diff --git a/.pre-commit-config.yaml b/.pre-commit-config.yaml
--- a/.pre-commit-config.yaml
+++ b/.pre-commit-config.yaml
@@ -12,6 +12,11 @@
   hooks:
   - id: codespell
 
+- repo: https://github.com/pre-commit/mirrors-mypy
+  rev: 'master'
+  hooks:
+  - id: mypy
+
 # unfortunately, we are far from being able to enable this...
 # - repo: https://github.com/PyCQA/pydocstyle.git
 #   rev: 4.0.0