Cursor hooks for production agent workflows: block, audit, and verify actions
Cursor hooks let you observe, control, and extend an agent session with scripts that communicate over JSON. For a production repository, the useful pattern is not “run a script after every prompt.” It is to put a small, explicit policy layer around risky actions: audit file edits, block unsafe shell commands, scan outputs for secrets, and record enough evidence to review what happened.
Hooks run as spawned processes and can be configured at the project or user level. Cursor’s official hooks documentation defines the lifecycle events, JSON-over-stdio contract, exit-code behavior, cloud-agent limits, and configuration examples. This guide turns those primitives into a workflow you can introduce without making the agent impossible to use.
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