diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 335cadf10..9550a8007 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -1,5 +1,16 @@
 # Changelog
 
+## Unreleased
+
+### Fixed
+
+- **`graft init --no-mcp` / `--no-hooks` were ignored for Claude Code.** Those
+  flags only reached `runHostsInit` (Cursor/Codex/…). `runInit` always wrote
+  `.mcp.json` and the Claude hook shim/settings — including the user-level
+  copies under `~/.claude`. They now skip the matching Claude Code writes too,
+  `--dry-run` / the picker drop those paths, and a later wiring refresh
+  replays the stamp so an upgrade does not put them back.
+
 ## 0.16.0
 
 ### Added
diff --git a/src/claude/init.ts b/src/claude/init.ts
index 111c0f926..7805c59c0 100644
--- a/src/claude/init.ts
+++ b/src/claude/init.ts
@@ -16,17 +16,18 @@ import type { PlannedWrite } from '../hosts/plan.js';
  * can report them up front. All repo-local: the Claude Code layer never writes
  * outside the project.
  */
-export function claudeTargets(dir: string): PlannedWrite[] {
+export function claudeTargets(dir: string, opts: { mcp?: boolean; hooks?: boolean } = {}): PlannedWrite[] {
   const t = (path: string, what: string, kind: PlannedWrite['kind'] = 'claude'): PlannedWrite =>
     ({ hostId: 'claude', id: 'claude', path, scope: 'repo', kind, what });
-  return [
-    t(join(dir, '.claude', 'settings.json'), 'graft statusline + hook blocks'),
+  const writes: PlannedWrite[] = [
+    t(join(dir, '.claude', 'settings.json'), opts.hooks === false ? 'graft statusline' : 'graft statusline + hook blocks'),
     t(join(dir, '.claude', 'helpers', 'graft-statusline.cjs'), 'statusline shim'),
-    t(join(dir, '.claude', 'helpers', 'graft-hooks.cjs'), 'hooks shim'),
-    t(join(dir, '.claude', 'skills', 'graft', 'SKILL.md'), 'graft skill'),
-    // Tagged 'mcp' so the picker doesn't label Claude Code as having no MCP.
-    t(join(dir, '.mcp.json'), 'mcpServers.graft', 'mcp'),
   ];
+  if (opts.hooks !== false) writes.push(t(join(dir, '.claude', 'helpers', 'graft-hooks.cjs'), 'hooks shim'));
+  writes.push(t(join(dir, '.claude', 'skills', 'graft', 'SKILL.md'), 'graft skill'));
+  // Tagged 'mcp' so the picker doesn't label Claude Code as having no MCP.
+  if (opts.mcp !== false) writes.push(t(join(dir, '.mcp.json'), 'mcpServers.graft', 'mcp'));
+  return writes;
 }
 
 /**
@@ -62,9 +63,10 @@ export interface InitResult {
 
 export function runInit(
   dir: string,
-  opts: { build?: boolean; cliPath?: string; statusline?: boolean; global?: boolean; home?: string } = {},
+  opts: { build?: boolean; cliPath?: string; mcp?: boolean; hooks?: boolean; statusline?: boolean; global?: boolean; home?: string } = {},
 ): InitResult {
-  // Same list `--dry-run` and the picker report, so the two can't drift apart.
+  // Unfiltered path list so names stay stable when `--no-mcp` / `--no-hooks`
+  // omit a write. The filtered list is what `--dry-run` reports.
   const [settings, statusline, hooks, skill, mcpTarget] = claudeTargets(dir).map((t) => t.path);
 
   mkdirSync(dirname(statusline), { recursive: true });
@@ -72,14 +74,17 @@ export function runInit(
   const settingsPath = settings;
   let existing: Record<string, any> = {};
   try { existing = JSON.parse(readFileSync(settingsPath, 'utf8')); } catch { /* none/invalid → start fresh */ }
-  const { merged, warnings } = mergeGraftSettings(existing, { statusline: opts.statusline });
+  const { merged, warnings } = mergeGraftSettings(existing, { hooks: opts.hooks, statusline: opts.statusline });
   writeFileSync(settingsPath, `${JSON.stringify(merged, null, 2)}\n`);
 
   const sl = statusline;
-  const hk = hooks;
   const bakedDir = claudeDistDir(); // absolute <pkg>/dist/claude — the shims' primary resolution path
   writeFileSync(sl, statuslineShim(bakedDir)); chmodSync(sl, 0o755);
-  writeFileSync(hk, hooksShim(bakedDir)); chmodSync(hk, 0o755);
+  const shims = [sl];
+  if (opts.hooks !== false) {
+    writeFileSync(hooks, hooksShim(bakedDir)); chmodSync(hooks, 0o755);
+    shims.push(hooks);
+  }
 
   // Install the graft skill — the piece that redirects the agent to graft/ before it
   // greps source. Overwritten each run (graft owns this file), like the shims above.
@@ -90,15 +95,20 @@ export function runInit(
   // Register the graft MCP server in the project's .mcp.json so Claude Code
   // exposes graft_find_code/graft_trace_calls/etc. as tools — the same keyed merge the
   // other hosts use (existing servers preserved; unparseable files skipped).
-  const mcp = mergeJsonKey('claude', mcpTarget, 'mcpServers', serverEntry());
+  // `--no-mcp` skips this write: Claude Code can still call the CLI via the skill.
+  const mcp = opts.mcp === false
+    ? { id: 'claude', path: mcpTarget, action: 'skipped' as const }
+    : mergeJsonKey('claude', mcpTarget, 'mcpServers', serverEntry());
 
   // The same wiring again, one level up in `~/.claude`, because everything above
   // this line can be erased by a `.gitignore` and lost to `git worktree add`. See
   // hosts/claude-global.ts for the failure that motivates it. Gated on the same
   // flag `registerMcpConfigs` uses, so `--no-global` still means "nothing outside
   // this repo".
-  const global = opts.global === false ? [] : installClaudeGlobal(opts.home ?? homedir());
+  const global = opts.global === false
+    ? []
+    : installClaudeGlobal(opts.home ?? homedir(), { mcp: opts.mcp, hooks: opts.hooks });
 
   const built = buildGraphIfMissing(dir, opts);
-  return { settingsPath, shims: [sl, hk], skill: skillPath, mcp, global, warnings, built };
+  return { settingsPath, shims, skill: skillPath, mcp, global, warnings, built };
 }
diff --git a/src/claude/settings-merge.ts b/src/claude/settings-merge.ts
index 3ee1d15b8..ba670add2 100644
--- a/src/claude/settings-merge.ts
+++ b/src/claude/settings-merge.ts
@@ -113,7 +113,7 @@ function applyStatusline(
 
 export function mergeGraftSettings(
   existing: Json,
-  opts: { statusline?: boolean } = {},
+  opts: { statusline?: boolean; hooks?: boolean } = {},
 ): { merged: Json; warnings: string[] } {
   const merged: Json = { ...(existing ?? {}) };
   const warnings: string[] = [];
@@ -129,10 +129,21 @@ export function mergeGraftSettings(
   );
 
   merged.hooks = { ...(merged.hooks ?? {}) };
-  for (const [event, blocks] of Object.entries(graftBlocks())) {
-    const prior = Array.isArray(merged.hooks[event]) ? merged.hooks[event] : [];
-    const foreign = prior.filter((e: Json) => !isGraftEntry(e)); // drop old Graft entries → idempotent
-    merged.hooks[event] = [...foreign, ...blocks];
+  if (opts.hooks === false) {
+    // `--no-hooks`: drop graft hook entries, keep anyone else's.
+    for (const event of Object.keys(merged.hooks)) {
+      const prior = Array.isArray(merged.hooks[event]) ? merged.hooks[event] : [];
+      const foreign = prior.filter((e: Json) => !isGraftEntry(e));
+      if (foreign.length) merged.hooks[event] = foreign;
+      else delete merged.hooks[event];
+    }
+    if (Object.keys(merged.hooks).length === 0) delete merged.hooks;
+  } else {
+    for (const [event, blocks] of Object.entries(graftBlocks())) {
+      const prior = Array.isArray(merged.hooks[event]) ? merged.hooks[event] : [];
+      const foreign = prior.filter((e: Json) => !isGraftEntry(e)); // drop old Graft entries → idempotent
+      merged.hooks[event] = [...foreign, ...blocks];
+    }
   }
 
   // Drop graft's own prior regex before re-adding, so a change to FOOTER replaces
diff --git a/src/cli.ts b/src/cli.ts
index edd7ef4e0..655bb3dbe 100644
--- a/src/cli.ts
+++ b/src/cli.ts
@@ -916,8 +916,8 @@ program
   .option("--all-agents", "write instruction files for every known agent, detected or not")
   .option("--no-agents", "Claude Code wiring only; skip other agents")
   .option("--list-agents", "list known agent ids and exit")
-  .option("--no-mcp", "skip MCP server registration for other agents")
-  .option("--no-hooks", "skip hook installation for other agents")
+  .option("--no-mcp", "skip MCP server registration (Claude Code .mcp.json and other agents)")
+  .option("--no-hooks", "skip hook installation (Claude Code helpers + settings, and other agents)")
   .option("--no-statusline", "skip writing Claude Code statusLine (keep a user-defined one)")
   .option("--dry-run", "print every file init would touch, then exit without writing")
   .option("-y, --yes", "skip the picker and wire every detected agent (the pre-0.8 default)")
@@ -944,7 +944,7 @@ program
     // guessing (pre-0.8 this silently wired every agent the machine had ever
     // installed — see --yes to get that back).
     const home = homedir();
-    const plan = planInit(repo, { home });
+    const plan = planInit(repo, { home, mcp: opts.mcp, hooks: opts.hooks });
     const detectedIds = plan.filter((p) => p.detected).map((p) => p.id);
     const noAgents = (opts as { agents?: unknown }).agents === false;
 
@@ -994,7 +994,7 @@ program
     if (opts.dryRun) {
       console.error(formatPlan(plan, ids, repo, home));
       for (const child of children)
-        console.error(`\n— ${child}/ (workspace child)\n` + formatPlan(planInit(join(repo, child), { home }), ids, join(repo, child), home));
+        console.error(`\n— ${child}/ (workspace child)\n` + formatPlan(planInit(join(repo, child), { home, mcp: opts.mcp, hooks: opts.hooks }), ids, join(repo, child), home));
       return;
     }
     if (ids.length === 0) {
@@ -1065,11 +1065,13 @@ function wireTarget(
       // `global`/`home` are threaded through alongside `statusline`: the claude layer
       // writes under `~/.claude` now (hosts/claude-global.ts), so --no-global has to
       // reach it or the flag would silently mean "no out-of-repo writes, except three".
-      const res = runInit(repo, { build: opts.build, cliPath, statusline: wantStatusline, global: opts.global, home });
+      const res = runInit(repo, { build: opts.build, cliPath, mcp: opts.mcp, hooks: opts.hooks, statusline: wantStatusline, global: opts.global, home });
       console.error(`✓ wrote ${res.settingsPath}`);
       for (const s of res.shims) console.error(`✓ wrote ${s}`);
       console.error(`✓ wrote ${res.skill}`);
-      if (res.mcp.action === "skipped-unparseable")
+      if (res.mcp.action === "skipped")
+        console.error(`· skipped Claude Code MCP registration (--no-mcp)`);
+      else if (res.mcp.action === "skipped-unparseable")
         console.error(`⚠ .mcp.json: ${res.mcp.path} left unchanged (not valid JSON) — add the graft server manually`);
       else if (res.mcp.action === "unchanged")
         console.error(`· mcp claude: ${res.mcp.path} (already registered)`);
diff --git a/src/hosts/claude-global.ts b/src/hosts/claude-global.ts
index 309008771..c75770d5d 100644
--- a/src/hosts/claude-global.ts
+++ b/src/hosts/claude-global.ts
@@ -54,14 +54,20 @@ export function globalHelpersDir(home: string): string {
  * a worktree is its own project entry there, so a local registration would miss it
  * for precisely the same reason the repo file does.
  */
-export function claudeGlobalTargets(home: string): PlannedWrite[] {
+export function claudeGlobalTargets(home: string, opts: { mcp?: boolean; hooks?: boolean } = {}): PlannedWrite[] {
   const g = (id: string, path: string, kind: PlannedWrite['kind'], what: string): PlannedWrite =>
     ({ hostId: 'claude', id, path, scope: 'global', kind, what });
-  return [
-    g('claude-global-shim', join(globalHelpersDir(home), 'graft-hooks.cjs'), 'hook', 'hooks shim (user level)'),
-    g('claude-global-hooks', join(home, '.claude', 'settings.json'), 'hook', 'SessionStart / UserPromptSubmit / PostToolUse / Stop'),
-    g('claude-global-mcp', join(home, '.claude.json'), 'mcp', 'mcpServers.graft'),
-  ];
+  const writes: PlannedWrite[] = [];
+  // `--no-hooks` / `--no-mcp` must skip the user-level copies too — otherwise
+  // `~/.claude` would silently undo the repo-level skip in every worktree.
+  if (opts.hooks !== false) {
+    writes.push(g('claude-global-shim', join(globalHelpersDir(home), 'graft-hooks.cjs'), 'hook', 'hooks shim (user level)'));
+    writes.push(g('claude-global-hooks', join(home, '.claude', 'settings.json'), 'hook', 'SessionStart / UserPromptSubmit / PostToolUse / Stop'));
+  }
+  if (opts.mcp !== false) {
+    writes.push(g('claude-global-mcp', join(home, '.claude.json'), 'mcp', 'mcpServers.graft'));
+  }
+  return writes;
 }
 
 /** Merge graft's hook blocks into a settings file, preserving everything else. */
@@ -90,35 +96,46 @@ function upsertGlobalHooks(id: string, path: string, helpers: string): GlobalWri
  * Best-effort by contract, like every other writer here: a failure is reported as an
  * action, never raised, so a bad `~/.claude.json` can't fail a `graft init`.
  */
-export function installClaudeGlobal(home: string): GlobalWrite[] {
-  const [shim, settings, mcp] = claudeGlobalTargets(home);
+export function installClaudeGlobal(home: string, opts: { mcp?: boolean; hooks?: boolean } = {}): GlobalWrite[] {
+  const targets = claudeGlobalTargets(home, opts);
+  const byId = new Map(targets.map((t) => [t.id, t]));
   const out: GlobalWrite[] = [];
 
-  try {
-    out.push(writeOwned(shim.id, shim.path, hooksShim(claudeDistDir()), 0o755));
-  } catch {
-    out.push({ id: shim.id, path: shim.path, action: 'skipped-unparseable' });
-  }
-
-  // Only wire the hooks once the shim they call is actually on disk — a hook
-  // entry pointing at a missing file is an error in every session, which is a
-  // worse failure than not installing.
-  if (out[0].action !== 'skipped-unparseable') {
+  const shim = byId.get('claude-global-shim');
+  if (shim) {
     try {
-      // Posix form in the command string: `join` gives backslashes on Windows and
-      // the template appends `/graft-hooks.cjs`, so the raw path produces a mixed
-      // `C:\Users\…\helpers/graft-hooks.cjs`. Node accepts forward slashes on
-      // Windows, so one separator throughout is both correct and readable.
-      out.push(upsertGlobalHooks(settings.id, settings.path, toPosixPath(globalHelpersDir(home))));
+      out.push(writeOwned(shim.id, shim.path, hooksShim(claudeDistDir()), 0o755));
     } catch {
-      out.push({ id: settings.id, path: settings.path, action: 'skipped-unparseable' });
+      out.push({ id: shim.id, path: shim.path, action: 'skipped-unparseable' });
+    }
+  }
+
+  const settings = byId.get('claude-global-hooks');
+  if (settings) {
+    // Only wire the hooks once the shim they call is actually on disk — a hook
+    // entry pointing at a missing file is an error in every session, which is a
+    // worse failure than not installing.
+    const shimWrite = out.find((w) => w.id === 'claude-global-shim');
+    if (!shimWrite || shimWrite.action !== 'skipped-unparseable') {
+      try {
+        // Posix form in the command string: `join` gives backslashes on Windows and
+        // the template appends `/graft-hooks.cjs`, so the raw path produces a mixed
+        // `C:\Users\…\helpers/graft-hooks.cjs`. Node accepts forward slashes on
+        // Windows, so one separator throughout is both correct and readable.
+        out.push(upsertGlobalHooks(settings.id, settings.path, toPosixPath(globalHelpersDir(home))));
+      } catch {
+        out.push({ id: settings.id, path: settings.path, action: 'skipped-unparseable' });
+      }
     }
   }
 
-  try {
-    out.push(mergeJsonKey(mcp.id, mcp.path, 'mcpServers', serverEntry()));
-  } catch {
-    out.push({ id: mcp.id, path: mcp.path, action: 'skipped-unparseable' });
+  const mcp = byId.get('claude-global-mcp');
+  if (mcp) {
+    try {
+      out.push(mergeJsonKey(mcp.id, mcp.path, 'mcpServers', serverEntry()));
+    } catch {
+      out.push({ id: mcp.id, path: mcp.path, action: 'skipped-unparseable' });
+    }
   }
 
   return out;
diff --git a/src/hosts/mcp-config.ts b/src/hosts/mcp-config.ts
index 111da50f3..defef38ba 100644
--- a/src/hosts/mcp-config.ts
+++ b/src/hosts/mcp-config.ts
@@ -14,8 +14,9 @@ import { homedir } from 'node:os';
 import type { PlannedWrite } from './plan.js';
 import { readJsonObject, type ConfigWrite } from './config-write.js';
 
-/** MCP registration reports the same write-result record every installer does. */
-export type McpWrite = ConfigWrite;
+/** MCP registration reports the same write-result record every installer does,
+ *  plus `skipped` when `--no-mcp` declines the write. */
+export type McpWrite = ConfigWrite | { id: string; path: string; action: 'skipped' };
 
 /** A planned MCP write, plus the detail needed to actually perform it. */
 export interface McpTarget extends PlannedWrite {
diff --git a/src/hosts/plan.ts b/src/hosts/plan.ts
index 38b225b38..24d66588a 100644
--- a/src/hosts/plan.ts
+++ b/src/hosts/plan.ts
@@ -65,7 +65,7 @@ function instructionTarget(repo: string, host: HostTarget): PlannedWrite {
  * touch. Claude Code comes first — it's the deep integration and the picker's
  * default. `ids`, when given, restricts the plan to those hosts.
  */
-export function planInit(repo: string, opts: { home?: string; ids?: string[] } = {}): HostPlan[] {
+export function planInit(repo: string, opts: { home?: string; ids?: string[]; mcp?: boolean; hooks?: boolean } = {}): HostPlan[] {
   const home = opts.home ?? homedir();
   const probe = probeFor(home, repo);
   const detected = new Set(detectHosts(probe).map((h) => h.id));
@@ -74,7 +74,7 @@ export function planInit(repo: string, opts: { home?: string; ids?: string[] } =
     // Repo writes plus the user-level copy under `~/.claude` — the picker and
     // `--dry-run` render 'global' writes in their own section, so a user sees
     // what lands outside the repo before agreeing to it.
-    { id: 'claude', name: 'Claude Code', detected: true, writes: [...claudeTargets(repo), ...claudeGlobalTargets(home)] },
+    { id: 'claude', name: 'Claude Code', detected: true, writes: [...claudeTargets(repo, { mcp: opts.mcp, hooks: opts.hooks }), ...claudeGlobalTargets(home, { mcp: opts.mcp, hooks: opts.hooks })] },
     ...HOSTS.map((host) => ({
       id: host.id,
       name: host.name,
diff --git a/src/upkeep-run.ts b/src/upkeep-run.ts
index 7c64afa53..aa4167190 100644
--- a/src/upkeep-run.ts
+++ b/src/upkeep-run.ts
@@ -43,7 +43,7 @@ function rewriteWiring(repo: string, hosts: string[], opts: WiringOpts): void {
   // its `~/.claude` writes (hosts/claude-global.ts) are out-of-repo, and a user who
   // declined those at init time must keep declining them on every replay.
   if (hosts.includes('claude'))
-    runInit(repo, { build: false, cliPath: graftCliPath(), statusline: opts.statusline, global: opts.global });
+    runInit(repo, { build: false, cliPath: graftCliPath(), mcp: opts.mcp, hooks: opts.hooks, statusline: opts.statusline, global: opts.global });
   const others = hosts.filter((h) => h !== 'claude');
   if (others.length)
     runHostsInit(repo, { agents: others, global: opts.global, mcp: opts.mcp, hooks: opts.hooks });
diff --git a/test/claude-init.test.ts b/test/claude-init.test.ts
index 2a7fbf6d5..d67f0192f 100644
--- a/test/claude-init.test.ts
+++ b/test/claude-init.test.ts
@@ -36,6 +36,61 @@ test('runInit scaffolds settings + both shims + the skill (build skipped)', () =
   assert.ok(s.statusLine.command.includes('graft-statusline.cjs'));
   assert.ok(s.hooks.Stop[0].hooks[0].command.includes('graft-hooks.cjs'));
   assert.deepEqual(s.permissions.allow, ['Bash(graft:*)', 'Bash(npx graft:*)', 'Bash(graft-dev:*)', 'Bash(node dist/cli.js:*)']);
+  assert.ok(existsSync(join(d, '.mcp.json')), 'default init still registers Claude Code MCP');
+});
+
+test('runInit mcp:false skips .mcp.json', () => {
+  const d = fresh();
+  const home = fresh();
+  const r = runInit(d, { build: false, mcp: false, home });
+  assert.ok(existsSync(join(d, '.claude', 'settings.json')));
+  assert.ok(existsSync(join(d, '.claude', 'helpers', 'graft-hooks.cjs')));
+  assert.ok(!existsSync(join(d, '.mcp.json')));
+  assert.equal(r.mcp.action, 'skipped');
+  assert.ok(!existsSync(join(home, '.claude.json')), 'user-scope MCP is skipped too');
+  assert.ok(existsSync(join(home, '.claude', 'helpers', 'graft-hooks.cjs')), 'hooks still land in ~');
+});
+
+test('runInit hooks:false skips the hooks shim and graft hook blocks', () => {
+  const d = fresh();
+  const home = fresh();
+  const r = runInit(d, { build: false, hooks: false, home });
+  assert.ok(existsSync(join(d, '.claude', 'helpers', 'graft-statusline.cjs')));
+  assert.ok(!existsSync(join(d, '.claude', 'helpers', 'graft-hooks.cjs')));
+  assert.equal(r.shims.length, 1);
+  const s = JSON.parse(readFileSync(join(d, '.claude', 'settings.json'), 'utf8'));
+  assert.equal(s.hooks, undefined);
+  assert.ok(s.statusLine.command.includes('graft-statusline.cjs'));
+  assert.ok(!existsSync(join(home, '.claude', 'helpers', 'graft-hooks.cjs')), 'user-level hook shim skipped');
+  assert.ok(existsSync(join(home, '.claude.json')), 'user-scope MCP still lands');
+});
+
+test('CLI: --no-mcp --agents claude writes skill/hooks but no .mcp.json', () => {
+  const d = fresh();
+  const res = spawnSync(
+    process.execPath,
+    ['--import', 'tsx', 'src/cli.ts', 'init', d, '--no-build', '--agents', 'claude', '--no-mcp'],
+    { encoding: 'utf8' },
+  );
+  assert.equal(res.status, 0, res.stderr);
+  assert.ok(existsSync(join(d, '.claude', 'settings.json')));
+  assert.ok(existsSync(join(d, '.claude', 'helpers', 'graft-hooks.cjs')));
+  assert.ok(!existsSync(join(d, '.mcp.json')));
+  assert.match(res.stderr, /skipped Claude Code MCP registration/);
+});
+
+test('CLI: --no-hooks --agents claude writes statusline + skill but no hook shim', () => {
+  const d = fresh();
+  const res = spawnSync(
+    process.execPath,
+    ['--import', 'tsx', 'src/cli.ts', 'init', d, '--no-build', '--agents', 'claude', '--no-hooks'],
+    { encoding: 'utf8' },
+  );
+  assert.equal(res.status, 0, res.stderr);
+  assert.ok(existsSync(join(d, '.claude', 'helpers', 'graft-statusline.cjs')));
+  assert.ok(!existsSync(join(d, '.claude', 'helpers', 'graft-hooks.cjs')));
+  const s = JSON.parse(readFileSync(join(d, '.claude', 'settings.json'), 'utf8'));
+  assert.equal(s.hooks, undefined);
 });
 
 test('runInit overwrites a stale skill file', () => {
diff --git a/test/claude-settings-merge.test.ts b/test/claude-settings-merge.test.ts
index ad424557a..26f6a1866 100644
--- a/test/claude-settings-merge.test.ts
+++ b/test/claude-settings-merge.test.ts
@@ -137,3 +137,15 @@ test('permissions object with no allow key gets one added; other keys preserved'
   assert.deepEqual(merged.permissions.deny, ['Bash(rm:*)']);
   assert.deepEqual(merged.permissions.allow, ['Bash(graft:*)', 'Bash(npx graft:*)', 'Bash(graft-dev:*)', 'Bash(node dist/cli.js:*)']);
 });
+
+test('hooks:false drops graft hook blocks and leaves foreign hooks', () => {
+  const existing = {
+    hooks: {
+      Stop: [{ hooks: [{ type: 'command', command: 'mine.sh' }] }],
+    },
+  };
+  const { merged } = mergeGraftSettings(existing, { hooks: false });
+  assert.equal(merged.hooks.Stop.length, 1);
+  assert.equal(merged.hooks.Stop[0].hooks[0].command, 'mine.sh');
+  assert.equal(merged.hooks.PostToolUse, undefined);
+});
diff --git a/test/hosts-claude-global.test.ts b/test/hosts-claude-global.test.ts
index 6a690117b..571ac1972 100644
--- a/test/hosts-claude-global.test.ts
+++ b/test/hosts-claude-global.test.ts
@@ -178,6 +178,29 @@ test('--no-global writes nothing outside the repo', () => {
   assert.ok(existsSync(join(repo, '.mcp.json')));
 });
 
+test('--no-mcp skips user-scope MCP but still installs user-level hooks', () => {
+  const home = tmpRepo('cgnomcp');
+  const repo = tmpRepo('cgnomcprepo');
+
+  const r = runInit(repo, { build: false, mcp: false, home });
+
+  assert.ok(!existsSync(userMcpOf(home)));
+  assert.ok(existsSync(shimOf(home)));
+  assert.ok(readJson(settingsOf(home)).hooks?.SessionStart);
+  assert.ok(r.global.every((w) => w.id !== 'claude-global-mcp'));
+});
+
+test('--no-hooks skips user-level hook files but still registers user-scope MCP', () => {
+  const home = tmpRepo('cgnohooks');
+  const repo = tmpRepo('cgnohooksrepo');
+
+  runInit(repo, { build: false, hooks: false, home });
+
+  assert.equal(existsSync(shimOf(home)), false);
+  assert.equal(existsSync(settingsOf(home)), false);
+  assert.ok(readJson(userMcpOf(home)).mcpServers?.graft);
+});
+
 /* ------------------------------------------------------------------ *
  * the plan, and putting it back
  * ------------------------------------------------------------------ */
diff --git a/test/hosts-plan.test.ts b/test/hosts-plan.test.ts
index bc3129a4b..f12c691f1 100644
--- a/test/hosts-plan.test.ts
+++ b/test/hosts-plan.test.ts
@@ -58,6 +58,19 @@ test('claude writes: five in the repo, three in ~ that no .gitignore can eat', (
   assert.ok(globals.every((w) => !w.path.startsWith(repo)), 'nothing global lands in the repo');
 });
 
+test('claude plan omits .mcp.json and the hooks shim when those flags are off', () => {
+  const repo = fresh();
+  const home = fullHome();
+  const claude = planInit(repo, { home, ids: ['claude'], mcp: false, hooks: false })[0];
+  // Repo: settings + statusline + skill. Global copies of hooks/MCP are skipped too.
+  assert.equal(claude.writes.length, 3);
+  assert.ok(!claude.writes.some((w) => w.path.endsWith('.mcp.json')));
+  assert.ok(!claude.writes.some((w) => w.path.includes('graft-hooks.cjs')));
+  assert.ok(!claude.writes.some((w) => w.path.endsWith('.claude.json')));
+  assert.equal(claude.writes.filter((w) => w.scope === 'global').length, 0);
+  assert.ok(claude.writes.some((w) => w.path.endsWith('settings.json')));
+});
+
 test('the three ~/.codex writes are scoped global', () => {
   const home = fullHome();
   const agents = planInit(fresh(), { home, ids: ['agents'] })[0];