diff --git a/.github/workflows/pre-commit.yml b/.github/workflows/pre-commit.yml
index bb151c0d74..f78a90d874 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/pre-commit.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/pre-commit.yml
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-name: Run Python and Bazel google-benchmark pre-commit checks
+name: python + Bazel pre-commit checks
 
 on:
   push:
@@ -37,7 +37,3 @@ jobs:
     - name: Run pre-commit checks
       run: |
         pre-commit run --all-files --verbose --show-diff-on-failure
-
-    - name: Run pylint
-      run: |
-        pylint `find . -name '*.py'|xargs` || pylint-exit $?
diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index d8dad76516..0bac140bb9 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -54,3 +54,37 @@ where = ["bindings/python"]
 [tool.setuptools.dynamic]
 version = { attr = "google_benchmark.__version__" }
 readme = { file = "README.md", content-type = "text/markdown" }
+
+[tool.black]
+# Source https://github.com/psf/black#configuration-format
+include = "\\.pyi?$"
+line-length = 80
+target-version = ["py311"]
+
+# Black-compatible settings for isort
+# See https://black.readthedocs.io/en/stable/
+[tool.isort]
+line_length = "80"
+profile = "black"
+
+[tool.mypy]
+check_untyped_defs = true
+disallow_incomplete_defs = true
+pretty = true
+python_version = "3.11"
+strict_optional = false
+warn_unreachable = true
+
+[[tool.mypy.overrides]]
+module = ["yaml"]
+ignore_missing_imports = true
+
+[tool.ruff]
+# Enable pycodestyle (`E`) and Pyflakes (`F`) codes by default.
+select = ["E", "F", "W"]
+ignore = [
+    # whitespace before colon (:), rely on black for formatting (in particular, allow spaces before ":" in list/array slices)
+    "E203",
+    # line too long, rely on black for reformatting of these, since sometimes URLs or comments can be longer
+    "E501",
+]