diff --git a/.github/workflows/ci.yml b/.github/workflows/ci.yml
index bfc64fc..863e83b 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/ci.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/ci.yml
@@ -23,6 +23,9 @@ jobs:
       - name: run black
         run: black --check .
 
+      - name: run pylint for mdp folder
+        run: pylint src/behavior_generation_lecture_python/mdp --errors-only
+
       - name: test
         run: pytest
 
diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index 7d8b9c7..f3ad49a 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -24,7 +24,8 @@ dependencies = [
 dev = [
   "black[jupyter]==22.3.0",
   "pytest",
-  "pytest-cov>=3.0.0"
+  "pytest-cov>=3.0.0",
+  "pylint"
 ]
 docs = [
   "mkdocs-material",