diff --git a/cc/config/tidy.go b/cc/config/tidy.go
index e5bea4b..4ac9e58 100644
--- a/cc/config/tidy.go
+++ b/cc/config/tidy.go
@@ -21,28 +21,23 @@
 
 func init() {
 	// Most Android source files are not clang-tidy clean yet.
-	// Default global tidy checks must exclude all checks that
-	// have found too many false positives.
+	// Global tidy checks include only google*, performance*,
+	// and misc-macro-parentheses, but not google-readability*
+	// or google-runtime-references.
 	pctx.VariableFunc("TidyDefaultGlobalChecks", func(ctx android.PackageVarContext) string {
 		if override := ctx.Config().Getenv("DEFAULT_GLOBAL_TIDY_CHECKS"); override != "" {
 			return override
 		}
 		return strings.Join([]string{
-			"*",
-			"-altera-*",
+			"-*",
+			"bugprone*",
+			"clang-diagnostic-unused-command-line-argument",
+			"google*",
+			"misc-macro-parentheses",
+			"performance*",
 			"-bugprone-narrowing-conversions",
-			"-cppcoreguidelines-*",
-			"-fuchsia-*",
-			"-google-readability-*",
+			"-google-readability*",
 			"-google-runtime-references",
-			"-hicpp-*",
-			"-llvm-*",
-			"-llvmlibc-*",
-			"-misc-no-recursion",
-			"-misc-non-private-member-variables-in-classes",
-			"-misc-unused-parameters",
-			"-modernize-*",
-			"-readability-*",
 		}, ",")
 	})