Hook Based Event Driven Automation With Pre Post Task Execution

via “task lifecycle hooks for custom initialization and cleanup”

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Unique: Hooks are integrated into the run state machine, executing at specific state transitions rather than as separate event handlers. Provides access to full task context and execution metadata, enabling rich customization without external event systems.

vs others: More integrated than webhook-based approaches because hooks execute in-process with full context access, whereas webhooks require serialization and network round-trips