diff --git a/.flake8 b/.flake8
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..0c9d6d8
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.flake8
@@ -0,0 +1,9 @@
+[flake8]
+extend-exclude = .venv
+statistics = True
+count = True
+show-source = True
+# The GitHub editor is 127 chars wide
+max-line-length = 127
+# Ignore valid SQLAlchemy NULL query syntax
+extend-ignore = E711
diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index 73df3ab..fce99d7 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -1,5 +1,4 @@
 uv.lock
-.pre-commit-config.yaml
 .eggs
 .env
 *~
diff --git a/.pre-commit-config.yaml b/.pre-commit-config.yaml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..a9d22c7
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.pre-commit-config.yaml
@@ -0,0 +1,15 @@
+# See https://pre-commit.com for more information
+# See https://pre-commit.com/hooks.html for more hooks
+repos:
+-   repo: https://github.com/pre-commit/pre-commit-hooks
+    rev: v5.0.0
+    hooks:
+    -   id: trailing-whitespace
+    -   id: end-of-file-fixer
+        exclude: '^.*\.svg$'
+    -   id: check-yaml
+    -   id: check-added-large-files
+-   repo: https://github.com/pycqa/flake8
+    rev: '7.2.0'
+    hooks:
+    -   id: flake8
diff --git a/noxfile.py b/noxfile.py
index ce2bc04..8fe9295 100644
--- a/noxfile.py
+++ b/noxfile.py
@@ -57,12 +57,9 @@ def lint(session):
     """Run flake8."""
     session.install("flake8")
     # stop the linter if there are Python syntax errors or undefined names
-    session.run(
-        "flake8", ".", "--count", "--select=E9,F63,F7,F82", "--show-source", "--statistics", "--extend-exclude", ".venv")
-    # exit-zero treats all errors as warnings. The GitHub editor is 127 chars wide
-    session.run(
-        "flake8", ".", "--count", "--exit-zero", "--max-complexity=10", "--extend-ignore=E711",
-        "--max-line-length=127", "--statistics", "--extend-exclude", ".venv")
+    session.run("flake8", "--select=E9,F63,F7,F82", "--show-source")
+    # exit-zero treats all errors as warnings
+    session.run("flake8", "--exit-zero", "--max-complexity=10")
 
 
 def parametrize_test_versions():
diff --git a/requirements-test.txt b/requirements-test.txt
index b8425ec..07d2fbc 100644
--- a/requirements-test.txt
+++ b/requirements-test.txt
@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
 pytest
 pytest-cov
-hypothesis
\ No newline at end of file
+hypothesis