diff --git a/components/core/.clang-format b/components/core/.clang-format
index c282164b8..ff65adbae 100644
--- a/components/core/.clang-format
+++ b/components/core/.clang-format
@@ -1,75 +1,5 @@
-# yamllint disable-line rule:document-start
----
-ColumnLimit: 100
-IndentWidth: 4
-# yamllint disable-line rule:document-start
----
-Language: "Cpp"
-AccessModifierOffset: -4
-AlignAfterOpenBracket: "BlockIndent"
-AlignArrayOfStructures: "None"
-AlignConsecutiveAssignments: "None"
-AlignConsecutiveBitFields: "None"
-AlignConsecutiveDeclarations: "None"
-AlignConsecutiveMacros: "None"
-AlignEscapedNewlines: "DontAlign"
-AlignOperands: "Align"
-AlignTrailingComments:
-  Kind: "Never"
-AllowAllArgumentsOnNextLine: false
-AllowAllParametersOfDeclarationOnNextLine: false
-AllowBreakBeforeNoexceptSpecifier: "OnlyWithParen"
-AllowShortBlocksOnASingleLine: "Always"
-AllowShortCaseLabelsOnASingleLine: false
-AllowShortCompoundRequirementOnASingleLine: true
-AllowShortEnumsOnASingleLine: false
-AllowShortFunctionsOnASingleLine: "Inline"
-AllowShortIfStatementsOnASingleLine: "Never"
-AllowShortLambdasOnASingleLine: "All"
-AllowShortLoopsOnASingleLine: false
-AlwaysBreakAfterReturnType: "None"
-AlwaysBreakBeforeMultilineStrings: false
-AlwaysBreakTemplateDeclarations: "Yes"
-BinPackArguments: false
-BinPackParameters: false
-BitFieldColonSpacing: "Both"
-BraceWrapping:
-  AfterCaseLabel: false
-  AfterClass: false
-  AfterControlStatement: "MultiLine"
-  AfterEnum: false
-  AfterFunction: false
-  AfterNamespace: false
-  AfterExternBlock: false
-  AfterStruct: false
-  AfterUnion: false
-  BeforeCatch: false
-  BeforeElse: false
-  BeforeLambdaBody: false
-  BeforeWhile: false
-  IndentBraces: false
-  SplitEmptyFunction: false
-  SplitEmptyNamespace: false
-  SplitEmptyRecord: false
-BreakAfterAttributes: "Never"
-BreakBeforeBinaryOperators: "All"
-BreakBeforeBraces: "Custom"
-BreakBeforeConceptDeclarations: "Always"
-BreakBeforeInlineASMColon: "OnlyMultiline"
-BreakBeforeTernaryOperators: true
-BreakConstructorInitializers: "BeforeColon"
-BreakInheritanceList: "BeforeColon"
-BreakStringLiterals: true
-CompactNamespaces: true
-ConstructorInitializerIndentWidth: 8
-ContinuationIndentWidth: 8
-Cpp11BracedListStyle: true
-DerivePointerAlignment: false
-DisableFormat: false
-EmptyLineAfterAccessModifier: "Never"
-EmptyLineBeforeAccessModifier: "LogicalBlock"
-FixNamespaceComments: true
-IncludeBlocks: "Regroup"
+BasedOnStyle: "InheritParentConfig"
+
 IncludeCategories:
   # NOTE: A header is grouped by first matching regex
   # Library headers. Update when adding new libraries.
@@ -86,80 +16,3 @@ IncludeCategories:
   # Project headers
   - Regex: "^\".+\""
     Priority: 4
-IndentAccessModifiers: false
-IndentCaseBlocks: false
-IndentCaseLabels: true
-IndentExternBlock: "Indent"
-IndentGotoLabels: false
-IndentPPDirectives: "BeforeHash"
-IndentRequiresClause: false
-IndentWrappedFunctionNames: false
-InsertBraces: true
-InsertNewlineAtEOF: true
-IntegerLiteralSeparator:
-  Binary: 4
-  BinaryMinDigits: 4
-  Decimal: 3
-  DecimalMinDigits: 5
-  Hex: 4
-  HexMinDigits: 4
-KeepEmptyLinesAtTheStartOfBlocks: false
-LambdaBodyIndentation: "Signature"
-LineEnding: "LF"
-MaxEmptyLinesToKeep: 1
-NamespaceIndentation: "None"
-PPIndentWidth: -1
-PackConstructorInitializers: "CurrentLine"
-PenaltyBreakOpenParenthesis: 25
-PenaltyBreakBeforeFirstCallParameter: 25
-PenaltyReturnTypeOnItsOwnLine: 100
-PointerAlignment: "Left"
-QualifierAlignment: "Custom"
-QualifierOrder:
-  - "static"
-  - "friend"
-  - "inline"
-  # constexpr west as explained in https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z6s6bacI424
-  - "constexpr"
-  - "type"
-  - "const"
-  - "volatile"
-ReferenceAlignment: "Pointer"
-ReflowComments: true
-RemoveBracesLLVM: false
-RemoveSemicolon: true
-RequiresClausePosition: "OwnLine"
-RequiresExpressionIndentation: "OuterScope"
-SeparateDefinitionBlocks: "Always"
-ShortNamespaceLines: 0
-SortIncludes: "CaseInsensitive"
-SortUsingDeclarations: "Lexicographic"
-SpaceAfterCStyleCast: false
-SpaceAfterLogicalNot: false
-SpaceAfterTemplateKeyword: true
-SpaceAroundPointerQualifiers: "Default"
-SpaceBeforeAssignmentOperators: true
-SpaceBeforeCaseColon: false
-SpaceBeforeCpp11BracedList: false
-SpaceBeforeCtorInitializerColon: true
-SpaceBeforeInheritanceColon: true
-SpaceBeforeParens: "ControlStatements"
-SpaceBeforeRangeBasedForLoopColon: true
-SpaceBeforeSquareBrackets: false
-SpaceInEmptyBlock: false
-SpacesBeforeTrailingComments: 2
-SpacesInAngles: false
-SpacesInContainerLiterals: false
-SpacesInLineCommentPrefix:
-  Minimum: 1
-  Maximum: -1
-SpacesInParens: "Custom"
-SpacesInParensOptions:
-  InConditionalStatements: false
-  InCStyleCasts: false
-  InEmptyParentheses: false
-  Other: false
-SpacesInSquareBrackets: false
-Standard: "Latest"
-TabWidth: 4
-UseTab: "Never"
diff --git a/lint-tasks.yml b/lint-tasks.yml
index a3c86cc80..d1da57771 100644
--- a/lint-tasks.yml
+++ b/lint-tasks.yml
@@ -21,6 +21,8 @@ tasks:
 
   cpp-check:
     sources: &cpp_source_files
+      - "{{.ROOT_DIR}}/.clang-format"
+      - "{{.ROOT_DIR}}/.clang-tidy"
       - "{{.TASKFILE}}"
       - ".clang-format"
       - "src/**/*.cpp"
@@ -119,7 +121,7 @@ tasks:
     requires:
       vars: ["FLAGS"]
     dir: "components/core"
-    deps: ["venv"]
+    deps: ["cpp-lint-configs", "venv"]
     cmds:
       - |-
         . "{{.G_LINT_VENV_DIR}}/bin/activate"
@@ -129,6 +131,10 @@ tasks:
           -print0 | \
             xargs -0 clang-format {{.FLAGS}} -Werror
 
+  cpp-lint-configs:
+    internal: true
+    cmd: "{{.ROOT_DIR}}/tools/yscope-dev-utils/lint-configs/symlink-cpp-lint-configs.sh"
+
   js:
     internal: true
     requires:
diff --git a/tools/scripts/deps-download/init.sh b/tools/scripts/deps-download/init.sh
index 57fcd4594..fa626cc82 100755
--- a/tools/scripts/deps-download/init.sh
+++ b/tools/scripts/deps-download/init.sh
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ project_root_dir="$script_dir/../../../"
 download_dep_script="$script_dir/download-dep.py"
 
 python3 "${download_dep_script}" \
-    https://github.com/y-scope/yscope-dev-utils/archive/ff1611e6.zip \
-    yscope-dev-utils-ff1611e6f9b116da27dc7f8f71797829c22d0b1a \
+    https://github.com/y-scope/yscope-dev-utils/archive/2caa3dcf.zip \
+    yscope-dev-utils-2caa3dcfbbccff052d179e643a509d8ad05bc217 \
     "${project_root_dir}/tools/yscope-dev-utils" \
     --extract
diff --git a/tools/yscope-dev-utils b/tools/yscope-dev-utils
index ff1611e6f..2caa3dcfb 160000
--- a/tools/yscope-dev-utils
+++ b/tools/yscope-dev-utils
@@ -1 +1 @@
-Subproject commit ff1611e6f9b116da27dc7f8f71797829c22d0b1a
+Subproject commit 2caa3dcfbbccff052d179e643a509d8ad05bc217