diff --git a/.github/workflows/validate-release-notes.yml b/.github/workflows/validate-release-notes.yml
deleted file mode 100644
index 842ff74..0000000
--- a/.github/workflows/validate-release-notes.yml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,17 +0,0 @@
-name: Validate Release Notes
-
-on:
-  pull_request:
-    branches: [main]
-    paths: ["release-notes/*.yml"]
-    
-jobs:
-  validate:
-    name: Validate Release Notes
-    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
-    steps:
-      - name: Checkout repository
-        uses: actions/checkout@v3
-      
-      - name: Validate Release Notes
-        run: python ci/check-release-notes.py release-notes/next.yml release-notes/stable.yml release-notes/testing.yml
diff --git a/.pre-commit-config.yaml b/.pre-commit-config.yaml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..a524304
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.pre-commit-config.yaml
@@ -0,0 +1,9 @@
+repos:
+-   repo: local
+    hooks:
+    -   id: syntax-check
+        name: Syntax Check
+        entry: make syntax-check
+        language: system
+        types: [yaml, json]
+        files: ^(release-notes/.*\.yml$|streams/.*\.json$|updates/.*\.json$)
diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index 90b2d76..8424813 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -1,7 +1,8 @@
-.PHONY: syntax-check
+.PHONY: syntax-check print-rollouts
+
 syntax-check:
 	@find streams updates -iname '*.json' | sort | xargs -n 1 python3 -c 'import json, sys; json.load(open(sys.argv[1]))'
+	@find release-notes -iname '*.yml' | sort | xargs -n1 python3 ci/check-release-notes.py
 
-.PHONY: print-rollouts
 print-rollouts:
 	@find updates -iname '*.json' -printf '%f\n' | cut -f1 -d. | sort | xargs ./rollout.py print