diff --git a/.github/workflows/lint.yml b/.github/workflows/lint.yml
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..9e96349325fd
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.github/workflows/lint.yml
@@ -0,0 +1,49 @@
+name: Lint
+on: push
+# concurrency:
+#   group: lint-${{ github.ref }}
+#   cancel-in-progress: true
+
+jobs:
+  ruff:
+    strategy:
+      fail-fast: false
+      matrix:
+        python-version: ["3.8"]
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    timeout-minutes: 5
+    steps:
+      - run: echo "/root/.local/bin" >> $GITHUB_PATH
+      - uses: actions/checkout@v3
+      - name: Install poetry
+        run: pipx install poetry
+      - uses: actions/setup-python@v4
+        with:
+          python-version: ${{ matrix.python-version }}
+          cache: "poetry"
+          cache-dependency-path: "python/pyproject.toml"
+      - name: Install SemanticKernel
+        run: cd python && poetry install --no-ansi
+      - name: Run lint
+        run: cd python && poetry run ruff check .
+  black:
+    strategy:
+      fail-fast: false
+      matrix:
+        python-version: ["3.8"]
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    timeout-minutes: 5
+    steps:
+      - run: echo "/root/.local/bin" >> $GITHUB_PATH
+      - uses: actions/checkout@v3
+      - name: Install poetry
+        run: pipx install poetry
+      - uses: actions/setup-python@v4
+        with:
+          python-version: ${{ matrix.python-version }}
+          cache: "poetry"
+          cache-dependency-path: "python/pyproject.toml"
+      - name: Install SemanticKernel
+        run: cd python && poetry install --no-ansi
+      - name: Run lint
+        run: cd python && poetry run black --check .
diff --git a/python/poetry.lock b/python/poetry.lock
index 654ec17b4dae..eb21fded5cf9 100644
--- a/python/poetry.lock
+++ b/python/poetry.lock
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# This file is automatically @generated by Poetry 1.4.0 and should not be changed by hand.
+# This file is automatically @generated by Poetry and should not be changed by hand.
 
 [[package]]
 name = "aiohttp"
@@ -1494,6 +1494,33 @@ urllib3 = ">=1.21.1,<1.27"
 socks = ["PySocks (>=1.5.6,!=1.5.7)"]
 use-chardet-on-py3 = ["chardet (>=3.0.2,<6)"]
 
+[[package]]
+name = "ruff"
+version = "0.0.257"
+description = "An extremely fast Python linter, written in Rust."
+category = "dev"
+optional = false
+python-versions = ">=3.7"
+files = [
+    {file = "ruff-0.0.257-py3-none-macosx_10_7_x86_64.whl", hash = "sha256:7280640690c1d0046b20e0eb924319a89d8e22925d7d232180ce31196e7478f8"},
+    {file = "ruff-0.0.257-py3-none-macosx_10_9_x86_64.macosx_11_0_arm64.macosx_10_9_universal2.whl", hash = "sha256:4582b73da61ab410ffda35b2987a6eacb33f18263e1c91810f0b9779ec4f41a9"},
+    {file = "ruff-0.0.257-py3-none-manylinux_2_17_aarch64.manylinux2014_aarch64.whl", hash = "sha256:5acae9878f1136893e266348acdb9d30dfae23c296d3012043816432a5abdd51"},
+    {file = "ruff-0.0.257-py3-none-manylinux_2_17_armv7l.manylinux2014_armv7l.whl", hash = "sha256:d9f0912d045eee15e8e02e335c16d7a7f9fb6821aa5eb1628eeb5bbfa3d88908"},
+    {file = "ruff-0.0.257-py3-none-manylinux_2_17_i686.manylinux2014_i686.whl", hash = "sha256:4a9542c34ee5298b31be6c6ba304f14b672dcf104846ee65adb2466d3e325870"},
+    {file = "ruff-0.0.257-py3-none-manylinux_2_17_ppc64.manylinux2014_ppc64.whl", hash = "sha256:3464f1ad4cea6c4b9325da13ae306bd22bf15d226e18d19c52db191b1f4355ac"},
+    {file = "ruff-0.0.257-py3-none-manylinux_2_17_ppc64le.manylinux2014_ppc64le.whl", hash = "sha256:5a54bfd559e558ee0df2a2f3756423fe6a9de7307bc290d807c3cdf351cb4c24"},
+    {file = "ruff-0.0.257-py3-none-manylinux_2_17_s390x.manylinux2014_s390x.whl", hash = "sha256:3438fd38446e1a0915316f4085405c9feca20fe00a4b614995ab7034dbfaa7ff"},
+    {file = "ruff-0.0.257-py3-none-manylinux_2_17_x86_64.manylinux2014_x86_64.whl", hash = "sha256:358cc2b547bd6451dcf2427b22a9c29a2d9c34e66576c693a6381c5f2ed3011d"},
+    {file = "ruff-0.0.257-py3-none-musllinux_1_2_aarch64.whl", hash = "sha256:783390f1e94a168c79d7004426dae3e4ae2999cc85f7d00fdd86c62262b71854"},
+    {file = "ruff-0.0.257-py3-none-musllinux_1_2_armv7l.whl", hash = "sha256:aaa3b5b6929c63a854b6bcea7a229453b455ab26337100b2905fae4523ca5667"},
+    {file = "ruff-0.0.257-py3-none-musllinux_1_2_i686.whl", hash = "sha256:4ecd7a84db4816df2dcd0f11c5365a9a2cf4fa70a19b3ac161b7b0bfa592959d"},
+    {file = "ruff-0.0.257-py3-none-musllinux_1_2_x86_64.whl", hash = "sha256:3db8d77d5651a2c0d307102d717627a025d4488d406f54c2764b21cfbe11d822"},
+    {file = "ruff-0.0.257-py3-none-win32.whl", hash = "sha256:d2c8755fa4f6c5e5ec032ad341ca3beeecd16786e12c3f26e6b0cc40418ae998"},
+    {file = "ruff-0.0.257-py3-none-win_amd64.whl", hash = "sha256:3cec07d6fecb1ebbc45ea8eeb1047b929caa2f7dfb8dd4b0e1869ff789326da5"},
+    {file = "ruff-0.0.257-py3-none-win_arm64.whl", hash = "sha256:352f1bdb9b433b3b389aee512ffb0b82226ae1e25b3d92e4eaf0e7be6b1b6f6a"},
+    {file = "ruff-0.0.257.tar.gz", hash = "sha256:fedfd06a37ddc17449203c3e38fc83fb68de7f20b5daa0ee4e60d3599b38bab0"},
+]
+
 [[package]]
 name = "setuptools"
 version = "67.6.0"
@@ -1782,4 +1809,4 @@ testing = ["big-O", "flake8 (<5)", "jaraco.functools", "jaraco.itertools", "more
 [metadata]
 lock-version = "2.0"
 python-versions = "^3.8"
-content-hash = "9a402301e33bc7b47dc3fe8de479100af889e251761063431b5d6a10fa6ff182"
+content-hash = "7ea1896a8f05ba84a08fcade21b11f6996eb8778f1688f6146761fdda125ac5f"
diff --git a/python/pyproject.toml b/python/pyproject.toml
index c3b638553594..452a716161df 100644
--- a/python/pyproject.toml
+++ b/python/pyproject.toml
@@ -16,6 +16,7 @@ pre-commit = "^2.21.0"
 black = {version = "^23.1.0", allow-prereleases = true}
 ipykernel = "^6.21.1"
 pytest = "7.2.0"
+ruff = "^0.0.257"
 
 [tool.isort]
 profile = "black"
diff --git a/python/semantic_kernel/core_skills/text_memory_skill.py b/python/semantic_kernel/core_skills/text_memory_skill.py
index 9a99a4c2a837..c93ef58a91f2 100644
--- a/python/semantic_kernel/core_skills/text_memory_skill.py
+++ b/python/semantic_kernel/core_skills/text_memory_skill.py
@@ -9,7 +9,6 @@
 
 
 class TextMemorySkill:
-
     COLLECTION_PARAM = "collection"
     RELEVANCE_PARAM = "relevance"
     KEY_PARAM = "key"