Run fast multi-language Git hook quality checks with prek

Use prek as a fast pre-commit-compatible hook runner so agents can lint, format, and policy-check repository changes before handing work back.

Prerequisites

prek; Git; repository pre-commit configuration

Installation

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

• uv tool install prek
• uv add --dev prek
• pip install prek
• pipx install prek

Requirements and caveats from upstream:

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• Although prek is pretty new, it’s already powering real‑world projects like CPython, Apache Airflow, [FastAPI](https://github.com/fastapi/fasta...

Basic usage or getting-started notes:

• pre-commit is a framework to run hooks written in many languages, and it manages the

• Faster than pre-commit and more efficient in disk space usage.

• Quick start

• Source: https://github.com/j178/prek

• Extracted from upstream docs: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/j178/prek/HEAD/README.md

Documentation

• https://github.com/j178/prek

Source

• Agent Skill Exchange