diff --git a/.clang-format b/.clang-format
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..7af7c0f54
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.clang-format
@@ -0,0 +1,63 @@
+---
+BasedOnStyle: Google
+AccessModifierOffset: -2
+ConstructorInitializerIndentWidth: 2
+AlignEscapedNewlinesLeft: false
+AlignTrailingComments: true
+AllowAllParametersOfDeclarationOnNextLine: false
+AllowShortIfStatementsOnASingleLine: false
+AllowShortLoopsOnASingleLine: false
+AllowShortFunctionsOnASingleLine: None
+AlwaysBreakTemplateDeclarations: true
+AlwaysBreakBeforeMultilineStrings: true
+BreakBeforeBinaryOperators: false
+BreakBeforeTernaryOperators: false
+BreakConstructorInitializersBeforeComma: true
+BinPackParameters: true
+ColumnLimit: 120
+ConstructorInitializerAllOnOneLineOrOnePerLine: true
+DerivePointerBinding: false
+PointerBindsToType: true
+ExperimentalAutoDetectBinPacking: false
+IndentCaseLabels: true
+MaxEmptyLinesToKeep: 1
+NamespaceIndentation: None
+ObjCSpaceBeforeProtocolList: true
+PenaltyBreakBeforeFirstCallParameter: 19
+PenaltyBreakComment: 60
+PenaltyBreakString: 1
+PenaltyBreakFirstLessLess: 1000
+PenaltyExcessCharacter: 1000
+PenaltyReturnTypeOnItsOwnLine: 90
+SpacesBeforeTrailingComments: 2
+Cpp11BracedListStyle: false
+Standard: Auto
+IndentWidth: 2
+TabWidth: 2
+UseTab: Never
+IndentFunctionDeclarationAfterType: false
+SpacesInParentheses: false
+SpacesInAngles: false
+SpaceInEmptyParentheses: false
+SpacesInCStyleCastParentheses: false
+SpaceAfterControlStatementKeyword: true
+SpaceBeforeAssignmentOperators: true
+ContinuationIndentWidth: 4
+SortIncludes: false
+SpaceAfterCStyleCast: false
+
+# Configure each individual brace in BraceWrapping
+BreakBeforeBraces: Custom
+
+# Control of individual brace wrapping cases
+BraceWrapping:
+  AfterClass: true
+  AfterControlStatement: 'true'
+  AfterEnum: true
+  AfterFunction: true
+  AfterNamespace: true
+  AfterStruct: true
+  AfterUnion: true
+  BeforeCatch: true
+  BeforeElse: true
+  IndentBraces: false
diff --git a/.pre-commit-config.yaml b/.pre-commit-config.yaml
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..5dc508125
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.pre-commit-config.yaml
@@ -0,0 +1,32 @@
+---
+repos:
+  - repo: https://github.com/pre-commit/pre-commit-hooks
+    rev: v2.3.0
+    hooks:
+      - id: check-yaml
+      - id: check-xml
+      - id: check-json
+      - id: end-of-file-fixer
+      - id: trailing-whitespace
+      - id: check-added-large-files
+
+    # Python
+  - repo: https://github.com/psf/black
+    rev: 22.10.0
+    hooks:
+      - id: black
+        language: python
+        args: [--line-length=120]
+
+    # C++
+  - repo: https://github.com/pre-commit/mirrors-clang-format
+    rev: v17.0.3
+    hooks:
+      - id: clang-format
+
+#    # YAML  - still bad support for comments in YAML files
+#  - repo: https://github.com/jumanjihouse/pre-commit-hook-yamlfmt
+#    rev: 0.2.1    # or other specific tag
+#    hooks:
+#      - id: yamlfmt
+#        args: [--mapping, '2', --sequence, '4', --offset, '2', --width, '120']
diff --git a/docs/how_to_contribute.md b/docs/how_to_contribute.md
index 8d13b16b4..e9dde7bef 100644
--- a/docs/how_to_contribute.md
+++ b/docs/how_to_contribute.md
@@ -14,6 +14,6 @@ Pre-commit, the format plugin, will run automatically before each commit. The sp
 .pre-commit-config.yaml. To activate this plugin, please run the following command in terminal and root directory:
 
 ```bash
-    pip install pre-commit
+    pip3 install pre-commit
     pre-commit install
 ```