diff --git a/ci/run-style-check.sh b/ci/run-style-check.sh
index 76dd37d22b..6cd4b1d934 100755
--- a/ci/run-style-check.sh
+++ b/ci/run-style-check.sh
@@ -5,4 +5,21 @@
 
 baseCommit=$1
 
-git clang-format --style file --diff --extensions c,h "$baseCommit"
+# Remove optional braces of control statements (if, else, for, and while)
+# according to the LLVM coding style. This avoids braces on simple
+# single-statement bodies of statements but keeps braces if one side of
+# if/else if/.../else cascade has multi-statement body.
+#
+# As this rule comes with a warning [1], we want to experiment with it
+# before adding it in-tree. since the CI job for the style check is allowed
+# to fail, appending the rule here allows us to validate its efficacy.
+# While also ensuring that end-users are not affected directly.
+#
+# [1]: https://clang.llvm.org/docs/ClangFormatStyleOptions.html#removebracesllvm
+{
+	cat .clang-format
+	echo "RemoveBracesLLVM: true"
+} >/tmp/clang-format-rules
+
+git clang-format --style=file:/tmp/clang-format-rules \
+	--diff --extensions c,h "$baseCommit"