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# [Agent Hooks: The Secret to Controlling AI Agents in Your Codebase](https://htekdev.hashnode.dev/agent-hooks-controlling-ai-codebase?utm_source=hashnode&utm_medium=feed)

Instructions alone are NOT enforcement. That's the hard lesson I learned watching AI agents cheerfully ignore my carefully crafted guidelines and pollute my clean architecture with cross-layer imports. You can write the most detailed agent instructio...

Feb 21 · 7 min read · htekdev.hashnode.dev  
Updated May 11  
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