diff --git a/.github/workflows/Docker_Image.yml b/.github/workflows/Docker_Image.yml
index 1021399e..24cc8a2c 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/Docker_Image.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/Docker_Image.yml
@@ -4,12 +4,6 @@ on:
   schedule:
     - cron: '0 0 * * *'
   workflow_dispatch:
-  release:
-    types:
-      - published
-    repository:
-      - 'SiEPIC/SiEPIC_EBeam_PDK'
-  
   push:
     branches: [ "master" ]
     paths:
diff --git a/.pre-commit-config.yaml b/.pre-commit-config.yaml
index f50469d0..2e0907ab 100644
--- a/.pre-commit-config.yaml
+++ b/.pre-commit-config.yaml
@@ -2,7 +2,32 @@ repos:
   - repo: https://github.com/PyCQA/bandit #checks for security vulnerabilities
     rev: 1.7.5
     hooks:
-      - id: bandit #
+      - id: bandit
         args: [--exit-zero]
         # ignore all tests, not just tests data
         exclude: ^tests/
+
+  - repo: https://github.com/pre-commit/pre-commit-hooks
+    rev: v3.4.0
+    hooks:
+      - id: trailing-whitespace
+      - id: end-of-file-fixer
+      - id: check-yaml
+
+  - repo: https://github.com/charliermarsh/ruff-pre-commit #run ruff's linter and formatter
+    rev: "6c0ceaccffa1ebb1db1ea1a6d7289b50d29bfce2"
+    hooks:
+      - id: ruff
+        args: [ --fix, --exit-non-zero-on-fix ]
+
+  - repo: https://github.com/psf/black
+    rev: 1b028cc9d99c2c2e82f9b727742539173a92a373
+    hooks:
+      - id: black #python code formatter
+
+  - repo: https://github.com/codespell-project/codespell #fix common misspellings in text files
+    rev: 38bc4a97f6e22827e86526148efa38f1044a97f8
+    hooks:
+      - id: codespell
+        additional_dependencies:
+          - tomli