sessionStart  prompt hooks don't fire on  /new , and  /clear  seems to skip sessionStart entirely — naming/behavior mismatch #4365

Describe the feature or problem you'd like to solve

Invoke a skill foreach new session

Proposed solution

The  sessionStart  hook name strongly implies it fires whenever a new "session" (conversation) begins — including via  /new  and  /clear . In practice:

1. Hook entries of  "type": "prompt"  only fire on true CLI process startup ( source: "startup" ), not on  /new  ( source: "new" ) or  /clear , per the docs note: "Prompt hooks fire only for new interactive sessions... They do not fire on resume." This is confusing because  /new  is documented as "Start a new conversation" and intuitively should count as a "new interactive session."
2.  /clear  ("Abandon this session and start fresh") doesn't appear to trigger  sessionStart  at all — it's not listed among the  source  values ( "startup" | "resume" | "new" ).

This creates a real usability gap: a user-level hook meant to re-apply a session-scoped customization (e.g., auto-running a skill/mode via a prompt hook) silently stops working after  /new  or  /clear , with no indication in  /env  that anything is "missing" — the hook config is loaded, it just never fires again for these transitions.

Suggestions:
• Either make  "type": "prompt"  hooks fire for  source: "new"  (matching user expectation and documented  /new  behavior), or rename the event/restrict the docs wording so it's unambiguous that  sessionStart  (for prompt hooks) really means "process startup only."
• Clarify/confirm whether  /clear  fires  sessionStart  at all, and add it explicitly to the  source  enum if so.
• Consider a distinct event (e.g.,  conversationStart ) for  /new / /clear  transitions, separate from true process-level  sessionStart , so hook authors can target the semantics they actually need.

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