diff --git a/.pre-commit-config.yaml b/.pre-commit-config.yaml
deleted file mode 100644
index 5322d988..00000000
--- a/.pre-commit-config.yaml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,27 +0,0 @@
-# All available hooks: https://pre-commit.com/hooks.html
-# R specific hooks: https://github.com/lorenzwalthert/precommit
-repos:
--   repo: https://github.com/lorenzwalthert/precommit
-    rev: v0.4.3.9001
-    hooks: 
-    -   id: style-files
-        args: [--style_pkg=styler, --style_fun=tidyverse_style, --cache-root=styler-perm]
-        require_serial: true
-    -   id: lintr
-        exclude: >
-          (?x)^(
-          tests/testthat/test-fetchers\.R|
-          vignettes/.*
-          )$
-    -   id: parsable-R
-        exclude: > 
-          (?x)^(
-          tests/testthat/in/.*|
-          )$
-    -   id: no-browser-statement
-
-default_stages: ["commit"]
-
-ci:
-    # skip: [consistent-release-tag, spell-check-ordered-exclude, pkgdown]
-    autoupdate_schedule: monthly
diff --git a/create_dev_env.R b/create_dev_env.R
index 5ab7075e..07bae46c 100644
--- a/create_dev_env.R
+++ b/create_dev_env.R
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ rix(
   r_pkgs = c(
     "devtools", "diffviewer", "fledge", "lintr", "styler",
     "codetools", "jsonlite", "httr", "sys", "testthat", "knitr",
-    "rmarkdown", "rhub", "docopt", "precommit"
+    "rmarkdown", "rhub"
   ),
   system_pkgs = c("R", "glibcLocalesUtf8", "pandoc", "nix"),
   tex_pkgs = "scheme-small",
diff --git a/default.nix b/default.nix
index 852b2ae0..832c48b5 100644
--- a/default.nix
+++ b/default.nix
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# This file was generated by the {rix} R package v0.11.0 on 2024-09-16
+# This file was generated by the {rix} R package v0.11.0 on 2024-09-20
 # with following call:
 # >rix(r_ver = "bleeding_edge",
 #  > r_pkgs = c("devtools",
@@ -13,9 +13,7 @@
 #  > "testthat",
 #  > "knitr",
 #  > "rmarkdown",
-#  > "rhub",
-#  > "docopt",
-#  > "precommit"),
+#  > "rhub"),
 #  > system_pkgs = c("R",
 #  > "glibcLocalesUtf8",
 #  > "pandoc",
@@ -39,13 +37,11 @@ let
       codetools
       devtools
       diffviewer
-      docopt
       fledge
       httr
       jsonlite
       knitr
       lintr
-      precommit
       rhub
       rmarkdown
       styler
@@ -70,7 +66,7 @@ let
 in
 
 pkgs.mkShell {
-  LOCALE_ARCHIVE = if pkgs.system == "x86_64-linux" then  "${pkgs.glibcLocales}/lib/locale/locale-archive" else "";
+  LOCALE_ARCHIVE = if pkgs.system == "x86_64-linux" then "${pkgs.glibcLocales}/lib/locale/locale-archive" else "";
   LANG = "en_US.UTF-8";
    LC_ALL = "en_US.UTF-8";
    LC_TIME = "en_US.UTF-8";