diff --git a/.github/workflows/buildAndTest.yml b/.github/workflows/buildAndTest.yml
index 711f19a49e..99903f794b 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/buildAndTest.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/buildAndTest.yml
@@ -8,13 +8,6 @@ on:
     types: [assigned, opened, synchronize, reopened]
   workflow_dispatch:
 
-defaults:
-  run:
-    # This is already the default, except when running inside another Docker
-    # image, which is the case here. So set it up globally to avoid
-    # repeating elsewhere.
-    shell: bash
-
 env:
   # Run apt package manager in the CI in non-interactive mode.
   # Otherwise, on Ubuntu 20.04 the installation of tzdata asking question
@@ -53,11 +46,8 @@ jobs:
         run: |
           pip install cmake numpy psutil pybind11 rich pkginfo lit PyYAML
 
-      - name: Install Ninja
-        run: sudo apt-get install -y ninja-build
-
-      - name: Install lld and clang (for aiecc)
-        run: sudo apt-get install -y clang lld
+      - name: Install packages
+        run: sudo apt-get install -y ninja-build clang lld
 
       - name: Get MLIR
         id: mlir-wheels
@@ -68,7 +58,6 @@ jobs:
           echo "MLIR_DIR=$PWD/mlir" | tee -a $GITHUB_OUTPUT
 
       - name: Ccache for C++ compilation
-        # https://github.com/hendrikmuhs/ccache-action/releases/tag/v1.2.9
         uses: hendrikmuhs/ccache-action@ca3acd2731eef11f1572ccb126356c2f9298d35e
         with:
           # Since there are now several compilation jobs running in parallel,
@@ -139,7 +128,9 @@ jobs:
           ninja check-tutorials
           ninja check-reference-designs
 
-  clang-tidy:
+  clang-tidy-pylint:
+
+    name: Python and C/C++ Lint
 
     runs-on: ubuntu-22.04
 
@@ -205,7 +196,6 @@ jobs:
         run: |
           git fetch origin main
           git diff -U0 origin/main | clang-tidy-diff -p1 -path build -export-fixes fixes.yml
-          cat fixes.yml
 
       - name: Post clang-tidy requests
         env:
@@ -214,7 +204,7 @@ jobs:
           PULL_REQUEST_ID="$(jq "if (.issue.number != null) then .issue.number else .number end" < "$GITHUB_EVENT_PATH")"
           echo $PULL_REQUEST_ID
           
-          GITHUB_TOKEN=${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}  python utils/git/clang-tidy-pr.py \
+          GITHUB_TOKEN=${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}  python utils/git/clang_tidy_pr.py \
           --clang-tidy-fixes fixes.yml \
           --pull-request-id "$PULL_REQUEST_ID" \
           --repository "$GITHUB_REPOSITORY" \
@@ -222,9 +212,141 @@ jobs:
           --request-changes "false" \
           --suggestions-per-comment 10
 
+      # You can feed the pylintrc path to ciborow/action-pylint
+      # but it doesn't seem to work.
+      - name: Copy pylintrcs
+        run: |
+          cp .pylintrc python/.pylintrc
+          cp .pylintrc test/python/.pylintrc
+          cp .pylintrc tutorials/.pylintrc
+          cp .pylintrc reference_designs/.pylintrc
+          cp .pylintrc utils/.pylintrc
+
+      # You can just do this wholesale at the root (not use workdir)
+      # but it'll take too long because it picks up
+      # the stuff in the build directory.
+      - uses: dciborow/action-pylint@0.1.0
+        env:
+          PYTHONPATH: build/python
+        with:
+          github_token: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
+          reporter: github-pr-review
+          # GitHub Status Check won't become failure with warning.
+          level: warning
+          filter_mode: diff_context
+          workdir: python
+          glob_pattern: "**/*.py"
+
+      - uses: dciborow/action-pylint@0.1.0
+        env:
+          PYTHONPATH: build/python
+        with:
+          github_token: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
+          reporter: github-pr-review
+          level: warning
+          filter_mode: diff_context
+          workdir: test/python
+          glob_pattern: "**/*.py"
+
+      - uses: dciborow/action-pylint@0.1.0
+        env:
+          PYTHONPATH: build/python
+        with:
+          github_token: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
+          reporter: github-pr-review
+          level: warning
+          filter_mode: diff_context
+          workdir: tutorials
+          glob_pattern: "**/*.py"
+
+      - uses: dciborow/action-pylint@0.1.0
+        env:
+          PYTHONPATH: build/python
+        with:
+          github_token: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
+          reporter: github-pr-review
+          level: warning
+          filter_mode: diff_context
+          workdir: reference_designs
+          glob_pattern: "**/*.py"
+
+      - uses: dciborow/action-pylint@0.1.0
+        env:
+          PYTHONPATH: build/python
+        with:
+          github_token: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
+          reporter: github-pr-review
+          level: warning
+          filter_mode: diff_context
+          workdir: utils
+          glob_pattern: "**/*.py"
+
+  formatting:
+
+    name: Python and C/C++ Formatting
+
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+
+    permissions:
+      contents: write
+      pull-requests: write
+
+    steps:
+      - name: Get the project repository
+        uses: actions/checkout@v3
+        with:
+          fetch-depth: 2
+          submodules: "true"
+
+      - name: Install clang-format
+        uses: aminya/setup-cpp@v1
+        with:
+          clangformat: 17.0.1
+
+      - name: Setup Python env
+        uses: actions/setup-python@v4
+        with:
+          python-version: '3.11'
+
+      - name: Install black
+        run: pip install black[jupyter]
+
+      - name: Run git-clang-format
+        id: git-clang-format
+        run: |
+          git fetch origin main
+          # git clang-format returns an error if changes made?
+          git clang-format origin/main || true
+
+      - name: Check C/C++ format
+        uses: reviewdog/action-suggester@v1
+        with:
+          tool_name: clang-format
+          level: error
+          fail_on_error: true
+          cleanup: true
+
+      - name: Run black format
+        if: success() || failure()
+        id: black-format
+        run: |
+          # FORMATTED=0
+          black --exclude python/compiler/aiecc/main.py . || true
+          black -l 10000 python/compiler/aiecc/main.py || true
+          # FORMATTED=$(git status -s -uno | wc -l | xargs)
+          # echo "FORMATTED=$FORMATTED" | tee -a $GITHUB_OUTPUT
+
+      - name: Check Python format
+        if: success() || failure()
+        uses: reviewdog/action-suggester@v1
+        with:
+          tool_name: black
+          level: error
+          fail_on_error: true
+
   code-coverage:
 
-    name: Code Coverage
+    name: C/C++ test code coverage
 
     runs-on: ubuntu-latest
 
@@ -248,10 +370,7 @@ jobs:
           pip install cmake numpy psutil pybind11 rich lit
 
       - name: Install Ninja
-        run: sudo apt-get install -y ninja-build
-
-      - name: Install llvm-cov
-        run: sudo apt-get install -y clang lld llvm
+        run: sudo apt-get install -y ninja-build clang lld llvm
 
       - name: Get changed files
         id: changed-files
@@ -269,7 +388,6 @@ jobs:
 
       - name: Ccache for C++ compilation
         if: steps.changed-files.outputs.changed-files != ''
-        # https://github.com/hendrikmuhs/ccache-action/releases/tag/v1.2.9
         uses: hendrikmuhs/ccache-action@ca3acd2731eef11f1572ccb126356c2f9298d35e
         with:
           key: ${{ runner.os }}-${{ matrix.ubuntu_version }}-${{ steps.get-llvm-commit-hash.outputs.hash }}-code-cov
@@ -335,95 +453,3 @@ jobs:
           body-path: /home/runner/work/mlir-aie/mlir-aie/build_release/report/index.html
           edit-mode: replace
 
-  CppFormatting:
-
-    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
-
-    permissions:
-      contents: write
-      pull-requests: write
-
-    steps:
-      - name: Get the project repository
-        uses: actions/checkout@v3
-        with:
-          fetch-depth: 2
-          submodules: "true"
-
-      - name: Install clang-format
-        uses: aminya/setup-cpp@v1
-        with:
-          clangformat: 17.0.1
-
-      - name: Setup Python env
-        uses: actions/setup-python@v4
-        with:
-          python-version: '3.11'
-
-      - name: Run git-clang-format
-        id: git-clang-format
-        run: |
-          git fetch origin main
-          FORMATTED=0
-          git clang-format origin/main || FORMATTED=$?
-          echo "FORMATTED=$FORMATTED" | tee -a $GITHUB_OUTPUT
-
-      - name: Annotate diff changes using reviewdog
-        if: steps.git-clang-format.outputs.FORMATTED != '0'
-        uses: reviewdog/action-suggester@v1
-        with:
-          tool_name: clang-format
-
-      - name: Fail
-        if: steps.git-clang-format.outputs.FORMATTED != '0'
-        run: |
-          exit 1
-
-
-  PythonFormatting:
-
-    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
-
-    permissions:
-      contents: write
-      pull-requests: write
-
-    steps:
-      - name: Get the project repository
-        uses: actions/checkout@v3
-        with:
-          fetch-depth: 2
-          submodules: "true"
-
-      - name: Install clang-format
-        uses: aminya/setup-cpp@v1
-        with:
-          clangformat: 17.0.1
-
-      - name: Setup Python env
-        uses: actions/setup-python@v4
-        with:
-          python-version: '3.11'
-
-      - name: Install black
-        run: pip install black
-
-      - name: Run black format
-        id: black-format
-        run: |
-          FORMATTED=0
-          black . || FORMATTED=$?
-          FORMATTED=$($FORMATTED || git status -s -uno | wc -l | xargs)
-          echo "FORMATTED=$FORMATTED" | tee -a $GITHUB_OUTPUT
-          git diff
-
-      - name: Annotate diff changes using reviewdog
-        if: steps.black-format.outputs.FORMATTED != '0'
-        uses: reviewdog/action-suggester@v1
-        with:
-          tool_name: black
-
-      - name: Fail
-        if: steps.black-format.outputs.FORMATTED != '0'
-        run: |
-          exit 1
diff --git a/.pylintrc b/.pylintrc
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..3bf50480f7
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.pylintrc
@@ -0,0 +1,58 @@
+[MAIN]
+
+py-version=3.9
+
+[BASIC]
+
+argument-naming-style=snake_case
+attr-naming-style=snake_case
+bad-names=foo,
+          bar,
+          baz,
+          toto,
+          tutu,
+          tata
+
+class-attribute-naming-style=snake_case
+class-const-naming-style=UPPER_CASE
+class-naming-style=PascalCase
+const-naming-style=UPPER_CASE
+docstring-min-length=-1
+function-naming-style=snake_case
+include-naming-hint=yes
+inlinevar-naming-style=snake_case
+method-naming-style=snake_case
+module-naming-style=snake_case
+variable-naming-style=snake_case
+
+[CLASSES]
+
+valid-classmethod-first-arg=cls
+valid-metaclass-classmethod-first-arg=mcs
+
+[IMPORTS]
+
+allow-wildcard-with-all=no
+
+[SIMILARITIES]
+
+# Minimum lines number of a similarity.
+min-similarity-lines=4
+
+[STRING]
+
+# This flag controls whether inconsistent-quotes generates a warning when the
+# character used as a quote delimiter is used inconsistently within a module.
+check-quote-consistency=yes
+
+# This flag controls whether the implicit-str-concat should generate a warning
+# on implicit string concatenation in sequences defined over several lines.
+check-str-concat-over-line-jumps=yes
+
+[MESSAGES CONTROL]
+
+# C0116: Missing function or method docstring (missing-function-docstring)
+# C0114: Missing module docstring (missing-module-docstring)
+# E0402: Attempted relative import beyond top-level package (relative-beyond-top-level)
+# C0115: Missing class docstring (missing-class-docstring)
+disable=C0116,C0114,E0402,C0115
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/python/util.py b/python/util.py
index 423baa7118..3dfa55399c 100644
--- a/python/util.py
+++ b/python/util.py
@@ -62,10 +62,10 @@ def infer_mlir_type(
         elif 2 ** 63 <= py_val < 2 ** 64:
             return T.ui64()
         else:
-            raise RuntimeError(f"Nonrepresentable integer {py_val}.")
+            raise RuntimeError(f'Nonrepresentable integer {py_val}.')
     elif isinstance(py_val, float):
         if (
-            abs(py_val) == float("inf")
+            abs(py_val) == float('inf')
             or abs(py_val) == 0.0
             or py_val != py_val  # NaN
             or np.finfo(np.float32).min <= abs(py_val) <= np.finfo(np.float32).max
@@ -78,7 +78,7 @@ def infer_mlir_type(
         return RankedTensorType.get(py_val.shape, dtype)
     else:
         raise NotImplementedError(
-            f"Unsupported Python value {py_val=} with type {type(py_val)}"
+            f'Unsupported Python value {py_val=} with type {type(py_val)}'
         )
 
 
@@ -119,3 +119,7 @@ def mlir_mod_ctx(
         ip = InsertionPoint(module.body)
         stack.enter_context(ip)
         yield MLIRContext(context, module)
+
+
+def bad_function_with_list_default_args(a=[]):
+    return a[0]
diff --git a/test/python/aie_ops.py b/test/python/aie_ops.py
index c8fd622ed3..217737e3a6 100644
--- a/test/python/aie_ops.py
+++ b/test/python/aie_ops.py
@@ -268,3 +268,8 @@ def test_module_context():
 
 
 test_module_context()
+
+
+def second_bad_function_with_unused_stuff(a):
+    b = 1
+    return 2
diff --git a/utils/git/clang-tidy-pr.py b/utils/git/clang_tidy_pr.py
similarity index 99%
rename from utils/git/clang-tidy-pr.py
rename to utils/git/clang_tidy_pr.py
index 2bd0e9c240..2d31ba0105 100644
--- a/utils/git/clang-tidy-pr.py
+++ b/utils/git/clang_tidy_pr.py
@@ -535,7 +535,7 @@ def main():
     github_api_timeout = 10
 
     warning_comment_prefix = (
-        ":warning: `Clang-Tidy` found issue(s) with the introduced code"
+        "# :warning: `Clang-Tidy` found issue(s) with the introduced code"
     )
 
     diff_lines_per_file = get_diff_lines_per_file(
diff --git a/utils/requirements.txt b/utils/requirements.txt
index 6ce53a69db..c6160d72d7 100644
--- a/utils/requirements.txt
+++ b/utils/requirements.txt
@@ -3,3 +3,4 @@ rich
 pybind11
 numpy
 cmake
+pylint
\ No newline at end of file