each session

Where it lives

  • hooks/session-start.shRunsGitHub
    Read the script
    #!/usr/bin/env bash
    # Harness Evolver — SessionStart hook
    # Ensures Python venv, langsmith, langsmith-cli, and env vars are ready.
    # Runs silently on every session start. Installs deps only if missing.
    
    set -euo pipefail
    
    # Resolve paths — plugin root is set by Claude Code
    PLUGIN_ROOT="${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT:-}"
    PLUGIN_DATA="${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_DATA:-}"
    
    # Fallback: if running outside plugin system (npx install), use legacy paths
    if [ -z "$PLUGIN_ROOT" ]; then
        PLUGIN_ROOT="$HOME/.evolver"
        PLUGIN_DATA="$HOME/.evolver"
    fi
    
    TOOLS_DIR="$PLUGIN_ROOT/tools"
    VENV_DIR="$PLUGIN_DATA/venv"
    VENV_PY="$VENV_DIR/bin/python"
    
    # --- 1. Create venv if missing ---
    if [ ! -f "$VENV_PY" ]; then
        if command -v uv >/dev/null 2>&1; then
            uv venv "$VENV_DIR" >/dev/null 2>&1
        else
            python3 -m venv "$VENV_DIR" >/dev/null 2>&1
        fi
    fi
    
    # --- 2. Install langsmith if missing ---
    if [ -f "$VENV_PY" ]; then
        "$VENV_PY" -c "import langsmith" 2>/dev/null || {
            if command -v uv >/dev/null 2>&1; then
                uv pip install --python "$VENV_PY" langsmith >/dev/null 2>&1
            else
                "$VENV_DIR/bin/pip" install --upgrade langsmith >/dev/null 2>&1 || \
                "$VENV_PY" -m pip install --upgrade langsmith >/dev/null 2>&1
            fi
        }
    fi
    
    # --- 3. Install langsmith-cli if missing ---
    command -v langsmith-cli >/dev/null 2>&1 || {
        if command -v uv >/dev/null 2>&1; then
            uv tool install langsmith-cli >/dev/null 2>&1
        else
            pip install langsmith-cli >/dev/null 2>&1 || pip3 install langsmith-cli >/dev/null 2>&1
        fi
    } || true
    
    # --- 4. Load API key from credentials file if not in env ---
    if [ -z "${LANGSMITH_API_KEY:-}" ]; then
        if [ "$(uname)" = "Darwin" ]; then
            CREDS="$HOME/Library/Application Support/langsmith-cli/credentials"
        else
            CREDS="$HOME/.config/langsmith-cli/credentials"
        fi
        if [ -f "$CREDS" ]; then
            KEY=$(grep '^LANGSMITH_API_KEY=' "$CREDS" 2>/dev/null | head -1 | cut -d= -f2-)
            if [ -n "$KEY" ]; then
                echo "export LANGSMITH_API_KEY=\"$KEY\"" >> "$CLAUDE_ENV_FILE"
            fi
        fi
    fi
    
    # --- 5. Export env vars for skills ---
    if [ -n "${CLAUDE_ENV_FILE:-}" ]; then
        echo "export EVOLVER_TOOLS=\"$TOOLS_DIR\"" >> "$CLAUDE_ENV_FILE"
        echo "export EVOLVER_PY=\"$VENV_PY\"" >> "$CLAUDE_ENV_FILE"
    fi
    

Read the script before you install anything that runs on your machine. This is the one part of a plugin that acts without being asked.

@raphaelchristi
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Point at any LLM agent codebase. Harness Evolver will autonomously improve it — prompts, routing, tools, architecture — using multi-agent evolution with LangSmith as the evaluation backend.

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Questions about the hooks in harness-evolver.

Which coding agents can use the hooks in harness-evolver?
The hooks in harness-evolver install in Claude Code and Cursor: each runs Claude Code hooks from .claude/settings.json, so copy the hooks there.