Ruff Linter and Formatter

Ultra-fast Python linting and formatting using Ruff CLI with pyproject.toml configuration. Supports auto-fix, import sorting (isort-compatible), and rule selection from 800+ built-in rules.

Prerequisites

Python

Installation

Use the upstream install or setup path that matches your environment:

• uv tool install ruff@latest # Install Ruff globally.
• uv add --dev ruff # Or add Ruff to your project.
• pip install ruff
• pipx install ruff

Requirements and caveats from upstream:

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• An extremely fast Python linter and code formatter, written in Rust.

Basic usage or getting-started notes:

• Getting Started

• For more, see the documentation.

• Ruff is available as ruff on PyPI.

• Source: https://github.com/astral-sh/ruff

• Extracted from upstream docs: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/astral-sh/ruff/HEAD/README.md

Documentation

• https://docs.astral.sh/ruff/

Source

• Agent Skill Exchange