plz plzRun all the things

A smart cross-platform task and hook runner with helpful defaults for cargo, pnpm, and uv.

Install

macOS / Linuxuvcargo

bash

# Installs to ~/.local/bin/plz
curl --proto '=https' --tlsv1.2 -LsSf https://plzplz.org/install.sh | sh

uv tool install plzplz

cargo

cargo install plzplz

plz init example

toml

# Check formatting
[tasks.format]
run = "cargo fmt --check"
fail_hook = { suggest_command = "cargo fmt" }
git_hook = "pre-commit"

bash

plz format

Auto-detect environments — plz init detects Rust, pnpm, npm, uv and suggests tasks
Task dependencies — declare prerequisites with depends so tasks run in the right order
Serial & parallel execution — run_serial and run_parallel for composing tasks
Failure hooks — suggest commands, show messages, or run scripts on failure
Task groups — organize related tasks with [taskgroup.X] namespaces
Git hooks — configure hooks directly in plz.toml
Environment wrappers — run commands through pnpm, npm, uv, or uvx with tool_env
Interactive selection — fuzzy-find tasks when you forget the name