diff --git a/.pre-commit-config.yaml b/.pre-commit-config.yaml
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..eb5b0a78
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.pre-commit-config.yaml
@@ -0,0 +1,24 @@
+repos:
+  - repo: https://github.com/pre-commit/pre-commit-hooks
+    rev: v4.6.0
+    hooks:
+      - id: check-yaml
+      - id: end-of-file-fixer
+      - id: trailing-whitespace
+  - repo: local
+    hooks:
+      - id: cargo-fmt
+        name: cargo-fmt
+        language: system
+        types: [file, rust]
+        entry: bash -c "cd envoyfilter && cargo fmt --all"
+      - id: cargo-clippy
+        name: cargo-clippy
+        language: system
+        types: [file, rust]
+        entry: bash -c "cd envoyfilter && cargo clippy --all"
+      - id: cargo-test
+        name: cargo-test
+        language: system
+        types: [file, rust]
+        entry: bash -c "cd envoyfilter && cargo test --all"
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index d3644c91..26c6a726 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -1 +1,11 @@
 A open source project for developers to build and secure faster, more personalized generative AI apps. Katanemo is a high performance gateway designed with state of the art (SOTA) fast LLMs to process, route and evaluate prompts.
+
+# Dev setup
+
+## Pre-commit
+Use instructions at [pre-commit.com](https://pre-commit.com/#install) to set it up for your machine. Once installed make sure github hooks are setup, so that when you upstream your change pre-commit hooks can run and validate your change. Follow command below to setup github hooks,
+
+```sh
+➜  intelligent-prompt-gateway git:(main) ✗ pre-commit install
+pre-commit installed at .git/hooks/pre-commit
+```
diff --git a/gateway.code-workspace b/gateway.code-workspace
index b9cf62c5..98d02f91 100644
--- a/gateway.code-workspace
+++ b/gateway.code-workspace
@@ -14,4 +14,4 @@
     },
   ],
   "settings": {}
-}
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+}