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@j178/prek

v0.4.8

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A fast Git hook manager written in Rust, designed as a drop-in alternative to pre-commit, reimagined.

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pre-commit is a framework to run hooks written in many languages, and it manages the language toolchain and dependencies for running the hooks.

prek is a reimagined version of pre-commit, built in Rust. It is designed to be a faster, dependency-free and drop-in alternative for it, while also providing some additional long-requested features.

Although prek is pretty new, it’s already powering real‑world projects like CPython, Apache Airflow, FastAPI, and more projects are picking it up—see Who is using prek?. If you’re looking for an alternative to pre-commit, please give it a try—we’d love your feedback!

Features

  • A single binary with no dependencies, does not require Python or any other runtime.
  • Faster than pre-commit and more efficient in disk space usage.
  • Fully compatible with the original pre-commit configurations and hooks.
  • Built-in support for monorepos (i.e. workspace mode), including concurrent execution for independent same-depth projects.
  • Integration with uv for managing Python virtual environments and dependencies.
  • Improved toolchain installations for Python, Node.js, Bun, Go, Rust and Ruby, shared between hooks.
  • Built-in Rust-native implementation of some common hooks.

Table of contents

Installation

prek provides a standalone installer script to download and install the tool,

On Linux and macOS:

curl --proto '=https' --tlsv1.2 -LsSf https://github.com/j178/prek/releases/download/v0.4.8/prek-installer.sh | sh

On Windows:

powershell -ExecutionPolicy ByPass -c "irm https://github.com/j178/prek/releases/download/v0.4.8/prek-installer.ps1 | iex"

prek is published as Python binary wheel to PyPI, you can install it using pip, uv (recommended), or pipx:

# Using uv (recommended)
uv tool install prek

# Using uvx (install and run in one command)
uvx prek

# Adding prek to the project dev-dependencies
uv add --dev prek

# Using pip
pip install prek

# Using pipx
pipx install prek
brew install prek

To use prek with mise (v2025.8.11 or later):

mise use prek

Install pre-compiled binaries from GitHub using cargo-binstall:

cargo binstall prek

Build from source using Cargo (Rust 1.89+ is required):

cargo install --locked prek

prek is published as a Node.js package and can be installed with any npm-compatible package manager:

# As a dev dependency
npm add -D @j178/prek
pnpm add -D @j178/prek
bun add -D @j178/prek

# Or install globally
npm install -g @j178/prek
pnpm add -g @j178/prek
bun install -g @j178/prek

# Or run directly without installing
npx @j178/prek --version
bunx @j178/prek --version

prek is available via Nixpkgs.

# Choose what's appropriate for your use case.
# One-off in a shell:
nix-shell -p prek

# NixOS or non-NixOS without flakes:
nix-env -iA nixos.prek

# Non-NixOS with flakes:
nix profile install nixpkgs#prek

prek is available as prek via conda-forge.

conda install conda-forge::prek

prek is available via Scoop.

scoop install main/prek

prek is available via winget.

winget install --id j178.Prek

prek is available via MacPorts.

sudo port install prek

Pre-built binaries are available for download from the GitHub releases page.

prek can be used in GitHub Actions via the j178/prek-action repository.

Example workflow:

name: Prek checks
on: [push, pull_request]

jobs:
  prek:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    steps:
      - uses: actions/checkout@v7
      - uses: j178/prek-action@v2

This action installs prek and runs prek run --all-files on your repository.

prek is also available via taiki-e/install-action for installing various tools.

To let agents use prek, install the prek skill with gh skill (v2.90.0+):

gh skill install j178/prek prek

If installed via the standalone installer, prek can update itself to the latest version:

prek self update

Quick start

  • I already use pre-commit: follow the short migration checklist in the quickstart guide to swap in prek safely.
  • I'm new to pre-commit-style tools: learn the basics—creating a config, running hooks, and installing Git shims—in the beginner quickstart walkthrough.

Why prek?

prek is faster

  • It is multiple times faster than pre-commit while also using less disk space.
  • Hook environments and toolchains are shared across hooks instead of being duplicated per repository, which reduces both install time and cache size.
  • Repositories are fetched in parallel, hook environments are prepared in parallel when their dependencies do not overlap, hooks can run concurrently by priority, and independent workspace projects at the same directory depth can run concurrently.
  • It uses uv for creating Python virtualenvs and installing dependencies, which is known for its speed and efficiency.
  • It implements some common hooks in Rust as builtins, which are faster than their Python counterparts.
  • It supports repo: builtin for offline, zero-setup hooks, which is not available in pre-commit.

prek is easier to work with

  • No need to install Python or any other runtime just to use prek; it is a single binary.
  • prek automatically installs the toolchains it needs for supported languages, so you spend less time managing Python versions, Node runtimes, Ruby installs, and similar setup.
  • It supports native prek.toml in addition to pre-commit YAML, and prek util yaml-to-toml helps migrate existing configs.
  • Built-in support for workspaces means monorepos can keep separate configs per project and still run everything from one command.
  • Workspace mode schedules independent same-depth projects concurrently while preserving parent/child ordering, which helps large monorepos finish faster without mixing project file scopes.
  • prek install and prek uninstall honor repo-local and worktree-local core.hooksPath.
  • prek run supports selecting or skipping multiple projects or hooks in workspace mode, instead of only accepting a single optional hook id, and adds quality-of-life improvements such as --dry-run, --directory, --last-commit, and --no-fail-fast.
  • prek list, prek util identify, and prek util list-builtins make it easier to inspect configured hooks, debug file matching, and discover builtins.

prek includes security-focused safeguards

  • For supported managed toolchain downloads, prek verifies the downloaded archive or installer checksum before extracting or installing it, helping ensure the integrity of downloaded toolchains.
  • prek update supports --cooldown-days, so you can keep newly published releases on hold for a cooling-off period before adopting them.
  • prek update validates pinned SHA revisions against the fetched upstream refs, including impostor-commit detection, and keeps # frozen: comments in sync with the configured commit.
  • prek update --check is useful in CI when you want updates or frozen-reference mismatches to fail the job without rewriting the config.

For more detailed improvements prek offers, take a look at Difference from pre-commit.

Who is using prek?

prek is pretty new, but it is already being used or recommended by some projects and organizations. GitHub stars are current as of April 15, 2026.

For a more comprehensive list of open-source projects using prek see the list of dependents on github.

Acknowledgements

This project is heavily inspired by the original pre-commit tool, and it wouldn't be possible without the hard work of the maintainers and contributors of that project.

And a special thanks to the Astral team for their remarkable projects, particularly uv, from which I've learned a lot on how to write efficient and idiomatic Rust code.