amont

Catch the bad commit before it exists — and take the whole thing back out in one command.

A single Rust binary that checks git commit and git push. It ships thirty-nine built-in checks — commit-message conventions, conflict markers, secrets, the linters and test suites of the languages your repository actually uses — and each one fires only where the repository has opted into its tool, so there is no YAML to write before it is useful. The commit path links no external crates, a cloned repository's own checks stay inert until you amont trust them, and amont uninstall removes exactly the six shims install wrote. How it compares to pre-commit, lefthook and husky.

amont list says what runs in the repository you are standing in — here, a Python one:

pre-commit
  ● ban-terms
  ● ruff
  ● secrets
  …
pre-push
  ● audit-python
  …
  15 active here.  23 inert (Go, JavaScript, Kubernetes, Python, Rust) — amont list --all

Install

# Linux and macOS
curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/fredericrous/amont/main/install/install.sh | sh

# Windows
irm https://raw.githubusercontent.com/fredericrous/amont/main/install/install.ps1 | iex

Either one downloads a release binary, checks it against the published SHA256SUMS, and enables nothing. Homebrew, crates.io, npm, prebuilt archives and building from source: installing. Needs git 2.31 or later.

Turning hooks on

cd <your-repo> && amont install          # this repository only — the default
amont-fleet install --root ~/Developer   # many repositories at once
amont enroll --conventions declared      # every future clone on this machine

enroll is a standing grant; read rolling out to a team before you use it. amont uninstall removes the shims again — opting out covers that and everything short of it.

Day to day

amont run                  # would my commit pass? (the staged set)
amont run --all-files      # does my working tree pass?
amont check src/main.rs    # these files, in the format editors already parse
amont rehearse --wait      # the push gate on a snapshot of HEAD, before you push
amont trust                # review what this repository's amont.conf declares
git config amont.severity.clippy warn   # runs, reports, does not block
git config hook.skip clippy             # does not run at all

Documentation

Versioned with the code in docs/ and published as a book:

• Installing and activating · Rolling out to a team · The CI backstop
• The checks · Configuration · Opting out · Commit conventions
• Where the hooks fit in your flow · The trust model · Custom checks and packs
• Why you can let this near your commits · The repositories around it · SECURITY.md · design records

Contributing

make check is the CI-parity target; setup, the zero-dependency rule and the house style are in CONTRIBUTING.md. Questions in Discussions, bugs in issues. By participating you agree to the Code of Conduct.

License

MIT.