diff --git a/.github/workflows/reusable_checks.yml b/.github/workflows/reusable_checks.yml
index 7ab9d1503895a..a8f8f38040e50 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/reusable_checks.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/reusable_checks.yml
@@ -272,6 +272,10 @@ jobs:
         run: |
           ./scripts/lint.py
 
+      - name: Check for zombie TODOs
+        run: |
+          ./scripts/zombie_todos.py --token ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
+
       - name: Check for too large files
         run: |
           ./scripts/ci/check_large_files.sh
diff --git a/scripts/ci/requirements.txt b/scripts/ci/requirements.txt
index 061cbed7d472e..39f2fdf7e52c1 100644
--- a/scripts/ci/requirements.txt
+++ b/scripts/ci/requirements.txt
@@ -4,11 +4,14 @@
 -r ../../rerun_py/requirements-lint.txt
 
 Jinja2==3.1.2
+Pillow==10.0.0
 PyGithub==1.59.0
+
+aiohttp==3.8.5
 colorama==0.4.6
+gitignore-parser==0.1.4
 google-cloud-storage==2.9.0
 packaging==23.1
+python-frontmatter==1.0.0
 requests>=2.31,<3
 tomlkit==0.11.8
-python-frontmatter==1.0.0
-Pillow==10.0.0
diff --git a/scripts/lint.py b/scripts/lint.py
index 0e18c2e44ab98..2a6dd8591ed65 100755
--- a/scripts/lint.py
+++ b/scripts/lint.py
@@ -628,6 +628,7 @@ def main() -> None:
             "./scripts/zombie_todos.py",
             "./web_viewer/re_viewer.js",  # auto-generated by wasm_bindgen
             "./web_viewer/re_viewer_debug.js",  # auto-generated by wasm_bindgen
+            ".github/workflows/reusable_checks.yml",  # zombie TODO hunting job
         }
 
         should_ignore = parse_gitignore(".gitignore")  # TODO(emilk): parse all .gitignore files, not just top-level
diff --git a/scripts/requirements-dev.txt b/scripts/requirements-dev.txt
index bef6b944e98f6..4be81c877cfd9 100644
--- a/scripts/requirements-dev.txt
+++ b/scripts/requirements-dev.txt
@@ -12,4 +12,3 @@ tqdm
 requests
 gitignore_parser  # handle .gitignore
 python-frontmatter==1.0.0
-aiohttp