diff --git a/.bazelrc b/.bazelrc
index d1e338ba..05172656 100644
--- a/.bazelrc
+++ b/.bazelrc
@@ -78,3 +78,17 @@ test:asan_ubsan_lsan --copt -g3
 test:asan_ubsan_lsan --platform_suffix=asan_ubsan_lsan
 test:asan_ubsan_lsan --test_env=ASAN_OPTIONS="exitcode=55 allow_addr2line=1 verbosity=1 coverage=1 check_initialization_order=1 detect_stack_use_after_return=1 print_stats=1 halt_on_error=1 allocator_may_return_null=1 detect_leaks=1"
 test:asan_ubsan_lsan --test_env=UBSAN_OPTIONS="exitcode=55 allow_addr2line=1 verbosity=1 coverage=1 print_stacktrace=1 halt_on_error=1"
+
+build:clang_format --config=_bl_stub
+build:clang_format --output_groups=clang_format_output
+build:clang_format --aspects=@score_bazel_tools_cc//quality:defs.bzl%clang_format_aspect
+build:clang_format --@score_bazel_tools_cc//quality:clang_format_config=//:clang_format_config
+
+build:clang_tidy --config=_bl_stub
+build:clang_tidy --@score_bazel_tools_cc//quality:quality_clang_tidy_config=//:clang_tidy_config
+build:clang_tidy --aspects=@score_bazel_tools_cc//quality:defs.bzl%quality_clang_tidy_aspect
+build:clang_tidy --build_tag_filters="-tidy_suite"
+build:clang_tidy --force_pic
+build:clang_tidy --incompatible_enable_cc_toolchain_resolution
+build:clang_tidy --output_groups=clang_tidy_output
+build:clang_tidy --verbose_failures
diff --git a/.clang-format b/.clang-format
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..92df3942
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.clang-format
@@ -0,0 +1,48 @@
+# For changes please present first the motivation in the TAL round
+BasedOnStyle: Google
+AccessModifierOffset: -2
+AllowAllParametersOfDeclarationOnNextLine: false
+AllowShortBlocksOnASingleLine: Empty
+AllowShortCaseLabelsOnASingleLine: false
+AllowShortEnumsOnASingleLine: false
+# Empty is required in AllowShortFunctionsOnASingleLine over Inline because Inline contradicts with AUTOSAR rule A7-1-7
+# Such rule is no longer existing in MISRA C++:2023, once we are fully migrated to MISRA C++:2023, switching to Inline
+# could be reconsidered
+AllowShortFunctionsOnASingleLine: Empty
+AllowShortIfStatementsOnASingleLine: Never
+AllowShortLambdasOnASingleLine: Empty
+AllowShortLoopsOnASingleLine: false
+BinPackArguments: false
+BinPackParameters: false
+BraceWrapping:
+  AfterCaseLabel: true
+  AfterClass: true
+  AfterControlStatement: Always
+  AfterEnum: true
+  AfterFunction: true
+  AfterNamespace: true
+  AfterObjCDeclaration: true
+  AfterStruct: true
+  AfterUnion: true
+  BeforeCatch: true
+  BeforeElse: true
+  IndentBraces: false
+BreakBeforeBraces: Custom
+ColumnLimit: 120
+DerivePointerAlignment: false
+IncludeBlocks: Preserve
+IncludeCategories:
+  - Regex: '^(<|")(assert|complex|ctype|errno|fenv|float|inttypes|iso646|limits|locale|math|setjmp|signal|stdalign|stdargh|stdatomic|stdbool|stddef|stdint|stdio|stdlib|stdnoreturn|string|tgmath|threads|time|uchar|wchar|wctype)\.h(>|")$'
+    Priority: 2
+  - Regex: '^(<|")(cstdlib|csignal|csetjmp|cstdarg|typeinfo|typeindex|type_traits|bitset|functional|utility|ctime|chrono|cstddef|initializer_list|tuple|any|optional|variant|new|memory|scoped_allocator|memory_resource|climits|cfloat|cstdint|cinttypes|limits|exception|stdexcept|cassert|system_error|cerrno|cctype|cwctype|cstring|cwchar|cuchar|string|string_view|array|vector|deque|list|forward_list|set|map|unordered_set|unordered_map|stack|queue|algorithm|execution|teratorslibrary|iterator|cmath|complex|valarray|random|numeric|ratio|cfenv|iosfwd|ios|istream|ostream|iostream|fstream|sstream|strstream|iomanip|streambuf|cstdio|locale|clocale|codecvt|regex|atomic|thread|mutex|shared_mutex|future|condition_variable|filesystem|ciso646|ccomplex|ctgmath|cstdalign|cstdbool)(>|")$'
+    Priority: 3
+  - Regex: '^(<|").*(>|")$'
+    Priority: 1
+IndentWidth: 4
+KeepEmptyLinesAtTheStartOfBlocks: true
+QualifierAlignment: Left
+CommentPragmas: '^.*A2Lfactory:'
+---
+# Make sure language specific settings are below the generic settings to be compatible to all languages.
+Language: Cpp
+Standard: c++17
diff --git a/.clang-tidy-minimal b/.clang-tidy-minimal
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..038a27c4
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.clang-tidy-minimal
@@ -0,0 +1,60 @@
+---
+Checks: >
+  -*,
+  misc-confusable-identifiers,
+  misc-misleading-bidirectional,
+  misc-misleading-identifier,
+  misc-uniqueptr-reset-release,
+  misc-unused-alias-decls,
+  readability-avoid-nested-conditional-operator,
+  readability-const-return-type,
+  readability-delete-null-pointer,
+  readability-enum-initial-value,
+  readability-identifier-naming,
+  readability-misleading-indentation,
+  readability-redundant-string-init,
+  readability-reference-to-constructed-temporary,
+  readability-simplify-subscript-expr,
+  readability-string-compare,
+  readability-uniqueptr-delete-release,
+
+CheckOptions:
+  - key: misc-uniqueptr-reset-release.IncludeStyle
+    value: "llvm"
+
+  - key: readability-avoid-return-with-void-value.StrictMode
+    value: true
+
+  - key: readability-enum-initial-value.AllowExplicitZeroFirstInitialValue
+    value: true
+  - key: readability-enum-initial-value.AllowExplicitSequentialInitialValues
+    value: true
+
+  - key: readability-identifier-naming.MacroDefinitionCase
+    value: UPPER_CASE
+  - key: readability-identifier-naming.NamespaceCase
+    value: lower_case
+
+  - key: readability-simplify-subscript-expr.Types
+    value: >
+      ::score::futurecpp::basic_string_view;
+      ::score::futurecpp::pmr::basic_string;
+      ::score::futurecpp::pmr::vector;
+      ::score::futurecpp::span;
+      ::score::safecpp::basic_zstring_view;
+      ::std::array;
+      ::std::basic_string_view;
+      ::std::basic_string;
+      ::std::vector;
+      ::std::span
+
+  - key: readability-string-compare.StringLikeClasses
+    value: >
+      ::score::futurecpp::basic_string_view;
+      ::score::futurecpp::pmr::basic_string;
+      ::score::safecpp::basic_zstring_view;
+      ::std::basic_string_view;
+      ::std::basic_string
+
+  - key: readability-uniqueptr-delete-release.PreferResetCall
+    value: true
diff --git a/.github/workflows/format.yml b/.github/workflows/format.yml
index ebe7cb6a..e0e28bea 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/format.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/format.yml
@@ -22,3 +22,18 @@ on:
 jobs:
   formatting-check:
     uses: eclipse-score/cicd-workflows/.github/workflows/format.yml@main
+  clang-format:
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    steps:
+      - name: Checkout Repository
+        uses: actions/checkout@v6
+      - name: Setup Bazel
+        uses: bazel-contrib/setup-bazel@0.18.0
+        with:
+          bazelisk-cache: true
+          disk-cache: ${{ github.job }}
+          repository-cache: true
+          cache-save: ${{ github.event_name == 'push' }}
+      - name: Bazel Build with clang-format
+        run: |
+          bazel build --config clang_format -- //... || true
diff --git a/.github/workflows/lint.yml b/.github/workflows/lint.yml
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..95811f81
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.github/workflows/lint.yml
@@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
+# *******************************************************************************
+# Copyright (c) 2026 Contributors to the Eclipse Foundation
+#
+# See the NOTICE file(s) distributed with this work for additional
+# information regarding copyright ownership.
+#
+# This program and the accompanying materials are made available under the
+# terms of the Apache License Version 2.0 which is available at
+# https://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+#
+# SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0
+# *******************************************************************************
+name: Linter checks
+permissions:
+  contents: read
+on:
+  pull_request:
+    types: [opened, reopened, synchronize]
+  push:
+    branches:
+      - main
+  merge_group:
+    types: [checks_requested]
+jobs:
+  clang-tidy:
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    steps:
+      - name: Checkout Repository
+        uses: actions/checkout@v6
+      - name: Setup Bazel
+        uses: bazel-contrib/setup-bazel@0.18.0
+        with:
+          bazelisk-cache: true
+          disk-cache: ${{ github.job }}
+          repository-cache: true
+          cache-save: ${{ github.event_name == 'push' }}
+      - name: Bazel Build with clang-tidy
+        run: |
+          bazel build --config clang_tidy -- //...
diff --git a/BUILD b/BUILD
index 09ad0cb1..411d7b4d 100644
--- a/BUILD
+++ b/BUILD
@@ -11,6 +11,7 @@
 # SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0
 # *******************************************************************************
 
+load("@score_bazel_tools_cc//quality:defs.bzl", "clang_format_config", "quality_clang_tidy_config")
 load("@score_docs_as_code//:docs.bzl", "docs")
 load("@score_tooling//:defs.bzl", "copyright_checker", "use_format_targets")
 load(":qemu.bzl", "qemu_aarch64")
@@ -38,6 +39,45 @@ copyright_checker(
     visibility = ["//visibility:public"],
 )
 
+qemu_aarch64()
+
 use_format_targets()
 
-qemu_aarch64()
+clang_format_config(
+    name = "clang_format_config",
+    config_file = "//:.clang-format",
+    target_types = [
+        "cc_binary",
+        "cc_library",
+        "cc_test",
+    ],
+    visibility = ["//visibility:public"],
+)
+
+filegroup(
+    name = "clang_tidy_config_files",
+    srcs = [
+        ".clang-tidy-minimal",
+    ],
+    visibility = ["//visibility:public"],
+)
+
+quality_clang_tidy_config(
+    name = "clang_tidy_config",
+    additional_flags = [],
+    clang_tidy_binary = "@llvm_toolchain//:clang-tidy",
+    default_feature = "strict",
+    dependency_attributes = [
+        "deps",
+        "srcs",
+    ],
+    excludes = [],
+    feature_mapping = {
+        "//:.clang-tidy-minimal": "strict",
+    },
+    target_types = [
+        "cc_library",
+    ],
+    unsupported_flags = [],
+    visibility = ["//visibility:public"],
+)
diff --git a/MODULE.bazel b/MODULE.bazel
index 94d7af33..a278ee1d 100644
--- a/MODULE.bazel
+++ b/MODULE.bazel
@@ -79,6 +79,14 @@ bazel_dep(name = "rules_python", version = "1.8.3")
 PYTHON_VERSION = "3.12"
 
 python = use_extension("@rules_python//python/extensions:python.bzl", "python", dev_dependency = True)
+python.single_version_override(
+    python_version = "3.8.20",
+    sha256 = {
+        "aarch64-unknown-linux-gnu": "9d8798f9e79e0fc0f36fcb95bfa28a1023407d51a8ea5944b4da711f1f75f1ed",
+        "x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu": "285e141c36f88b2e9357654c5f77d1f8fb29cc25132698fe35bb30d787f38e87",
+    },
+    urls = ["https://github.com/astral-sh/python-build-standalone/releases/download/20241002/cpython-{python_version}+20241002-{platform}-{build}.tar.gz"],
+)
 python.toolchain(
     #configure_coverage_tool = True,
     is_default = True,
@@ -89,6 +97,18 @@ bazel_dep(name = "aspect_rules_py", version = "1.6.3", dev_dependency = True)
 bazel_dep(name = "buildifier_prebuilt", version = "8.2.0.2", dev_dependency = True)
 bazel_dep(name = "aspect_rules_lint", version = "1.5.3", dev_dependency = True)
 
+bazel_dep(name = "score_bazel_tools_cc", version = "0.1.0")
+bazel_dep(name = "toolchains_llvm", version = "1.4.0")
+
+llvm = use_extension("@toolchains_llvm//toolchain/extensions:llvm.bzl", "llvm")
+llvm.toolchain(
+    llvm_version = "19.1.1",
+    stdlib = {"linux-x86_64": "stdc++"},
+)
+use_repo(llvm, "llvm_toolchain")
+
+register_toolchains("@llvm_toolchain//:all")
+
 deb = use_repo_rule("@download_utils//download/deb:defs.bzl", "download_deb")
 
 deb(