diff --git a/.jscs.json b/.jscs.json
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..6540c8f39
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.jscs.json
@@ -0,0 +1,23 @@
+{
+    "requireCurlyBraces": [ "if", "else", "for", "while", "do" ],
+    "requireSpaceAfterKeywords": [ "if", "else", "for", "while", "do", "switch", "return" ],
+    "requireSpacesInFunctionExpression": {
+        "beforeOpeningCurlyBrace": true
+    },
+    "disallowSpacesInFunctionExpression": {
+        "beforeOpeningRoundBrace": true
+    },
+    "requireMultipleVarDecl": true,
+    "requireSpacesInsideObjectBrackets": "all",
+    "requireSpacesInsideArrayBrackets": "all",
+    "disallowLeftStickedOperators": [ "?", "-", "/", "*", "=", "==", "===", "!=", "!==", ">", ">=", "<", "<=" ],
+    "disallowRightStickedOperators": [ "?", "/", "*", ":", "=", "==", "===", "!=", "!==", ">", ">=", "<", "<="],
+    "requireRightStickedOperators": [ "!" ],
+    "requireLeftStickedOperators": [ "," ],
+    "disallowKeywords": [ "with" ],
+    "disallowMultipleLineBreaks": true,
+    "disallowKeywordsOnNewLine": [ "else" ],
+    "requireLineFeedAtFileEnd": true,
+
+    "excludeFiles": [ "src/intro.js", "src/outro.js" ]
+}
diff --git a/Gruntfile.js b/Gruntfile.js
index 1f06b4e34..d9e94003b 100644
--- a/Gruntfile.js
+++ b/Gruntfile.js
@@ -2,14 +2,15 @@ module.exports = function( grunt ) {
 
 	"use strict";
 
+	function readOptionalJSON( filepath ) {
+		var data = {};
+		try {
+			data = grunt.file.readJSON( filepath );
+		} catch(e) {}
+		return data;
+	}
+
 	var gzip = require( "gzip-js" ),
-		readOptionalJSON = function( filepath ) {
-			var data = {};
-			try {
-				data = grunt.file.readJSON( filepath );
-			} catch(e) {}
-			return data;
-		},
 		srcHintOptions = readOptionalJSON( "src/.jshintrc" );
 
 	// The concatenated file won't pass onevar
@@ -48,19 +49,24 @@ module.exports = function( grunt ) {
 			pkg: {
 				src: [ "package.json" ]
 			},
+
+			jscs: {
+				src: [ ".jscs.json" ]
+			},
+
 			bower: {
 				src: [ "bower.json" ]
 			}
 		},
 		jshint: {
 			src: {
-				src: [ "src/**/*.js" ],
+				src: "src/**/*.js",
 				options: {
 					jshintrc: "src/.jshintrc"
 				}
 			},
 			dist: {
-				src: [ "dist/jquery.js" ],
+				src: "dist/jquery.js",
 				options: srcHintOptions
 			},
 			grunt: {
@@ -70,12 +76,15 @@ module.exports = function( grunt ) {
 				}
 			},
 			tests: {
-				src: [ "test/**/*.js" ],
+				src: "test/**/*.js",
 				options: {
 					jshintrc: "test/.jshintrc"
 				}
 			}
 		},
+		jscs: {
+			src: "src/**/*.js"
+		},
 		testswarm: {
 			tests: "ajax attributes callbacks core css data deferred dimensions effects event manipulation offset queue selector serialize support traversing Sizzle".split(" ")
 		},
@@ -135,12 +144,13 @@ module.exports = function( grunt ) {
 	grunt.loadNpmTasks( "grunt-contrib-jshint" );
 	grunt.loadNpmTasks( "grunt-contrib-uglify" );
 	grunt.loadNpmTasks( "grunt-jsonlint" );
+	grunt.loadNpmTasks( "grunt-jscs-checker" );
 
 	// Integrate jQuery specific tasks
 	grunt.loadTasks( "build/tasks" );
 
 	// Short list as a high frequency watch task
-	grunt.registerTask( "dev", [ "build:*:*", "jshint" ] );
+	grunt.registerTask( "dev", [ "build:*:*", "jshint", "jscs" ] );
 
 	// Default grunt
 	grunt.registerTask( "default", [ "jsonlint", "dev", "pre-uglify", "uglify", "post-uglify", "dist:*", "compare_size" ] );
diff --git a/package.json b/package.json
index b172dece6..a4e442530 100644
--- a/package.json
+++ b/package.json
@@ -1,3 +1,4 @@
+
 {
   "name": "jquery",
   "title": "jQuery",
@@ -35,6 +36,7 @@
     "grunt-contrib-uglify": "~0.2.4",
     "grunt-contrib-watch": "~0.5.3",
     "grunt-git-authors": "~1.2.0",
+    "grunt-jscs-checker": "~0.2.3",
     "grunt-jsonlint": "~1.0.1",
     "gzip-js": "0.3.2",
     "testswarm": "~1.1.0",