diff --git a/.github/workflows/ci_cd_pr.yml b/.github/workflows/ci_cd_pr.yml
index 63f7350761..b477130c40 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/ci_cd_pr.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/ci_cd_pr.yml
@@ -52,7 +52,8 @@ jobs:
     steps:
       - uses: ansys/actions/code-style@v4
         with: 
-          python-version: ${{ env.MAIN_PYTHON_VERSION }}
+          # DBG
+          python-version: '3.8'
 
   doc-style:
     name: "Doc style checks"
diff --git a/.pre-commit-config.yaml b/.pre-commit-config.yaml
index ec407a8978..5487072833 100644
--- a/.pre-commit-config.yaml
+++ b/.pre-commit-config.yaml
@@ -28,3 +28,9 @@ repos:
   - id: pydocstyle
     additional_dependencies: [toml]
     exclude: "tests/"
+
+- repo: https://github.com/numpy/numpydoc
+  rev: v1.6.0
+  hooks:
+  - id: numpydoc-validation
+    exclude: "^(src/ansys/stk/internal/|tests/)"
diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index 580ee95680..88ab7efcbd 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -37,7 +37,7 @@ tests = [
 doc = [
     "ansys-sphinx-theme==0.12.0",
     "enum-tools[sphinx]==0.11.0",
-    "numpydoc==1.5.0",
+    "numpydoc==1.6.0",
     "sphinx==7.2.6",
     "sphinx-design==0.5.0",
     "sphinx-jinja==2.0.2",
@@ -66,6 +66,26 @@ src_paths = ["examples", "doc", "src", "tests"]
 [tool.codespell]
 ignore-words = "doc/styles/Vocab/ANSYS/accept.txt"
 
+[tool.numpydoc_validation]
+checks = [
+    "GL06",  # Found unknown section
+    "GL07",  # Sections are in the wrong order.
+    # "GL08",  # The object does not have a docstring
+    "GL09",  # Deprecation warning should precede extended summary
+    "GL10",  # reST directives {directives} must be followed by two colons
+    "SS01",  # No summary found
+    # "SS02",  # Summary does not start with a capital letter
+    # "SS03", # Summary does not end with a period
+    # "SS04",  # Summary contains heading whitespaces
+    # "SS05", # Summary must start with infinitive verb, not third person
+    "RT02",  # The first line of the Returns section should contain only the
+    # type, unless multiple values are being returned"
+]
+exclude = [  # don't report on objects that match any of these regex
+    '\.undocumented_method$',
+    '\.__repr__$',
+]
+
 [tool.coverage.run]
 relative_files = true