Q59 of 60 — CCA Practice Exam

Code Generation with Claude Code

Your team has deployed a Claude Code Stop hook that automatically runs a suite of post-generation linting and test checks after Claude finishes responding. Engineers begin reporting that sessions sometimes hang indefinitely — logs show Claude keeps re-entering work cycles without stopping. Examining the hook input, you notice the stop_hook_active field in the JSON payload. What is the most likely root cause of the infinite loop, and what is the correct fix?

A. The Stop hook is triggering Claude to continue working, and the hook script re-fires each time Claude finishes, because it does not check stop_hook_active and exit early when the field is true.

B. The Stop hook is running in parallel with a PostToolUse hook, and the two hooks are issuing conflicting instructions that prevent the session from terminating cleanly.

C. Claude is exceeding its context window during the linting phase, causing the session to restart automatically rather than halt, and the fix is to increase the token budget allocated to the Stop hook.

D. The shell command type is inappropriate for post-generation validation; switching the hook to type: "http" pointing at a local service will prevent the re-entry loop.