Deterministic Lifecycle Hooks

Forge, a coding agent, has these four entries in its harness configuration:

{
  "hooks": [
    { "event": "beforeTool", "tool": "run a command", "run": "policy/check-command" },
    { "event": "afterTool", "tool": "edit a file", "run": "lint/changed-file" },
    { "event": "afterTool", "tool": "any write tool", "run": "audit/append-line" },
    { "event": "beforeStop", "run": "tests/affected" }
  ]
}

The model never reads this file and cannot skip these programs. Whenever Forge edits a file, the harness runs the second one, a linter, which finds style faults and simple errors