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 [![codecov](https://codecov.io/gh/spack/spack/branch/develop/graph/badge.svg)](https://codecov.io/gh/spack/spack)
 [![Containers](https://github.com/spack/spack/actions/workflows/build-containers.yml/badge.svg)](https://github.com/spack/spack/actions/workflows/build-containers.yml)
 [![Read the Docs](https://readthedocs.org/projects/spack/badge/?version=latest)](https://spack.readthedocs.io)
+[![Code style: black](https://img.shields.io/badge/code%20style-black-000000.svg)](https://github.com/psf/black)
 [![Slack](https://slack.spack.io/badge.svg)](https://slack.spack.io)
 
 Spack is a multi-platform package manager that builds and installs