diff --git a/.github/workflows/marketplace-publish.yml b/.github/workflows/marketplace-publish.yml
index 07d6144d27..5f99b44ca6 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/marketplace-publish.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/marketplace-publish.yml
@@ -6,7 +6,6 @@ on:
 
 jobs:
   publish-extension:
-    if: ${{ github.actor == 'R00-B0T'}}
     runs-on: ubuntu-latest
     if: ${{ github.actor == 'R00-B0T'}}
     steps:
diff --git a/.github/workflows/release.yml b/.github/workflows/release.yml
deleted file mode 100644
index 451db0d211..0000000000
--- a/.github/workflows/release.yml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,70 +0,0 @@
-name: Release
-run-name: Release ${{ github.event_name == 'push' && '- Create Changeset PR' || '- Approve & Merge Changeset PR' }}
-
-on:
-  pull_request:
-        types: [closed]
-  pull_request_target:
-
-concurrency: ${{ github.workflow }}-${{ github.ref }}
-
-env:
-  AWS_REGION: us-east-1
-
-jobs:
-  release:
-    name: Release
-    if: >
-        github.event_name == 'pull_request' &&
-        github.event.pull_request.merged == true &&
-        github.event.pull_request.base.ref == 'main'
-    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
-    permissions:
-      contents: write
-      pull-requests: write
-    steps:
-      - name: Checkout Repo
-        uses: actions/checkout@v4
-        with:
-          fetch-depth: 0
-      - name: Setup Node.js 20
-        uses: actions/setup-node@v4
-        with:
-          node-version: 20
-
-      - name: NPM Install
-        run: |
-          npm run install:all
-          npm run build
-
-      - name: Changeset Pull Request
-        id: changesets
-        uses: changesets/action@v1
-        with:
-          commit: "changeset version bump"
-          title: "Changeset version bump"
-          version: npm run version-packages # This performs the changeset version bump
-          # publish: npm run publish # Revisit possible refactor along with npm-publish.yml
-        env:
-          GITHUB_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.CROSS_REPO_ACCESS_TOKEN }}
-
-  auto-approve-and-merge:
-    name: Auto approve and merge Bump version PRs
-    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
-    if: github.actor == 'R00-B0T' && contains(github.event.pull_request.title, 'Changeset version bump')
-    permissions:
-      pull-requests: write
-    
-    steps:
-      - name: Checkout Repo
-        uses: actions/checkout@v4
-        with:
-          token: ${{ secrets.CROSS_REPO_ACCESS_TOKEN }}
-      - name: Auto approve PR
-        uses: hmarr/auto-approve-action@v4
-        with:
-          review-message: "I'm approving since it's a bump version PR"
-      - name: Enable automerge on PR
-        run: gh pr merge --squash --auto ${{ github.event.pull_request.number }}
-        env:
-          GH_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.CROSS_REPO_ACCESS_TOKEN }}
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diff --git a/package.json b/package.json
index 752ae42dcd..1568bc8250 100644
--- a/package.json
+++ b/package.json
@@ -150,6 +150,7 @@
     "test:webview": "cd webview-ui && npm run test",
     "publish:marketplace": "vsce publish",
     "publish": "npm run build && changeset publish && npm install --package-lock-only",
+    "prepare": "husky",
     "version-packages": "changeset version && npm install --package-lock-only",
     "vscode:prepublish": "npm run package",
     "vsix": "mkdir -p bin && npx vsce package --out bin",