diff --git a/.github/workflows/lint.yml b/.github/workflows/lint.yml
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..850976317
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.github/workflows/lint.yml
@@ -0,0 +1,20 @@
+name: Lint
+
+on: [push, pull_request, workflow_dispatch]
+
+env:
+  FORCE_COLOR: 1
+
+permissions:
+  contents: read
+
+jobs:
+  lint:
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+
+    steps:
+      - uses: actions/checkout@v4
+      - uses: actions/setup-python@v4
+        with:
+          python-version: "3.x"
+      - uses: pre-commit/action@v3.0.0
diff --git a/.github/workflows/tests.yml b/.github/workflows/tests.yml
index ff94f3e2b..4592194cc 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/tests.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/tests.yml
@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ jobs:
     strategy:
       fail-fast: false
       matrix:
-        # when adding new versions, update the one used to test 
+        # when adding new versions, update the one used to test
         # friend projects below to the latest one
         python-version: ["3.8", "3.9", "3.10", "3.11", "3.12", "3.13"]
         os: [ubuntu-latest, macos-latest, windows-latest]
diff --git a/.pre-commit-config.yaml b/.pre-commit-config.yaml
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..7447b5ce2
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.pre-commit-config.yaml
@@ -0,0 +1,48 @@
+repos:
+  - repo: https://github.com/astral-sh/ruff-pre-commit
+    rev: v0.1.6
+    hooks:
+      - id: ruff
+        args: [--fix, --exit-non-zero-on-fix]
+
+  - repo: https://github.com/psf/black-pre-commit-mirror
+    rev: 23.11.0
+    hooks:
+      - id: black
+
+  - repo: https://github.com/pre-commit/pre-commit-hooks
+    rev: v4.5.0
+    hooks:
+      - id: check-case-conflict
+      - id: check-merge-conflict
+      - id: check-toml
+      - id: check-yaml
+      - id: debug-statements
+      - id: end-of-file-fixer
+        exclude: tests/fixtures/xfail/missing-newline-at-end-of-file.rst
+      - id: trailing-whitespace
+        exclude: tests/fixtures/xfail/trailing-whitespaces.rst
+
+  - repo: https://github.com/tox-dev/pyproject-fmt
+    rev: 1.5.1
+    hooks:
+      - id: pyproject-fmt
+        additional_dependencies: [tox]
+
+  - repo: https://github.com/abravalheri/validate-pyproject
+    rev: v0.15
+    hooks:
+      - id: validate-pyproject
+
+  - repo: https://github.com/tox-dev/tox-ini-fmt
+    rev: 1.3.1
+    hooks:
+      - id: tox-ini-fmt
+
+  - repo: meta
+    hooks:
+      - id: check-hooks-apply
+      - id: check-useless-excludes
+
+ci:
+  autoupdate_schedule: quarterly
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index afb5200ee..39541db9c 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -102,7 +102,7 @@ $ docutils --writer=pseudoxml tests/fixtures/xpass/role-in-code-sample.rst
 
 1. Make sure that the [CI tests pass](https://github.com/sphinx-contrib/sphinx-lint/actions)
    and optionally double-check locally with "friends projects" by running:
-   
+
        sh download-more-tests.sh
        python -m pytest
 2. Go on the [Releases page](https://github.com/sphinx-contrib/sphinx-lint/releases)
diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index 298c32435..69bb7c8cf 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -14,31 +14,36 @@ authors = [
     {name = "Georg Brandl", email = "georg@python.org"},
     {name = "Julien Palard", email = "julien@palard.fr"},
 ]
+requires-python = ">= 3.8"
 classifiers = [
-    "Development Status :: 5 - Production/Stable",
-    "Topic :: Documentation :: Sphinx",
-    "Intended Audience :: Developers",
-    "License :: OSI Approved :: Python Software Foundation License",
-    "Natural Language :: English",
-    "Programming Language :: Python :: 3",
+  "Development Status :: 5 - Production/Stable",
+  "Intended Audience :: Developers",
+  "License :: OSI Approved :: Python Software Foundation License",
+  "Natural Language :: English",
+  "Programming Language :: Python :: 3 :: Only",
+  "Programming Language :: Python :: 3.8",
+  "Programming Language :: Python :: 3.9",
+  "Programming Language :: Python :: 3.10",
+  "Programming Language :: Python :: 3.11",
+  "Programming Language :: Python :: 3.12",
+  "Programming Language :: Python :: 3.13",
+  "Topic :: Documentation :: Sphinx",
+]
+dynamic = [
+  "version",
 ]
-requires-python = ">= 3.8"
 dependencies = [
-    "regex",
-    "polib",
+  "polib",
+  "regex",
 ]
-dynamic = ["version"]
-
-
 [project.optional-dependencies]
 tests = [
   "pytest",
   "pytest-cov",
 ]
 [project.urls]
-Repository = "https://github.com/sphinx-contrib/sphinx-lint"
 Changelog = "https://github.com/sphinx-contrib/sphinx-lint/releases"
-
+Repository = "https://github.com/sphinx-contrib/sphinx-lint"
 [project.scripts]
 sphinx-lint = "sphinxlint.cli:main"
 
@@ -50,5 +55,25 @@ local_scheme = "no-local-version"
 
 [tool.black]
 
+[tool.ruff]
+select = [
+  "E", # pycodestyle errors
+  "F", # pyflakes errors
+  "I", # isort
+  "ISC", # flake8-implicit-str-concat
+  "PGH", # pygrep-hooks
+  "RUF100", # unused noqa (yesqa)
+  "UP", # pyupgrade
+  "W", # pycodestyle warnings
+  "YTT", # flake8-2020
+]
+extend-ignore = [
+  "E203", # Whitespace before ':'
+  "E221", # Multiple spaces before operator
+  "E226", # Missing whitespace around arithmetic operator
+  "E241", # Multiple spaces after ','
+  "UP038", # makes code slower and more verbose
+]
+
 [tool.pylint.variables]
 callbacks = ["check_"]
diff --git a/sphinxlint/checkers.py b/sphinxlint/checkers.py
index 791cac6ca..141e3a73d 100644
--- a/sphinxlint/checkers.py
+++ b/sphinxlint/checkers.py
@@ -12,7 +12,6 @@
     paragraphs,
 )
 
-
 all_checkers = {}
 
 
@@ -60,7 +59,10 @@ def check_missing_backtick_after_role(file, lines, options=None):
         error = rst.ROLE_MISSING_CLOSING_BACKTICK_RE.search(paragraph)
         if error:
             error_offset = paragraph[: error.start()].count("\n")
-            yield paragraph_lno + error_offset, f"role missing closing backtick: {error.group(0)!r}"
+            yield (
+                paragraph_lno + error_offset,
+                f"role missing closing backtick: {error.group(0)!r}",
+            )
 
 
 _RST_ROLE_RE = re.compile("``.+?``(?!`).", flags=re.DOTALL)
@@ -129,8 +131,12 @@ def check_default_role(file, lines, options=None):
             before_match = line[: match.start()]
             after_match = line[match.end() :]
             stripped_line = line.strip()
-            if (stripped_line.startswith("|") and stripped_line.endswith("|") and
-                stripped_line.count("|") >= 4 and "|" in match.group(0)):
+            if (
+                stripped_line.startswith("|")
+                and stripped_line.endswith("|")
+                and stripped_line.count("|") >= 4
+                and "|" in match.group(0)
+            ):
                 return  # we don't handle tables yet.
             if _ends_with_role_tag(before_match):
                 # It's not a default role: it ends with a tag.
@@ -141,7 +147,10 @@ def check_default_role(file, lines, options=None):
             if match.group(0).startswith("``") and match.group(0).endswith("``"):
                 # It's not a default role: it's an inline literal.
                 continue
-            yield lno, "default role used (hint: for inline literals, use double backticks)"
+            yield (
+                lno,
+                "default role used (hint: for inline literals, use double backticks)",
+            )
 
 
 @checker(".rst", ".po")
@@ -287,7 +296,10 @@ def check_role_with_double_backticks(file, lines, options=None):
             before = paragraph[: inline_literal.start()]
             if _ends_with_role_tag(before):
                 error_offset = paragraph[: inline_literal.start()].count("\n")
-                yield paragraph_lno + error_offset, "role use a single backtick, double backtick found."
+                yield (
+                    paragraph_lno + error_offset,
+                    "role use a single backtick, double backtick found.",
+                )
             paragraph = (
                 paragraph[: inline_literal.start()] + paragraph[inline_literal.end() :]
             )
@@ -308,9 +320,15 @@ def check_missing_space_before_role(file, lines, options=None):
         if match:
             error_offset = paragraph[: match.start()].count("\n")
             if looks_like_glued(match):
-                yield paragraph_lno + error_offset, f"missing space before role ({match.group(0)})."
+                yield (
+                    paragraph_lno + error_offset,
+                    f"missing space before role ({match.group(0)}).",
+                )
             else:
-                yield paragraph_lno + error_offset, f"role missing opening tag colon ({match.group(0)})."
+                yield (
+                    paragraph_lno + error_offset,
+                    f"role missing opening tag colon ({match.group(0)}).",
+                )
 
 
 @checker(".rst", ".po")
@@ -494,4 +512,4 @@ def check_dangling_hyphen(file, lines, options):
     for lno, line in enumerate(lines):
         stripped_line = line.rstrip("\n")
         if _has_dangling_hyphen(stripped_line):
-            yield lno + 1, f"Line ends with dangling hyphen"
+            yield lno + 1, "Line ends with dangling hyphen"
diff --git a/sphinxlint/cli.py b/sphinxlint/cli.py
index 55d2bdaf5..c0a5638bf 100644
--- a/sphinxlint/cli.py
+++ b/sphinxlint/cli.py
@@ -54,7 +54,8 @@ def __call__(self, parser, namespace, values, option_string=None):
                     sort_fields.append(SortField[field_name.upper()])
                 except KeyError:
                     raise ValueError(
-                        f"Unsupported sort field: {field_name}, supported values are {SortField.as_supported_options()}"
+                        f"Unsupported sort field: {field_name}, "
+                        f"supported values are {SortField.as_supported_options()}"
                     ) from None
             setattr(namespace, self.dest, sort_fields)
 
@@ -85,7 +86,8 @@ def job_count(values):
         "-d",
         "--disable",
         action=DisableAction,
-        help='comma-separated list of checks to disable. Give "all" to disable them all. '
+        help="comma-separated list of checks to disable. "
+        'Give "all" to disable them all. '
         "Can be used in conjunction with --enable (it's evaluated left-to-right). "
         '"--disable all --enable trailing-whitespace" can be used to enable a '
         "single check.",
diff --git a/sphinxlint/utils.py b/sphinxlint/utils.py
index 1dfb3ffec..6aee9d51a 100644
--- a/sphinxlint/utils.py
+++ b/sphinxlint/utils.py
@@ -6,7 +6,6 @@
 
 from sphinxlint import rst
 
-
 PER_FILE_CACHES = []
 
 
@@ -187,10 +186,7 @@ def hide_non_rst_blocks(lines, hidden_block_cb=None):
             in_literal = len(_ZERO_OR_MORE_SPACES_RE.match(line)[0])
             block_line_start = lineno
             assert not excluded_lines
-            if (
-                type_of_explicit_markup(line) == "comment"
-                and _COMMENT_RE.search(line)
-            ):
+            if type_of_explicit_markup(line) == "comment" and _COMMENT_RE.search(line):
                 line = "\n"
         output.append(line)
     if excluded_lines and hidden_block_cb:
diff --git a/tests/test_default_role_re.py b/tests/test_default_role_re.py
index 86dd2d23a..5e68eaa4b 100644
--- a/tests/test_default_role_re.py
+++ b/tests/test_default_role_re.py
@@ -12,5 +12,5 @@ def test_shall_not_pass():
     assert not rst.INTERPRETED_TEXT_RE.search("``")
     assert not rst.INTERPRETED_TEXT_RE.search("2 * x a ** b (* BOM32_* ` `` _ __ |")
     assert not rst.INTERPRETED_TEXT_RE.search(
-        """"`" '|' (`) [`] {`} <`> ‘`’ ‚`‘ ‘`‚ ’`’ ‚`’ “`” „`“ “`„ ”`” „`” »`« ›`‹ «`» »`» ›`›"""
+        """"`" '|' (`) [`] {`} <`> ‘`’ ‚`‘ ‘`‚ ’`’ ‚`’ “`” „`“ “`„ ”`” „`” »`« ›`‹ «`» »`» ›`›"""  # noqa: E501
     )
diff --git a/tests/test_enable_disable.py b/tests/test_enable_disable.py
index 1d0c1fd45..1fd506da9 100644
--- a/tests/test_enable_disable.py
+++ b/tests/test_enable_disable.py
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
-from random import choice
 import re
+from random import choice
 
 from sphinxlint.cli import main
 
diff --git a/tests/test_filter_out_literal.py b/tests/test_filter_out_literal.py
index 4ea7f54a5..34a7792dd 100644
--- a/tests/test_filter_out_literal.py
+++ b/tests/test_filter_out_literal.py
@@ -1,6 +1,5 @@
 from sphinxlint.utils import hide_non_rst_blocks
 
-
 LITERAL = r"""
 Hide non-RST Blocks
 ===================
diff --git a/tests/test_sphinxlint.py b/tests/test_sphinxlint.py
index 85b08afaa..4e68ed5a1 100644
--- a/tests/test_sphinxlint.py
+++ b/tests/test_sphinxlint.py
@@ -1,10 +1,9 @@
 from pathlib import Path
 
-from sphinxlint.utils import paragraphs
-
 import pytest
 
 from sphinxlint.cli import main
+from sphinxlint.utils import paragraphs
 
 FIXTURE_DIR = Path(__file__).resolve().parent / "fixtures"
 
@@ -64,7 +63,9 @@ def test_sphinxlint_shall_not_pass(file, expected_errors, capsys):
         assert expected_error in err
     number_of_expected_errors = len(expected_errors)
     number_of_reported_errors = len(err.splitlines())
-    assert number_of_expected_errors == number_of_reported_errors, f"{number_of_reported_errors=}, {err=}"
+    assert (
+        number_of_expected_errors == number_of_reported_errors
+    ), f"{number_of_reported_errors=}, {err=}"
 
 
 @pytest.mark.parametrize("file", [str(FIXTURE_DIR / "paragraphs.rst")])
diff --git a/tests/test_xpass_friends.py b/tests/test_xpass_friends.py
index 206b35068..2bb42aa0a 100644
--- a/tests/test_xpass_friends.py
+++ b/tests/test_xpass_friends.py
@@ -3,14 +3,13 @@
 This is useful to avoid a sphinx-lint release to break many CIs.
 """
 
-from pathlib import Path
 import shlex
+from pathlib import Path
 
 import pytest
 
 from sphinxlint.cli import main
 
-
 FIXTURE_DIR = Path(__file__).resolve().parent / "fixtures"
 
 
diff --git a/tox.ini b/tox.ini
index fe5261b02..e616fc791 100644
--- a/tox.ini
+++ b/tox.ini
@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@
 requires =
     tox>=4.2
 env_list =
+    lint
     py{py3, 313, 312, 311, 310, 39, 38}
 
 [testenv]
@@ -17,3 +18,12 @@ commands =
       --cov-report term \
       --cov-report xml \
       {posargs}
+
+[testenv:lint]
+skip_install = true
+deps =
+    pre-commit
+pass_env =
+    PRE_COMMIT_COLOR
+commands =
+    pre-commit run --all-files --show-diff-on-failure