diff --git a/.github/workflows/publish.yaml b/.github/workflows/publish.yaml
index f3f5da8..d461342 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/publish.yaml
+++ b/.github/workflows/publish.yaml
@@ -1,8 +1,15 @@
-name: "Publish package and documentation"
+name: publish-packages-and-docs
 
 on:
   release:
     types: ["published"]
+  workflow_dispatch:
+    inputs:
+      is_test:
+        description: 'Indicates that the run should publish to the test repositories'
+        required: false
+        type: boolean
+        default: false
 
 jobs:
   packages:
@@ -22,16 +29,16 @@ jobs:
         with:
           enable-cache: true
 
-      - name: Build
-        run: uv build
+      - name: Build package
+        run: make build
 
-      - name: Publish RC packages to PyPI Test
-        if: contains(github.event.release.tag_name, '-rc')
+      - name: Publish packages to PyPI Test
+        if: ${{ github.event.inputs.run_deploy == 'true' }}
         run: |
           uv publish --index testpypi --token ${{ secrets.TEST_PYPI_TOKEN }}
 
       - name: Publish release packages to PyPI
-        if: ${{ ! contains(github.event.release.tag_name, '-rc') }}
+        if: ${{ github.event.inputs.run_deploy == 'false' }}
         run: uv publish --token ${{ secrets.PYPI_TOKEN }}
 
   docs:
@@ -50,10 +57,10 @@ jobs:
           enable-cache: true
 
       - name: Generate docs
-        run: make install generate-docs
+        run: make generate-docs
 
-      - name: Publish RC docs
-        if: contains(github.event.release.tag_name, '-rc')
+      - name: Publish release docs to test location
+        if: ${{ github.event.inputs.run_deploy == 'true' }}
         uses: peaceiris/actions-gh-pages@v4
         with:
           github_token: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
@@ -61,8 +68,8 @@ jobs:
           # this puts the docs for this tag under gh-pages:/rc/<tag>/
           destination_dir: rc/${{ github.event.release.tag_name }}
 
-      - name: Publish release docs
-        if: ${{ ! contains(github.event.release.tag_name, '-rc') }}
+      - name: Publish release docs to production location
+        if: ${{ github.event.inputs.run_deploy == 'false' }}
         uses: peaceiris/actions-gh-pages@v4
         with:
           github_token: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
diff --git a/.github/workflows/test.yaml b/.github/workflows/test.yaml
index 90e2bf8..17dcae2 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/test.yaml
+++ b/.github/workflows/test.yaml
@@ -2,6 +2,11 @@ name: test
 
 on:
   push:
+    branches:
+      - main
+  pull_request:
+    branches:
+      - main
   workflow_dispatch:
 
 jobs:
diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index 98b8f84..87024ef 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -1,25 +1,28 @@
-UV_PYTHON ?= 3.12
-
-.PHONY: help install test lint fmt generate-docs build-and-load-configure image build-and-load-system-test-image
+.PHONY: build help install test lint fmt generate-docs build-and-load-configure image build-and-load-system-test-image
 
 help: # Show help for each of the Makefile recipes.
 	@grep -E '^[a-zA-Z0-9 -]+:.*#'  Makefile | sort | while read -r l; do printf "\033[1;34m$$(echo $$l | cut -f 1 -d':')\033[00m:$$(echo $$l | cut -f 2- -d'#')\n"; done
 
 install: # install dependencies for running tests and linting
 	uv python install
+
+dev: install # Install development/release dependencies
 	uv sync --extra dev
 
-test: install # run tests
+build: install # build package
+	uv build
+
+test: install dev # run tests
 	uv run --isolated --with-editable '.[dev]' pytest
 
-lint: install # run linting checks
+lint: install dev # run linting checks
 	uv run ruff check kratix_sdk tests
 	uv run ruff format --check kratix_sdk tests
 
-fmt: install # run code formatter
+fmt: install dev # run code formatter
 	uv run ruff format kratix_sdk tests
 
-generate-docs: install # create API documentation
+generate-docs: install dev # create API documentation
 	uv run pdoc src/kratix_sdk -o docs
 
 build-and-load-configure-image: # build example docker image and load it into kind