[BUG] if-scoped PreToolUse hook fires unconditionally and doesn't actually block, but reports a stale "blocked" result a turn late

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What's Wrong?

Impact: an if-scoped PreToolUse hook currently provides no real protection (never actually blocks) while producing confusing, delayed false-positive messages that look like the assistant froze.

What Should Happen?

Expected: the hook only runs (and only blocks) when the Bash command text actually matches the if glob pattern.

Actual (confirmed from the session's own transcript JSONL, three separate occurrences):

The if filter isn't enforced — the hook's command executed on Bash calls whose text contained neither delete_item nor Remove-Item anywhere, verified programmatically against the raw tool_use.input.command string.
Despite the hook echoing {"continue": false, ...}, the gated Bash tool call was not actually blocked — in all three cases the underlying command ran to completion and returned its real result (e.g. a Python traceback, or a successful script output) before the hook_stopped_continuation event was recorded.
The hook_stopped_continuation record is logged at the same timestamp as the tool call's own completion, but is surfaced to the user as a message in a subsequent turn — disconnected from the tool call that supposedly triggered it. From the user's side this presented as the assistant appearing to hang/freeze, with an unexplained "deletion blocked" message showing up out of context afterward.

Error Messages/Logs

Steps to Reproduce

Repro steps:

Add the hook above to ~/.claude/settings.json.
Run any Bash tool call whose command text does not contain delete_item or Remove-Item.
Observe: the hook fires anyway (hook_success attachment in the transcript), the Bash command still completes normally, and a hook_stopped_continuation message appears attached to a later turn.

Claude Model

Sonnet (default)

Is this a regression?

I don't know

Last Working Version

_No response_

Claude Code Version

2.1.221

Platform

Anthropic API

Operating System

Windows

Terminal/Shell

PowerShell

Additional Information

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