# Customizing with Lifecycle Hooks

## Background

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[Lifecycle Hooks](/core-concepts/agent/lifecycle-hooks.md)
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## Writing a Lifecycle Hooks Script

1. Write a Python script (e.g. lifecycle\_hooks.py)
2. In this script, define the lifecycle events to hook into
3. Define what kind of behavior to execute for each of those events

Below is a sample script that prints some strings during two lifecycle events.

{% hint style="warning" %}
Manipulating the **context** object will affect the behaviour of the request interception.
{% endhint %}

```python
from stoobly_agent.app.proxy.replay.context import ReplayContext

def handle_before_replay(context: ReplayContext):
    print('Before replay!')

```

After a request gets intercepted, the string `"Before replay!"` will be printed.

## Enabling Lifecycle Hook Script Use

Pass the path to the lifecycle hooks scripts using the `--lifecycle-hooks-path` option:

```bash
stoobly-agent run --lifecycle-hooks-path ~/path-to-file/lifecycle_hooks.py
```

## Example

```python
from stoobly_agent.app.proxy.replay.context import ReplayContext
from stoobly_agent.config.constants import record_policy, replay_policy

def handle_before_replay(context: ReplayContext):
    intercept_settings = context.intercept_settings
    flow = context.flow
    headers = flow.request
    request = request.headers
    
    is_overwriting = intercept_settings.policy == record_policy.OVERWRITE
    if is_overwriting:
        # Handle setting credentials here
        # e.g. headers['authorization'] = '<TOKEN>'
        pass
```


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