diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..97364983
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -0,0 +1,32 @@
+[tool.mypy]
+# Exclude our copies of external stubs
+exclude = "^jedi/third_party"
+
+show_error_codes = true
+enable_error_code = "ignore-without-code"
+
+# Ensure generics are explicit about what they are (e.g: `List[str]` rather than
+# just `List`)
+disallow_any_generics = true
+
+disallow_subclassing_any = true
+
+# Avoid creating future gotchas emerging from bad typing
+warn_redundant_casts = true
+warn_unused_ignores = true
+warn_return_any = true
+warn_unused_configs = true
+
+warn_unreachable = true
+
+# Require values to be explicitly re-exported; this makes things easier for
+# Flake8 too and avoids accidentally importing thing from the "wrong" place
+# (which helps avoid circular imports)
+implicit_reexport = false
+
+strict_equality = true
+
+[[tool.mypy.overrides]]
+# Various __init__.py files which contain re-exports we want to implicitly make.
+module = ["jedi", "jedi.inference.compiled", "jedi.inference.value", "parso"]
+implicit_reexport = true
diff --git a/setup.cfg b/setup.cfg
index a3648aea..02454b69 100644
--- a/setup.cfg
+++ b/setup.cfg
@@ -31,36 +31,3 @@ exclude =
 
 [pycodestyle]
 max-line-length = 100
-
-
-[mypy]
-# Exclude our copies of external stubs
-exclude = ^jedi/third_party
-
-show_error_codes = true
-enable_error_code = ignore-without-code
-
-# Ensure generics are explicit about what they are (e.g: `List[str]` rather than
-# just `List`)
-disallow_any_generics = True
-
-disallow_subclassing_any = True
-
-# Avoid creating future gotchas emerging from bad typing
-warn_redundant_casts = True
-warn_unused_ignores = True
-warn_return_any = True
-warn_unused_configs = True
-
-warn_unreachable = True
-
-# Require values to be explicitly re-exported; this makes things easier for
-# Flake8 too and avoids accidentally importing thing from the "wrong" place
-# (which helps avoid circular imports)
-implicit_reexport = False
-
-strict_equality = True
-
-[mypy-jedi,jedi.inference.compiled,jedi.inference.value,parso]
-# Various __init__.py files which contain re-exports we want to implicitly make.
-implicit_reexport = True