endorlabs.comarticleHooks are the control plane for the agentic development lifecycle | Blog | Endor Labs
Endor Labs blog post arguing that lifecycle hooks — not system prompts, skills, or MCP tools — are the only enforceable control plane for coding agents, because hooks intercept consequential actions (shell commands, file writes, credential access, package installs) before execution and return a deterministic allow/block/escalate verdict the agent cannot opt out of or reason around. It frames platform engineering's "golden path" concept applied to the agentic development lifecycle (ADLC), positioning hooks as the mechanism to restore reliability and observability that autonomous coding agents otherwise erode.
TL;DR Endor Labs argues that pre-execution hooks, not prompts/skills/MCP, are the only real enforcement layer for governing what coding agents are allowed to do.
Organisations named here
- DORA
Technologies named here
- Claude Code
- Model Context Protocol
- Endor Labs
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- Hooks as a control plane for coding agents
- In-loop enforcement
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