diff --git a/third_party/styleguide/.pylintrc b/.pylintrc
similarity index 100%
rename from third_party/styleguide/.pylintrc
rename to .pylintrc
diff --git a/ci_lint_runner.py b/ci_lint_runner.py
index a312a58..d069912 100644
--- a/ci_lint_runner.py
+++ b/ci_lint_runner.py
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@
 
 folder_path = sys.argv[1]
 threshold = float(sys.argv[2])
-args = "--rcfile=./third_party/styleguide/.pylintrc"
+args = "--rcfile=.pylintrc"
 
 cmd = "pylint " + folder_path + " " + args
 
diff --git a/third_party/styleguide/README.md b/third_party/styleguide/README.md
deleted file mode 100644
index f24ea74..0000000
--- a/third_party/styleguide/README.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,5 +0,0 @@
-# Google Style Guides
-
-This folder contains the `pylintrc` imported from [google/styleguide](https://github.com/google/styleguide) project
-at state [google/styleguide@ea180f7](https://github.com/google/styleguide/commit/ea180f7259da4ae90ae086c1eefbeb5f440dbea2) as `.pylintrc`,
-which was slightly adapted to our needs.