pre-commit config top level exclude doesn't work?

I have the following .pre-commit-config.yaml file. At the first line, I have this top level exclude path to exclude all checks in that folder, but for some reason, the mypy hook still outputs errors from files in that folder. Could someone help me understand what's going on? Thanks.

exclude: "src/project/proto/"
default_language_version:
  python: python3.8
repos:
  - repo: https://github.com/pre-commit/pre-commit-hooks
    rev: v4.4.0
    hooks:
      - id: check-ast
      - id: check-docstring-first
      - id: check-executables-have-shebangs
      - id: check-json
      - id: check-merge-conflict
      - id: check-yaml
      - id: debug-statements
      - id: end-of-file-fixer
      - id: trailing-whitespace
  - repo: https://github.com/asottile/pyupgrade
    rev: v3.2.2
    hooks:
      - id: pyupgrade
  - repo: https://github.com/asottile/reorder_python_imports
    rev: v3.9.0
    hooks:
      - id: reorder-python-imports
        args: [--py3-plus]
  - repo: https://github.com/asottile/add-trailing-comma
    rev: v2.3.0
    hooks:
      - id: add-trailing-comma
  - repo: https://github.com/pre-commit/mirrors-mypy
    rev: v0.991
    hooks:
      - id: mypy
        args: [--strict]
        additional_dependencies:
          [types-protobuf>=4.21.0.0, types-termcolor>=1.1.6, pytest>=7.2.0]
  - repo: https://github.com/PyCQA/flake8
    rev: 6.0.0
    hooks:
      - id: flake8

I also have this mypy.ini. Just in case, I missed anything here.

[mypy]
python_version = 3.8
mypy_path = ./src:./tests

[mypy-lark.*]
ignore_missing_imports = True

Solution

it is working, but not in the way you expect

mypy performs dynamic analysis and will follow imports. pre-commit is not passing those filenames onto mypy but they are being checked due to follow-imports

you will need to also use mypy's settings to ignore errors there

disclaimer: I created pre-commit