Pre-commit Hooks: Enforcing Quality at the Source

Wed, 01 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Pre-commit hooks catch issues before they reach CI — shifting quality checks as far left as possible.

In an AI-assisted workflow this matters more than ever. LLM-generated commits are faster and more numerous; human review bandwidth is the same. Pre-commit hooks are how you define “done” in a form the machine can check — and the LLM can iterate on.

Pre-Commit on Advancing Engineering

Pre-commit Hooks: Enforcing Quality at the Source