Claude Code hooks: the half of Claude Code nobody uses

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. Hooks got a footnote. And the silence is costing people mon