Run Fast Multi Language Git Hook Quality Checks With Prek

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name: "Run fast multi-language Git hook quality checks with prek"
slug: "run-fast-multi-language-git-hook-quality-checks-with-prek"
description: "Use prek as a fast pre-commit-compatible hook runner so agents can lint, format, and policy-check repository changes before handing work back."
github_stars: 7483
verification: "security_reviewed"
source: "https://github.com/j178/prek"
author: "j178"
publisher_type: "open_source"
category: "Code Quality & Review"
framework: "Multi-Framework"
tool_ecosystem:
  github_repo: "j178/prek"
  github_stars: 7483
  npm_package: "@j178/prek"
  npm_weekly_downloads: 0
---

# 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:
- [![PyPI version](https://img.shields.io/pypi/v/prek.svg)](https://pypi.python.org/pypi/prek)
- [![PyPI Downloads](https://img.shields.io/pypi/dm/prek?logo=python)](https://pepy.tech/projects/prek)
- Although prek is pretty new, it’s already powering real‑world projects like [CPython](https://github.com/python/cpython), [Apache Airflow](https://github.com/apache/airflow), [FastAPI](https://github.com/fastapi/fasta...

Basic usage or getting-started notes:
- [pre-commit](https://pre-commit.com/) is a framework to run hooks written in many languages, and it manages the
- [Faster](https://prek.j178.dev/benchmark/) than pre-commit and more efficient in disk space usage.
- [Quick start](#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](https://agentskillexchange.com/skills/run-fast-multi-language-git-hook-quality-checks-with-prek/)