diff --git a/.github/check-spdx.yml b/.github/check-spdx.yml
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..597dbde83
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.github/check-spdx.yml
@@ -0,0 +1,14 @@
+DEFAULT:
+  perform_check: yes  # Perform check for all files
+  allowed_licenses:
+    - Apache-2.0
+  license_for_new_files: Apache-2.0  # license to be used when inserting a new copyright notice
+  new_notice_c: |+  # notice for new C, CPP, H, HPP and LD files
+    // SPDX-FileCopyrightText: (c) {years} Tenstorrent AI ULC
+    //
+    // SPDX-License-Identifier: {license}
+
+  new_notice_python: |+  # notice for new python files
+    # SPDX-FileCopyrightText: (c) {years} Tenstorrent AI ULC
+    #
+    # SPDX-License-Identifier: {license}
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diff --git a/.github/workflows/pull-request-workflow.yml b/.github/workflows/pull-request-workflow.yml
index c5fbe7958..d55ff28a2 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/pull-request-workflow.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/pull-request-workflow.yml
@@ -10,4 +10,7 @@ on:
 jobs:
   build-artifacts:
     uses: ./.github/workflows/build-artifacts.yml
+    secrets: inherit
+  spdx:
+    uses: ./.github/workflows/spdx.yml
     secrets: inherit
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diff --git a/.github/workflows/spdx.yml b/.github/workflows/spdx.yml
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..e69de29bb
diff --git a/.pre-commit-config.yaml b/.pre-commit-config.yaml
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..f3a876ec4
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.pre-commit-config.yaml
@@ -0,0 +1,6 @@
+repos:
+  - repo: https://github.com/espressif/check-copyright/
+      rev: v1.0.3
+      hooks:
+        - id: check-copyright
+          args: ['--config', '.github/check-spdx.yaml']
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