I had good success with hooks in claude code. Personally I feel this problem was common with humans as well. We added tools like husky for git commits, for our peers to push code which was linted, type checked etc.

I feel hooks are integral part of your code harness, that’s only deterministic way to control coding agents.

I fully agree. Also started using husky before expanding further and created my own hooks. I can’t imagine myself using agents today without them, it would require a lot of babysitting.