diff --git a/.github/workflows/ruff.yml b/.github/workflows/ruff.yml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..f95bda5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.github/workflows/ruff.yml
@@ -0,0 +1,8 @@
+name: Ruff action
+on: [push, pull_request]
+jobs:
+  ruff:
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    steps:
+      - uses: actions/checkout@v6
+      - uses: astral-sh/ruff-action@v4.0.0
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diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index bf6da0c..549dfe8 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -18,6 +18,16 @@ This will create a virtual environment in the `.venv` folder with all the requir
 source .venv/bin/activate
 ```
 
+### For development
+
+For developers who want to make changes to the code, please install the `pre-commit` hooks for code formatting and linting. You can do this by running:
+
+```sh
+pre-commit install
+```
+
+After this, every time you make a commit, the code will be automatically formatted and linted according to the rules defined in the `.pre-commit-config.yaml` file.
+
 <!-- start-spatio-temporal -->
 ## Spatio Temporal Model Architecture
 
diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index 9261094..e83d4b3 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -36,3 +36,6 @@ docs = [
 
 [tool.setuptools]
 packages = ["climanet"]
+
+[tool.ruff]
+exclude = ["notebooks"]