diff --git a/.cpplint.cfg b/.cpplint.cfg
index 70348dc..c0bdd3f 100644
--- a/.cpplint.cfg
+++ b/.cpplint.cfg
@@ -11,6 +11,9 @@ filter=-build/c++17
 # Per our style guide, we want to allow the use of non-const reference passing for output parameters
 filter=-runtime/references
 
+# Catch2 idiom is `CHECK(a == b)` with expression decomposition; CHECK_EQ is a gtest macro and not applicable here
+filter=-readability/check
+
 # Disable all formatting checks, this is handled by clang-format
 filter=-readability/braces
 filter=-whitespace/braces
diff --git a/.github/workflows/pre-commit.yml b/.github/workflows/pre-commit.yml
index 093bf31..bff844c 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/pre-commit.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/pre-commit.yml
@@ -10,8 +10,8 @@ jobs:
   pre-commit:
     runs-on: ubuntu-latest
     steps:
-      - uses: actions/checkout@v4
-      - uses: actions/setup-python@v5
+      - uses: actions/checkout@v5
+      - uses: actions/setup-python@v6
         with:
           python-version: "3.10"
       - run: sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install libxml2-utils
diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index ce0d030..ee3b474 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -1,4 +1,15 @@
-# Colcon
+# Colcon (when built from the workspace root, build/ lives there)
 /build/
 /install/
 /log/
+
+# Python / uv
+.venv/
+__pycache__/
+*.py[cod]
+*.egg-info/
+.pytest_cache/
+.ruff_cache/
+
+# Build artifacts from CMake direct invocation
+*.so