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+# This file contains all the hooks that precommend would ever recommend to users.
+# They are kept in this file in order to allow pre-commit CI to update them on a
+# regular basis. If you want to add a new hook, add it here and then add a corresponding
+# inclusion rule in rules.py. Note that YAML parsing with comment preservation is
+# a fickle issue: Only end-of-line comments are safe to use with our toolchain.
+
+repos:
+  - repo: local
+    hooks:
+      - id: synchronize-files
+        name: Synchronize files within the repository
+        entry: python sync.py
+        language: system
+        always_run: true
+        pass_filenames: false
+
+  - repo: https://github.com/psf/black
+    rev: 24.3.0
+    hooks:
+      - id: black  # Run Black - the uncompromising Python code formatter
+      - id: black-jupyter  # Run Black - the uncompromising Python code formatter (Jupyter version)
+
+  - repo: https://github.com/pre-commit/pre-commit-hooks
+    rev: v4.5.0
+    hooks:
+      - id: end-of-file-fixer  # Ensure existence of newline characters at file ends
+      - id: check-yaml  # Make sure that contained YAML files are well-formed
+      - id: trailing-whitespace  # Trim trailing whitespace of all sorts
+      - id: check-added-large-files  # Apply a file size limit of 500kB
+      - id: check-toml  # Simple parser validation of e.g. pyproject.toml
+      - id: requirements-txt-fixer  # Sort lines in requirements files
+      - id: check-json  # Check validity of JSON files
+      - id: pretty-format-json  # Format JSON files consistently
+        exclude_types:
+          - jupyter
+        args:
+          - --autofix
+      - id: mixed-line-ending  # Ensure consistent line endings
+
+  - repo: https://github.com/rhysd/actionlint
+    rev: v1.6.27
+    hooks:
+      - id: actionlint  # GitHub Actions Workflow linter
+
+  - repo: https://github.com/kynan/nbstripout
+    rev: 0.7.1
+    hooks:
+      - id: nbstripout # Make sure that Jupyter notebooks under version control have their outputs stripped before committing
+        files: ".ipynb"
+
+  - repo: https://github.com/cheshirekow/cmake-format-precommit
+    rev: v0.6.13
+    hooks:
+      - id: cmake-format  # Apply formatting to CMake files
+        additional_dependencies:
+          - pyyaml
+      - id: cmake-lint  # Apply linting to CMake files
+
+  - repo: https://github.com/pre-commit/mirrors-clang-format
+    rev: v18.1.1
+    hooks:
+      - id: clang-format  # Format C++ code with Clang-Format - automatically applying the changes
+        args:
+        - --style=Mozilla
+
+  - repo: https://github.com/asottile/setup-cfg-fmt
+    rev: v2.5.0
+    hooks:
+      - id: setup-cfg-fmt  # Automatically format/sanitize setup.cfg
+
+  - repo: https://github.com/citation-file-format/cffconvert
+    rev: main
+    hooks:
+      - id: validate-cff # Validate CFF format
+
+  - repo: https://github.com/lovesegfault/beautysh
+    rev: v6.2.1
+    hooks:
+      - id: beautysh  # Beautify Bash scripts
+
+  - repo: https://github.com/abravalheri/validate-pyproject
+    rev: v0.16
+    hooks:
+      - id: validate-pyproject  # Validate the contents of pyproject.toml
+
+  - repo: https://github.com/python-jsonschema/check-jsonschema
+    rev: 0.28.0
+    hooks:
+      - id: check-readthedocs  # Validate the given .readthedocs.yml file
+      - id: check-dependabot  # Validate the given dependabot.yml file
diff --git a/precommend/.pre-commit-config.yaml b/precommend/.pre-commit-config.yaml
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@@ -5,6 +5,15 @@
 # a fickle issue: Only end-of-line comments are safe to use with our toolchain.
 
 repos:
+  - repo: local
+    hooks:
+      - id: synchronize-files
+        name: Synchronize files within the repository
+        entry: python sync.py
+        language: system
+        always_run: true
+        pass_filenames: false
+
   - repo: https://github.com/psf/black
     rev: 24.3.0
     hooks:
diff --git a/sync.py b/sync.py
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+import hashlib
+import os
+import shutil
+
+
+# Check whether we need to copy the config file
+if (
+    not os.path.exists("precommend/.pre-commit-config.yaml")
+    or hashlib.md5(open("precommend/.pre-commit-config.yaml", "rb").read()).hexdigest()
+    != hashlib.md5(open(".pre-commit-config.yaml", "rb").read()).hexdigest()
+):
+    shutil.copy(".pre-commit-config.yaml", "precommend/.pre-commit-config.yaml")
+    raise SystemExit(1)