diff --git a/.github/workflows/validate-pr.yml b/.github/workflows/validate-pr.yml
index 134c4049..1876a472 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/validate-pr.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/validate-pr.yml
@@ -288,7 +288,7 @@ jobs:
         run: echo "success='false'" >> $GITHUB_OUTPUT
 
   premerge:
-    needs: [lint, test, build]
+    needs: [checks, lint, test, build]
     if: always()
     runs-on: ubuntu-latest
 
@@ -299,9 +299,9 @@ jobs:
           echo "### :rocket: Premerge checks succeeded" >> $GITHUB_STEP_SUMMARY
         env:
           LINT_RESULT: ${{ needs.lint.outputs.success }}
-          LINT_AFFECTED_RESULT: ${{ needs.lint-affected.outputs.success || 'true' }}
+          LINT_AFFECTED_RESULT: ${{ needs.lint-affected.outputs.success || needs.checks.outputs.projects != '[]' }}
           TEST_RESULT: ${{ needs.test.outputs.success }}
-          TEST_AFFECTED_RESULT: ${{ needs.test-affected.outputs.success || 'true' }}
+          TEST_AFFECTED_RESULT: ${{ needs.test-affected.outputs.success || needs.checks.outputs.projects != '[]' }}
           BUILD_RESULT: ${{ needs.build.outputs.success }}
-          BUILD_AFFECTED_RESULT: ${{ needs.build-affected.outputs.success || 'true' }}
-          BUILD_AFFECTED_STORYBOOK_RESULT: ${{ needs.build-affected-storybook.outputs.success || 'true' }}
+          BUILD_AFFECTED_RESULT: ${{ needs.build-affected.outputs.success || needs.checks.outputs.projects-build != '[]' }}
+          BUILD_AFFECTED_STORYBOOK_RESULT: ${{ needs.build-affected-storybook.outputs.success || needs.checks.outputs.projects-build-storybook != '[]' }}
diff --git a/.ncurc.json b/.ncurc.json
index 01b8262d..1837dca2 100644
--- a/.ncurc.json
+++ b/.ncurc.json
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
 {
-  "reject": ["marked", "eslint"],
+  "reject": ["marked", "eslint", "prettier"],
   "timeout": 120000
 }
diff --git a/package.json b/package.json
index b7f7249f..f57868a4 100644
--- a/package.json
+++ b/package.json
@@ -295,7 +295,7 @@
     "postcss-import": "16.1.0",
     "postcss-preset-env": "9.5.14",
     "postcss-url": "10.1.3",
-    "prettier": "3.3.2",
+    "prettier": "3.3.0",
     "prettier-stylelint": "0.4.2",
     "protobufjs": "7.3.0",
     "readline-sync": "1.4.10",
diff --git a/yarn.lock b/yarn.lock
index 711d80b6..27af3221 100644
--- a/yarn.lock
+++ b/yarn.lock
@@ -20201,7 +20201,7 @@ preserve@^0.2.0:
   resolved "https://registry.yarnpkg.com/preserve/-/preserve-0.2.0.tgz#815ed1f6ebc65926f865b310c0713bcb3315ce4b"
   integrity sha512-s/46sYeylUfHNjI+sA/78FAHlmIuKqI9wNnzEOGehAlUUYeObv5C2mOinXBjyUyWmJ2SfcS2/ydApH4hTF4WXQ==
 
-"prettier-fallback@npm:prettier@^3", prettier@3.3.2, prettier@^3.1.1:
+"prettier-fallback@npm:prettier@^3", prettier@^3.1.1:
   name prettier-fallback
   version "3.3.2"
   resolved "https://registry.yarnpkg.com/prettier/-/prettier-3.3.2.tgz#03ff86dc7c835f2d2559ee76876a3914cec4a90a"
@@ -20234,6 +20234,11 @@ prettier-stylelint@0.4.2:
     tempy "^0.2.1"
     update-notifier "^2.2.0"
 
+prettier@3.3.0:
+  version "3.3.0"
+  resolved "https://registry.yarnpkg.com/prettier/-/prettier-3.3.0.tgz#d173ea0524a691d4c0b1181752f2b46724328cdf"
+  integrity sha512-J9odKxERhCQ10OC2yb93583f6UnYutOeiV5i0zEDS7UGTdUt0u+y8erxl3lBKvwo/JHyyoEdXjwp4dke9oyZ/g==
+
 prettier@^1.7.0:
   version "1.19.1"
   resolved "https://registry.yarnpkg.com/prettier/-/prettier-1.19.1.tgz#f7d7f5ff8a9cd872a7be4ca142095956a60797cb"