diff --git a/.pre-commit-config.yaml b/.pre-commit-config.yaml
index c51680f0..60750130 100644
--- a/.pre-commit-config.yaml
+++ b/.pre-commit-config.yaml
@@ -25,6 +25,7 @@ repos:
       - id: destroyed-symlinks
       - id: detect-private-key
       - id: end-of-file-fixer
+        exclude: docs/LICENSE.txt
       - id: mixed-line-ending
       - id: no-commit-to-branch # protects `main` by default
       - id: trailing-whitespace
@@ -54,6 +55,7 @@ repos:
     rev: v0.20.0
     hooks:
       - id: yamlfmt
+        entry: python scripts/yamlfmt.py
         types_or: [yaml]
         exclude: ".*/vcr_cassettes/.*\\.yaml"
 
diff --git a/scripts/yamlfmt.py b/scripts/yamlfmt.py
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..56886adf
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/yamlfmt.py
@@ -0,0 +1,21 @@
+"""Helper script that automatically skips the yamlfmt pre-commit hook on Windows.
+
+This is not intended to be called directly.  It is configured to be called by
+pre-commit via the configuration in .pre-commit-config.yml for the yamlfmt hook.
+
+Due to https://github.com/google/yamlfmt/issues/263, comments in yaml files are
+not handled properly under Windows, so any Windows user that causes yamlfmt to
+format yaml files will cause CI build failure because we build under Linux, and
+the resulting format will differ, causing file changes during the pre-commit
+step, causing build failure.
+
+Therefore, this script avoids calling yamlfmt (via pre-commit) when running on
+Windows.
+"""
+
+import platform
+import subprocess
+import sys
+
+if platform.system() != "Windows":
+    sys.exit(subprocess.call(["yamlfmt", *sys.argv[1:]]))