Pre-commit Hooks: Enforcing Quality at the Source

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

Pre-commit hooks catch problems before they reach CI: bad formatting, broken builds, leaked secrets. All of it, in under a second, before you’ve even pushed.

I recently checked across my team. Ninety-five percent had no pre-commit hooks set up. Not because anyone disagreed with the idea — few made it a five-minute priority, so it stayed undone.

Here’s the five minutes.

Prek on Advancing Engineering

Pre-commit Hooks: Enforcing Quality at the Source