Summary

End-to-end optimization of the PostToolUse hook, which fires on every tool call. Eliminates redundant process spawns, consolidates jq invocations, and backgrounds the tty write to remove render-pressure spikes.

• Baseline overhead: 93ms mean per tool call → 26ms mean
• Spike overhead: 2000-2200ms under render pressure → eliminated (non-blocking write)
• Cumulative session impact: ~20 tool calls × 93ms = 1.9s → ~20 × 26ms = 0.5s

Benchmark (Apple M3 Pro, macOS 15.4)

Measured with hyperfine --warmup 5 --runs 50.

Changes

What each change does

• Early exit: Single env var test before any source or SCRIPT_DIR resolution. Non-Warp environments (subagents, CI) exit in ~1ms.
• Inline notify: Removes subprocess to warp-notify.sh which re-sourced should-use-structured.sh and re-ran the gate. Saves a bash spawn + redundant function call.
• Single jq: Replaces 4 jq process spawns (3 in build_payload + 1 for tool_name) with a single jq -nc that reads stdin and constructs the full payload. Protocol negotiation inlined as bash arithmetic.
• Non-blocking tty: Backgrounds the printf > /dev/tty to prevent synchronous blocking when Warp's PTY is congested during heavy screen rendering.
• Robustness: Validates non-numeric protocol version (falls back to 1), strips trailing slashes for correct project name extraction, guards against empty payload from jq failure.
• Tests: 17 new tests exercise payload construction, protocol negotiation, early exits, trailing slash handling, and non-numeric env var fallback. Uses script command to capture /dev/tty output.

Design decisions

• Inline duplication over shared abstraction: PostToolUse now duplicates some logic from build-payload.sh (protocol negotiation, payload structure). Acceptable because it's the only hot-path hook (~20 calls/session vs 1-2 for others), and the shared files remain for other hooks.
• Background write safety: Notification is fire-and-forget. If a background write fails, Warp misses one Blocked→Running transition which self-corrects on the next tool call.
• should_use_structured kept for version gate: The early env var check is a fast-path for non-Warp environments only. The full function call remains to handle broken Warp builds that set the env var but can't render structured notifications.
• Empty payload guard: If jq fails (malformed stdin, binary input), the script exits cleanly instead of sending a broken OSC sequence to the terminal.

export WARP_CLI_AGENT_PROTOCOL_VERSION=1
export WARP_CLIENT_VERSION="v0.2026.04.29.08.57.preview_01"
INPUT='{"tool_name":"Read","session_id":"bench-session","cwd":"/Users/you/project"}'

# Baseline
git checkout main
hyperfine \
  --warmup 5 \
  --runs 50 \
  --shell=bash \
  -n 'PostToolUse (baseline)' \
  "echo '$INPUT' | bash plugins/warp/scripts/on-post-tool-use.sh"

# Optimized
git checkout perf/post-tool-use-optimization
hyperfine \
  --warmup 5 \
  --runs 50 \
  --shell=bash \
  -n 'PostToolUse (optimized)' \
  "echo '$INPUT' | bash plugins/warp/scripts/on-post-tool-use.sh"

# Non-Warp fast-path (env var unset)
unset WARP_CLI_AGENT_PROTOCOL_VERSION
hyperfine \
  --warmup 5 \
  --runs 50 \
  --shell=bash \
  -n 'PostToolUse (non-Warp fast exit)' \
  "echo '$INPUT' | bash plugins/warp/scripts/on-post-tool-use.sh"

# Verify payload correctness:
export WARP_CLI_AGENT_PROTOCOL_VERSION=1
export WARP_CLIENT_VERSION="v0.2026.04.29.08.57.preview_01"
echo '{"tool_name":"Read","session_id":"bench-session","cwd":"/Users/you/project"}' | \
  bash plugins/warp/scripts/on-post-tool-use.sh
# (check /dev/tty output for OSC 777 sequence with correct JSON payload)

# Run test suite:
bash plugins/warp/tests/test-hooks.sh

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Test plan

• bash plugins/warp/tests/test-hooks.sh passes (56/56)
• hyperfine: optimized 26ms mean, 17.4ms min (3.6x faster)
• hyperfine: non-Warp fast-path 12.6ms min
• Payload JSON format matches baseline output
• Trailing slash in cwd produces correct project name
• Non-numeric protocol version falls back to 1
• Empty/malformed stdin exits cleanly (no broken OSC)
• Verify notifications render correctly in Warp