Use it when you need to inspect or replace the exact model-facing prompt. The prompt input contains the user prompt after any userPromptSubmitted hooks have run, while transformedPrompt also contains runtime-generated context such as <current_datetime>.
Input and output
| Input field | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
sessionId | string | Runtime session ID |
timestamp | date/time | Time the hook was invoked |
cwd / workingDirectory | string | Current working directory |
prompt | string | Prompt after user hooks |
transformedPrompt | string | Model-facing prompt after runtime transformations |
Return no value to leave the transformed prompt unchanged. Return modifiedTransformedPrompt to replace the content that is stored in session history and sent to the model.
Examples
TypeScript
const session = await client.createSession({
hooks: {
onUserPromptTransformed: async (input) => ({
modifiedTransformedPrompt: redact(input.transformedPrompt),
}),
},
});
Python
session = await client.create_session(
hooks={
"on_user_prompt_transformed": lambda input_data, invocation: {
"modifiedTransformedPrompt": redact(input_data["transformedPrompt"])
}
}
)
Go
session, err := client.CreateSession(ctx, &copilot.SessionConfig{
Hooks: &copilot.SessionHooks{
OnUserPromptTransformed: func(input copilot.UserPromptTransformedHookInput, invocation copilot.HookInvocation) (*copilot.UserPromptTransformedHookOutput, error) {
return &copilot.UserPromptTransformedHookOutput{
ModifiedTransformedPrompt: copilot.String(redact(input.TransformedPrompt)),
}, nil
},
},
})
.NET
var session = await client.CreateSessionAsync(new SessionConfig
{
Hooks = new SessionHooks
{
OnUserPromptTransformed = (input, invocation) =>
Task.FromResult<UserPromptTransformedHookOutput?>(new()
{
ModifiedTransformedPrompt = Redact(input.TransformedPrompt),
}),
},
});
Java
var hooks = new SessionHooks().setOnUserPromptTransformed((input, invocation) ->
CompletableFuture.completedFuture(
new UserPromptTransformedHookOutput(redact(input.transformedPrompt()))));
var session = client.createSession(new SessionConfig().setHooks(hooks)).get();
Rust
#[async_trait]
impl SessionHooks for MyHooks {
async fn on_user_prompt_transformed(
&self,
input: UserPromptTransformedInput,
_ctx: HookContext,
) -> Option<UserPromptTransformedOutput> {
Some(UserPromptTransformedOutput {
modified_transformed_prompt: Some(redact(&input.transformed_prompt)),
})
}
}
let session = client
.create_session(SessionConfig::default().with_hooks(Arc::new(MyHooks)))
.await?;
The replacement is persisted as the user message content, so resumed sessions replay the modified content unchanged.