Git Hooks for Automation — Quality Gates That Never Sleep
Pre-commit and pre-push hooks, using Husky, automating quality checks, and lint-staged for efficient automation
You know you should run the linter before committing. You know you should check for secrets. You know you should run the type checker. But when you're in the flow — or when your AI agent is cranking through a feature — those manual checks get skipped.
Git hooks are scripts that run automatically at specific points in the Git workflow. They're your quality gates — checks that fire whether you remember them or not.
When you configure hooks properly, every commit gets linted, every push gets tested, and every secret gets caught. Not because someone remembered to run the checks, but because the hooks make it impossible to skip them.
What Git Hooks Are
A Git hook is a script that Git executes at specific events. The scripts live in .git/hooks/ and are named after the event they re
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