aRustyDev / aRustyDev/pre-commit-hooks

docs: Create comprehensive hook development guide

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Description

## Overview
Create a comprehensive guide for developing, testing, and contributing new pre-commit hooks to this repository.

## Purpose
Provide clear documentation to help contributors:
- Understand hook architecture and standards
- Develop new hooks following best practices
- Test hooks thoroughly
- Submit quality contributions

## Content Requirements

### 1. Hook Development Basics
- [ ] What are pre-commit hooks?
- [ ] Repository structure overview
- [ ] Naming conventions
- [ ] File organization

### 2. Writing Hooks
- [ ] Shell script best practices
- [ ] Error handling patterns
- [ ] Input/output standards
- [ ] Exit codes and their meanings
- [ ] Dependency management

### 3. Security Guidelines
- [ ] Input validation
- [ ] Safe file operations
- [ ] Avoiding command injection
- [ ] Secret handling
- [ ] Permission requirements

### 4. Testing Hooks
- [ ] Using the bats framework
- [ ] Writing effective tests
- [ ] Mocking external commands
- [ ] Coverage requirements
- [ ] CI integration

### 5. Contributing Process
- [ ] Fork and clone workflow
- [ ] Branch naming conventions
- [ ] Commit message format
- [ ] PR requirements
- [ ] Review process

### 6. Examples
- [ ] Simple hook example
- [ ] Complex hook with dependencies
- [ ] Multi-file processing hook
- [ ] Language-specific hook

### 7. Common Patterns
- [ ] File filtering
- [ ] Parallel processing
- [ ] Progress reporting
- [ ] Configuration handling
- [ ] Cross-platform compatibility

### 8. Troubleshooting
- [ ] Common errors
- [ ] Debugging techniques
- [ ] Performance optimization
- [ ] Platform-specific issues

## Deliverables
- [ ] CONTRIBUTING.md enhancement
- [ ] docs/HOOK_DEVELOPMENT.md guide
- [ ] Example hook template
- [ ] Test template
- [ ] Quick reference card

## Success Criteria
- Clear, comprehensive documentation
- Practical examples
- Reduced barrier to contribution
- Consistent hook quality
- Faster PR reviews

## Related
- #26 - CI/CD implementation
- #27 - Test coverage
- Current CONTRIBUTING.md needs update

Contributor guide

Open the contributing guide

Research direction

Start by reviewing the current CONTRIBUTING.md and the existing hook structure, then use the checklist to organize docs/HOOK_DEVELOPMENT.md. Cover the listed development, security, testing, contribution, example, pattern, and troubleshooting topics, and include the example hook template, test template, and quick reference card. Done means all listed deliverables and success criteria are addressed.

Written by the indexing model from the issue text.

Assessment

Tech stack
python, shell
Domain
documentation, testing-qa, tooling
Issue type
Documentation
Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Activity status
Stale
Clarity
Mostly clear
Newbie friendliness
35/100

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