diff --git a/.pre-commit-config.yaml b/.pre-commit-config.yaml
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..26a875a6
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.pre-commit-config.yaml
@@ -0,0 +1,18 @@
+repos:
+-   repo: git://github.com/pre-commit/pre-commit-hooks
+    sha: v1.1.1
+    hooks:
+    -   id: trailing-whitespace
+        args: ['--no-markdown-linebreak-ext']
+    -   id: check-merge-conflict
+    -   id: debug-statements
+    -   id: check-added-large-files
+    -   id: flake8
+
+-   repo: git://github.com/chewse/pre-commit-mirrors-pydocstyle
+    sha: v2.1.1
+    hooks:
+    -   id: pydocstyle
+        args: ['--select=D204,D201,D209,D210,D212,D300,D403']
+
+exclude: '^(?!bigchaindb/)(?!tests/)'
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index c29abb53..072cda20 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -32,6 +32,7 @@ dev_require = [
     'ipython',
     'watchdog',
     'logging_tree',
+    'pre-commit'
 ]
 
 docs_require = [