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+# Hook Event Vocabulary
+
+Gas City wires per-provider hook configs into a small set of coordination
+commands (`gc prime --hook`, `gc handoff --auto`, `gc nudge drain --inject`,
+`gc mail check --inject`). Each provider names its hook events differently;
+this document maps Gas City's canonical events to the provider's native
+name for each, plus where the wiring lives on disk.
+
+The mapping exists primarily so future contributors can audit coverage
+gaps at a glance — see [`gastownhall/gascity#672`](https://github.com/gastownhall/gascity/issues/672)
+("non-Claude provider parity") for the audit that motivated it.
+
+## File layout
+
+Provider hook configs live in two places:
+
+- `internal/hooks/config/claude.json` — Claude-specific settings (this directory).
+- `internal/bootstrap/packs/core/overlay/per-provider/<provider>/…` — every other
+  provider, scoped under that provider's expected dotfile path
+  (e.g. `codex/.codex/hooks.json`, `cursor/.cursor/hooks.json`).
+
+Installation walks the pack overlay during `gc start` / `gc rig boot`,
+materializing the per-provider files into each agent's working directory.
+
+## Event mapping
+
+✓ = wired today. — = not wired (either the provider does not expose
+the event, or it does but Gas City has not opted in yet).
+
+| Canonical event | claude | codex | cursor | copilot | gemini | opencode | omp | pi |
+|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
+| session start    | `SessionStart` ✓ | `SessionStart` ✓ | `sessionStart` ✓ | `sessionStart` ✓ | `SessionStart` ✓ | `session.created` ✓ | `session.created` ✓ | `session_start` ✓ |
+| pre-compaction   | `PreCompact` ✓   | `PreCompact` ✓   | `preCompact` ✓   | — (gap, #672)    | `PreCompress` ✓  | `session.compacted` ✓ | `session.compacted` ✓ | `session_compact` ✓ |
+| user prompt submit | `UserPromptSubmit` ✓ | `UserPromptSubmit` ✓ | `beforeSubmitPrompt` ✓ | `userPromptSubmitted` ✓ | — | — | `experimental.chat.system.transform` ✓ | — |
+| before agent run | —                | —                | —                | —                | `BeforeAgent` ✓  | —                | (via prompt transform) | `before_agent_start` ✓ |
+
+### Gas City command bindings
+
+For each provider where a row above is ✓, the wired command is one of:
+
+- **session start** → `gc prime --hook` (loads context, drains hooks).
+- **pre-compaction** → `gc handoff --auto "context cycle"` (capture state
+  before the provider compacts the conversation).
+- **user prompt submit** / **before agent run** → `gc nudge drain --inject`
+  and/or `gc mail check --inject` (inject pending agent-to-agent messages
+  into the upcoming prompt).
+
+Some providers fold both injection commands into a single hook entry;
+others split them. The exact wiring lives in the per-provider config —
+this README only documents the event vocabulary, not the command shape.
+
+## Adding a new provider hook
+
+1. Find the provider's native event name in its documentation. Do not
+   guess — wiring a non-existent event silently no-ops and looks fine in
+   review.
+2. Add an entry to the provider's hook config file under the right path
+   (see "File layout" above). For new providers, create the directory
+   under `internal/bootstrap/packs/core/overlay/per-provider/<provider>/`.
+3. Update the event table above with the new row or column.
+4. If the provider supports `BuiltinProviderSpec.SupportsHooks` in
+   `internal/worker/builtin/profiles.go`, flip it to `true` for that
+   provider.
+
+## Known gaps
+
+- **copilot pre-compaction** — GitHub Copilot's hook config currently
+  exposes `sessionStart` and `userPromptSubmitted` but no documented
+  pre-compaction event. Tracked under the parent audit (#672 gap 3,
+  bead `ga-10l`). If/when Copilot adds such an event, append a row here
+  and wire `gc handoff --auto` to it.