diff --git a/python/setup.cfg b/python/setup.cfg
index c48dff280a..d21304cadd 100644
--- a/python/setup.cfg
+++ b/python/setup.cfg
@@ -46,6 +46,7 @@ devel =
     urwid >= 2.1.2
     urwid-readline >= 0.13
     Pygments >= 2.9.0
+    sphinx >= 3.4.3
 
 # Provides qom-fuse functionality
 fuse =
diff --git a/python/tests/minreqs.txt b/python/tests/minreqs.txt
index d3d53e0da8..cd2e2a81c3 100644
--- a/python/tests/minreqs.txt
+++ b/python/tests/minreqs.txt
@@ -11,6 +11,15 @@
 # When adding new dependencies, pin the very oldest non-yanked version
 # on PyPI that allows the test suite to pass.
 
+# For some reason, the presence of packaging==14.0 below requires us to
+# also pin setuptools to version 70 or below. Otherwise, the
+# installation of the QEMU package itself fails, failing to find
+# setuptools.
+setuptools<=70
+
+# Dependencies for qapidoc/qapi_domain et al
+sphinx==3.4.3
+
 # Dependencies for the TUI addon (Required for successful linting)
 urwid==2.1.2
 urwid-readline==0.13
@@ -49,3 +58,21 @@ platformdirs==2.2.0
 toml==0.10.0
 tomlkit==0.10.1
 wrapt==1.14.0
+
+# Transitive sphinx dependencies
+Jinja2==2.7
+MarkupSafe==1.1.0
+alabaster==0.7.1
+babel==1.3
+docutils==0.12
+imagesize==0.5.0
+packaging==14.0
+pytz==2011b0
+requests==2.5.0
+snowballstemmer==1.1
+sphinxcontrib-applehelp==1.0.0
+sphinxcontrib-devhelp==1.0.0
+sphinxcontrib-htmlhelp==1.0.0
+sphinxcontrib-jsmath==1.0.0
+sphinxcontrib-qthelp==1.0.0
+sphinxcontrib-serializinghtml==1.0.0
diff --git a/python/tests/qapi-flake8.sh b/python/tests/qapi-flake8.sh
new file mode 100755
index 0000000000..c69f9ea2e0
--- /dev/null
+++ b/python/tests/qapi-flake8.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,6 @@
+#!/bin/sh -e
+# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-or-later
+
+python3 -m flake8 ../scripts/qapi/ \
+        ../docs/sphinx/qapidoc.py \
+        ../docs/sphinx/qapi_domain.py
diff --git a/python/tests/qapi-isort.sh b/python/tests/qapi-isort.sh
new file mode 100755
index 0000000000..78dd947f68
--- /dev/null
+++ b/python/tests/qapi-isort.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,8 @@
+#!/bin/sh -e
+# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-or-later
+
+python3 -m isort --sp . -c ../scripts/qapi/
+# Force isort to recognize "compat" as a local module and not third-party
+python3 -m isort --sp . -c -p compat -p qapidoc_legacy \
+        ../docs/sphinx/qapi_domain.py \
+        ../docs/sphinx/qapidoc.py
diff --git a/python/tests/qapi-mypy.sh b/python/tests/qapi-mypy.sh
new file mode 100755
index 0000000000..363dbaf8c0
--- /dev/null
+++ b/python/tests/qapi-mypy.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,4 @@
+#!/bin/sh -e
+# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-or-later
+
+python3 -m mypy ../scripts/qapi
diff --git a/python/tests/qapi-pylint.sh b/python/tests/qapi-pylint.sh
new file mode 100755
index 0000000000..8767d9d2a2
--- /dev/null
+++ b/python/tests/qapi-pylint.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,8 @@
+#!/bin/sh -e
+# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-or-later
+
+SETUPTOOLS_USE_DISTUTILS=stdlib python3 -m pylint \
+                                --rcfile=../scripts/qapi/pylintrc \
+                                ../scripts/qapi/ \
+                                ../docs/sphinx/qapidoc.py \
+                                ../docs/sphinx/qapi_domain.py
diff --git a/scripts/qapi/pylintrc b/scripts/qapi/pylintrc
index d24eece741..e16283ada3 100644
--- a/scripts/qapi/pylintrc
+++ b/scripts/qapi/pylintrc
@@ -19,6 +19,7 @@ disable=consider-using-f-string,
         too-many-instance-attributes,
         too-many-positional-arguments,
         too-many-statements,
+        unknown-option-value,
         useless-option-value,
 
 [REPORTS]