--- title: Introducing Kempt | daily.dev description: Kempt is a new open source CLI tool designed to replace heavy Gradle-based formatters like Spotless. It provides a single entry point that delegates to... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/introducing-kempt-7roiviolg twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Introducing Kempt | daily.dev og:description: Kempt is a new open source CLI tool designed to replace heavy Gradle-based formatters like Spotless. It provides a single entry point that delegates to... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/introducing-kempt-7roiviolg og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/7roiviOlG.png og:image:alt: Introducing Kempt og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Introducing Kempt **[Zac Sweers](https://daily.dev/sources/zacsweers)** · 2 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Kempt is a new open source CLI tool designed to replace heavy Gradle-based formatters like Spotless. It provides a single entry point that delegates to language-specific formatters (Kotlin via ktfmt, Java via google-java-format, Rust via cargo fmt), handles license header insertion, trailing whitespace normalization, and integrates with git pre-commit hooks. Projects configure it via a .kempt.toml file and use the same tool locally, in pre-commit hooks, and in CI pipelines. In CI, kempt check runs in read-only mode and exits non-zero when files need formatting. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [VoidZero Announces Oxfmt Alpha with Rust-Powered Performance and Prettier Compatibility](https://daily.dev/posts/voidzero-announces-oxfmt-alpha-with-rust-powered-performance-and-prettier-compatibility-ceknbbris) · InfoQ · 1 upvotes · 0 comments --- Tags: [#rust](https://daily.dev/tags/rust), [#git](https://daily.dev/tags/git), [#cli](https://daily.dev/tags/cli), [#kotlin](https://daily.dev/tags/kotlin) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/introducing-kempt-7roiviolg) ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180},"sameAs":["https://twitter.com/dailydotdev","https://github.com/dailydotdev","https://www.linkedin.com/company/daily-dev-ltd"]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://daily.dev/#website","url":"https://daily.dev","name":"daily.dev","publisher":{"@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization"},"potentialAction":{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https://daily.dev/search?q={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"TechArticle","headline":"Introducing Kempt","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/introducing-kempt-7roiviolg","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/introducing-kempt-7roiviolg"},"datePublished":"2026-07-05T07:14:06.827Z","dateModified":"2026-07-05T07:19:23.359Z","description":"Kempt is a new open source CLI tool designed to replace heavy Gradle-based formatters like Spotless. It provides a single entry point that delegates to...","image":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/f_auto,q_auto/v1/posts/96d3a7a0626fe5dd6e34345ced071a6c?_a=AQAEuop","thumbnailUrl":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/f_auto,q_auto/v1/posts/96d3a7a0626fe5dd6e34345ced071a6c?_a=AQAEuop","isAccessibleForFree":true,"articleSection":"Zac Sweers","inLanguage":"en","publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180}},"author":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Zac Sweers","logo":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/logos/placeholder.jpg","url":"https://daily.dev/sources/zacsweers"},"commentCount":0,"discussionUrl":"https://daily.dev/posts/introducing-kempt-7roiviolg","interactionStatistic":[{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"LikeAction"},"userInteractionCount":0},{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"CommentAction"},"userInteractionCount":0}],"keywords":"rust,git,cli,kotlin","timeRequired":"PT2M"} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https://daily.dev"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Zac Sweers","item":"https://daily.dev/sources/zacsweers"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"name":"Introducing Kempt"}]} ```