diff --git a/.githooks/pre-commit b/.githooks/pre-commit
deleted file mode 100644
index 29b97a1..0000000
--- a/.githooks/pre-commit
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,17 +0,0 @@
-#!/bin/sh
-
-# to activate this git pre commit file run the following command;
-# git config core.hooksPath .githooks
-
-# get added and modified python files
-for file in $(git diff --cached --name-only --diff-filter=AM | grep -E '\.(py)$')  
-
-# run black
-do    
-	black "$file"
-	
-	$(git add "$file")    
-	
-	done
-
-
diff --git a/.pre-commit-config.yaml b/.pre-commit-config.yaml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..2f763ea
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.pre-commit-config.yaml
@@ -0,0 +1,9 @@
+repos:
+-   repo: https://github.com/psf/black
+    rev: 19.3b0
+    hooks:
+    -   id: black
+-   repo: https://github.com/PyCQA/flake8
+    rev: 3.9.2
+    hooks:
+    -   id: flake8
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diff --git a/requirements-dev.txt b/requirements-dev.txt
index 58e67f2..10d78d6 100644
--- a/requirements-dev.txt
+++ b/requirements-dev.txt
@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@ pytest>=5.4.1
 pytest-mock>=3.0.0
 pytest-cov>=2.10.1
 pytest-benchmark
+pre-commit==2.15.0
 black>=19.10b0
 flake8==3.8.4
 bandit>=1.7.0 
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