Hook Action Reporting

Surface the Status

• A SessionStart hook emits an additionalContext payload beginning with Session-start status — only when it has a status to report
• Many outcomes emit nothing (non-repo, throttled freshness check, no matching dependency)
• At session start, collect every such payload the context carries (there may be none) and relay each in full as one block, before the first substantive action
• A payload may span several lines, a marker line plus continuation lines such as an update list or a NOTE:
• Relay the whole payload, never only its marker line
• A payload's relayable status ends at a line beginning Agent context, not a session-start status — do not relay it to the user
• Text after that line is agent context, not a status
• Read the agent context and act on it per its governing rule
• Never relay the agent context
• Report the block once per session, at the start, never repeating it every turn
• Relay the payloads verbatim, without padding or restating them as your own analysis

Act on What It Names

• A payload may name an action: a branch to sync, a pinned dependency to fix, an update that failed
• After relaying the block, act on any such action per its governing rule
• An all-green status needs only the report, no further action

Reconciliation With response-clarity

• Narrow exception for the session-start status block to rules/response-clarity.md Lead With the Action.
• Preconditions (all required):
  1. The block appears once per session, at the start, before the first substantive action
  2. It carries only the Session-start status — payloads, nothing else
• Every other turn opens with the action, no status block