diff --git a/.clang-format b/.clang-format
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2711cbb0b40fd231639931a1f9838aecbecdc7d2
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.clang-format
@@ -0,0 +1,167 @@
+---
+Language:        Cpp
+AccessModifierOffset: -3
+AlignAfterOpenBracket: Align
+AlignConsecutiveMacros: true
+AlignConsecutiveAssignments: false
+AlignConsecutiveDeclarations: false
+AlignEscapedNewlines: Left
+AlignOperands:   true
+AlignTrailingComments: true
+AllowAllArgumentsOnNextLine: true
+AllowAllConstructorInitializersOnNextLine: true
+AllowAllParametersOfDeclarationOnNextLine: true
+AllowShortBlocksOnASingleLine: Never
+AllowShortCaseLabelsOnASingleLine: false
+AllowShortFunctionsOnASingleLine: All
+AllowShortLambdasOnASingleLine: All
+AllowShortIfStatementsOnASingleLine: Never
+AllowShortLoopsOnASingleLine: true
+AlwaysBreakAfterDefinitionReturnType: None
+AlwaysBreakAfterReturnType: None
+AlwaysBreakBeforeMultilineStrings: true
+AlwaysBreakTemplateDeclarations: Yes
+BinPackArguments: true
+BinPackParameters: true
+BraceWrapping:
+  AfterCaseLabel:  false
+  AfterClass:      false
+  AfterControlStatement: false
+  AfterEnum:       false
+  AfterFunction:   false
+  AfterNamespace:  false
+  AfterObjCDeclaration: false
+  AfterStruct:     false
+  AfterUnion:      false
+  AfterExternBlock: false
+  BeforeCatch:     false
+  BeforeElse:      false
+  IndentBraces:    false
+  SplitEmptyFunction: true
+  SplitEmptyRecord: true
+  SplitEmptyNamespace: true
+BreakBeforeBinaryOperators: None
+BreakBeforeBraces: Attach
+BreakBeforeInheritanceComma: false
+BreakInheritanceList: BeforeColon
+BreakBeforeTernaryOperators: true
+BreakConstructorInitializersBeforeComma: false
+BreakConstructorInitializers: BeforeColon
+BreakAfterJavaFieldAnnotations: false
+BreakStringLiterals: true
+ColumnLimit:     80
+CommentPragmas:  '^ IWYU pragma:'
+CompactNamespaces: false
+ConstructorInitializerAllOnOneLineOrOnePerLine: true
+ConstructorInitializerIndentWidth: 4
+ContinuationIndentWidth: 4
+Cpp11BracedListStyle: true
+DeriveLineEnding: true
+DerivePointerAlignment: true
+DisableFormat:   false
+ExperimentalAutoDetectBinPacking: false
+FixNamespaceComments: true
+ForEachMacros:
+  - foreach
+  - Q_FOREACH
+  - BOOST_FOREACH
+IncludeBlocks:   Regroup
+IncludeCategories:
+  - Regex:           '^<ext/.*\.h>'
+    Priority:        2
+    SortPriority:    0
+  - Regex:           '^<.*\.h>'
+    Priority:        1
+    SortPriority:    0
+  - Regex:           '^<.*'
+    Priority:        2
+    SortPriority:    0
+  - Regex:           '.*'
+    Priority:        3
+    SortPriority:    0
+IncludeIsMainRegex: '([-_](test|unittest))?$'
+IncludeIsMainSourceRegex: ''
+IndentCaseLabels: true
+IndentGotoLabels: true
+IndentPPDirectives: None
+IndentWidth:     4
+IndentWrappedFunctionNames: false
+JavaScriptQuotes: Leave
+JavaScriptWrapImports: true
+KeepEmptyLinesAtTheStartOfBlocks: false
+MacroBlockBegin: ''
+MacroBlockEnd:   ''
+MaxEmptyLinesToKeep: 1
+NamespaceIndentation: None
+ObjCBinPackProtocolList: Never
+ObjCBlockIndentWidth: 2
+ObjCSpaceAfterProperty: false
+ObjCSpaceBeforeProtocolList: true
+PenaltyBreakAssignment: 2
+PenaltyBreakBeforeFirstCallParameter: 1
+PenaltyBreakComment: 300
+PenaltyBreakFirstLessLess: 120
+PenaltyBreakString: 1000
+PenaltyBreakTemplateDeclaration: 10
+PenaltyExcessCharacter: 1000000
+PenaltyReturnTypeOnItsOwnLine: 200
+PointerAlignment: Left
+RawStringFormats:
+  - Language:        Cpp
+    Delimiters:
+      - cc
+      - CC
+      - cpp
+      - Cpp
+      - CPP
+      - 'c++'
+      - 'C++'
+    CanonicalDelimiter: ''
+    BasedOnStyle:    google
+  - Language:        TextProto
+    Delimiters:
+      - pb
+      - PB
+      - proto
+      - PROTO
+    EnclosingFunctions:
+      - EqualsProto
+      - EquivToProto
+      - PARSE_PARTIAL_TEXT_PROTO
+      - PARSE_TEST_PROTO
+      - PARSE_TEXT_PROTO
+      - ParseTextOrDie
+      - ParseTextProtoOrDie
+    CanonicalDelimiter: ''
+    BasedOnStyle:    google
+ReflowComments:  true
+SortIncludes:    true
+SortUsingDeclarations: true
+SpaceAfterCStyleCast: false
+SpaceAfterLogicalNot: false
+SpaceAfterTemplateKeyword: true
+SpaceBeforeAssignmentOperators: true
+SpaceBeforeCpp11BracedList: false
+SpaceBeforeCtorInitializerColon: true
+SpaceBeforeInheritanceColon: true
+SpaceBeforeParens: ControlStatements
+SpaceBeforeRangeBasedForLoopColon: true
+SpaceInEmptyBlock: false
+SpaceInEmptyParentheses: false
+SpacesBeforeTrailingComments: 2
+SpacesInAngles:  false
+SpacesInConditionalStatement: false
+SpacesInContainerLiterals: true
+SpacesInCStyleCastParentheses: false
+SpacesInParentheses: false
+SpacesInSquareBrackets: false
+SpaceBeforeSquareBrackets: false
+Standard:        Auto
+StatementMacros:
+  - Q_UNUSED
+  - QT_REQUIRE_VERSION
+TabWidth:        4
+UseCRLF:         false
+UseTab:          Never
+...
+
diff --git a/.github/workflows/awesome_workflow.yml b/.github/workflows/awesome_workflow.yml
index 9cff1c48d8fe8a9815ee3f682bd0a68928bbc6ca..78ea62c7bfb3a649cf2d8414a9bd07fd8133242f 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/awesome_workflow.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/awesome_workflow.yml
@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ jobs:
       - name: requirements
         run: | 
           sudo apt -qq -y update
-          sudo apt -qq install clang-tidy-10
+          sudo apt -qq install clang-tidy-10 clang-format-10
         # checks are passing with less errors when used with this version. 
         # The default installs v6.0 which did not work out well in my tests
       - name: Setup Git Specs
@@ -44,7 +44,7 @@ jobs:
               git "mv" "${fname}" ${new_fname}
             fi
           done
-          git commit -am "formatting filenames $GITHUB_SHA" ||  true
+          git commit -am "formatting filenames ${GITHUB_SHA::8}" ||  true
 
       - name: Update DIRECTORY.md
         shell: python
@@ -124,15 +124,9 @@ jobs:
 
           subprocess.run(["clang-tidy-10", "--fix", "-p=build", "--extra-arg=-std=c++11", *cpp_files, "--"], 
               check=True, text=True, stderr=subprocess.STDOUT)
-          # for cpp_file in cpp_files:
-          #   subprocess.run(["clang-tidy-10", "--fix", "-p=build", cpp_file, "--"], 
-          #     check=True, text=True, stderr=subprocess.STDOUT)
 
-          # print("g++:")
-          # compile_exts = tuple(".c .c++ .cc .cpp .cu .cxx".split())
-          # compile_files = [file for file in cpp_files if file.lower().endswith(compile_exts)]
-          # for cpp_file in cpp_files:
-          #   subprocess.run(["g++", cpp_file], check=True, text=True)
+          subprocess.run(["clang-format-10", "-i", "-style=file", *cpp_files], 
+              check=True, text=True, stderr=subprocess.STDOUT)
 
           upper_files = [file for file in cpp_files if file != file.lower()]
           if upper_files:
@@ -155,7 +149,7 @@ jobs:
       - name: Commit and push changes
         run: |
           git diff DIRECTORY.md
-          git commit -am "clang-tidy fixes for $GITHUB_SHA" ||  true
+          git commit -am "clang-format and clang-tidy fixes for ${GITHUB_SHA::8}" ||  true
           git push --force origin HEAD:$GITHUB_REF || true
 
   build: