6. Pre-commit Hook

If you’d like Prospector to be run automatically when making changes to files in your Git repository, you can install pre-commit and add the following text to your repositories’ .pre-commit-config.yaml:

repos:
-   repo: https://github.com/PyCQA/prospector
    rev: 1.7.5 # The version of Prospector to use, if not 'master' for latest
    hooks:
    -   id: prospector

Commandline Arguments

Some controls for prospector, especially surrounding how the output is displayed, are not configurable from a profile, only from the commandline.

To add command-line arguments to the pre-commit hook config file:

repos:
-   repo: https://github.com/PyCQA/prospector
    rev: 1.7.5
    hooks:
    -   id: prospector
        args:
        - --summary-only

Optional Tools

By default the configuration will only install the base supported tools and not optional tools.

If you also use optional tools, for example bandit or mypy, then you can add them to the hook configuration like so:

repos:
-   repo: https://github.com/PyCQA/prospector
    rev: 1.7.5
    hooks:
    -   id: prospector
        additional_dependencies:
        - ".[with_mypy,with_bandit]"

This is equivalent to running:

pip install prospector[with_bandit,with_mypy]