diff --git a/.github/CODEOWNERS b/.github/CODEOWNERS
index 03528c5..719c9e5 100644
--- a/.github/CODEOWNERS
+++ b/.github/CODEOWNERS
@@ -3,4 +3,4 @@
 * @Financial-Times/cp-reliability
 
 # Allow the next-team to approve PRs that only modify package files
-**/package*.json @next-team @Financial-Times/cp-reliability
+**/package*.json @next-team @Financial-Times/cp-reliability @ft-dependency-auto-merger