The current .pre-commit-hooks.yaml file allows running actionlint through pre-commit's system and docker languages. These are both ways of skipping pre-commit's packaging system.

pre-commit has a golang language, and in recent version 3.0.0 it gained the ability to bootstrap golang. This allows users to compile and run native golang tools without any setup other than pre-commit. It would be neat if actionlint supported this style of running, since it would avoid teams needing to all install actionlint themselves, or Docker.

I just tried using actionlint under pre-commit with golang, just this change:

--- .pre-commit-hooks.yaml
+++ .pre-commit-hooks.yaml
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 - id: actionlint
   name: Lint GitHub Actions workflow files
   description: Runs actionlint to lint GitHub Actions workflow files
-  language: system
+  language: golang
   types: ["yaml"]
   files: "^.github/workflows/"
   entry: actionlint

It fails though, with:

An unexpected error has occurred: CalledProcessError: command: ('/opt/homebrew/bin/go', 'install', './...')
return code: 1
stdout: (none)
stderr:
    go: downloading github.com/yuin/goldmark v1.5.4
    go: downloading gopkg.in/yaml.v3 v3.0.1
    go: downloading github.com/fatih/color v1.15.0
    go: downloading github.com/mattn/go-colorable v0.1.13
    go: downloading github.com/mattn/go-runewidth v0.0.14
    go: downloading github.com/robfig/cron v1.2.0
    go: downloading golang.org/x/sync v0.1.0
    go: downloading golang.org/x/sys v0.6.0
    go: downloading github.com/mattn/go-isatty v0.0.18
    go: downloading github.com/rivo/uniseg v0.4.4
    package github.com/rhysd/actionlint/playground
    	imports syscall/js: build constraints exclude all Go files in /opt/homebrew/Cellar/go/1.20.3/libexec/src/syscall/js

pre-commit runs go install ./..., but this fails in the actinolint repo. I'm afraid I don't know anything about Go, so that's where I stop. I imagine the repository may need a little rearrangement, or a rule added to not install the playground by default... Anyway I would just like to see this happen to make it a little bit easier to run actionlint.