Claude Code hooks: the half of Claude Code nobody uses
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I was halfway through writing this post when I decided to fact-check myself. Opened ~/.claude/settings.json, expecting three or four hooks I'd forgotten about. There was one. A Stop hook that plays a ding and says "your turn" when Claude finishes thinking. My hooks-to-skills ratio: 1 to 42. I'm not picking on myself. This is the median. I checked seven of my own project configs after that: zero hooks each. Skills got the awesome-lists. And the silence is costing people money in tokens, missed incidents in security, and a control surface that ships in the box and never gets wired up.