diff --git a/.pre-commit-config.yaml b/.pre-commit-config.yaml
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..8ccce9f40
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.pre-commit-config.yaml
@@ -0,0 +1,14 @@
+repos:
+  - repo: https://github.com/pre-commit/pre-commit-hooks
+    rev: v3.2.0
+    hooks:
+      - id: check-ast
+      - id: check-builtin-literals
+      - id: end-of-file-fixer
+      - id: trailing-whitespace
+
+  - repo: https://github.com/python/black
+    rev: 20.8b1
+    hooks:
+      - id: black
+        language_version: python3
diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..7facaff7f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -0,0 +1,17 @@
+[tool.black]
+line-length = 99
+target-version = ['py27', 'py35', 'py36', 'py37', 'py38']
+exclude = '''
+/(
+    \.eggs
+  | \.git
+  | \.hg
+  | \.mypy_cache
+  | \.tox
+  | \.venv
+  | _build
+  | buck-out
+  | build
+  | dist
+)/
+'''
diff --git a/requirements_dev.txt b/requirements_dev.txt
index 2875c043e..2f8ac1660 100644
--- a/requirements_dev.txt
+++ b/requirements_dev.txt
@@ -10,6 +10,7 @@ pytest
 pytest-runner
 pytest-cov
 coverage
+pre-commit
 flake8
 
 #deployment