diff --git a/.copier-answers.yaml b/.copier-answers.yaml
index 5b097d6..29aa8e5 100644
--- a/.copier-answers.yaml
+++ b/.copier-answers.yaml
@@ -1,8 +1,9 @@
 # Changes here will be overwritten by Copier
-_commit: c53b04c
+_commit: 2d0c192
 _src_path: https://github.com/python-project-templates/base.git
 add_docs: false
 add_extension: python
+add_wiki: false
 email: t.paine154@gmail.com
 github: python-project-templates
 project_description: Hatch plugin for CMake/C++ builds
diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index 92ac12e..c9f4873 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -139,10 +139,13 @@ js/dist
 js/lib
 js/node_modules
 js/*.tgz
+hatch_cmake/extension
 
 # Jupyter
 .ipynb_checkpoints
 .autoversion
+!hatch_cmake/extension/hatch_cmake.json
+!hatch_cmake/extension/install.json
 hatch_cmake/nbextension
 hatch_cmake/labextension
 
diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index 05d2f62..8846f7b 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -6,6 +6,11 @@
 develop:  ## install dependencies and build library
 	uv pip install -e .[develop]
 
+requirements:  ## install prerequisite python build requirements
+	python -m pip install --upgrade pip toml
+	python -m pip install `python -c 'import toml; c = toml.load("pyproject.toml"); print("\n".join(c["build-system"]["requires"]))'`
+	python -m pip install `python -c 'import toml; c = toml.load("pyproject.toml"); print(" ".join(c["project"]["optional-dependencies"]["develop"]))'`
+
 build:  ## build the python library
 	python -m build -n
 
@@ -15,20 +20,27 @@ install:  ## install library
 #########
 # LINTS #
 #########
-.PHONY: lint lints fix format
+.PHONY: lint-py lint-docs fix-py fix-docs lint lints fix format
 
-lint:  ## run python linter with ruff
+lint-py:  ## lint python with ruff
 	python -m ruff check hatch_cmake
 	python -m ruff format --check hatch_cmake
 
-# Alias
-lints: lint
+lint-docs:  ## lint docs with mdformat and codespell
+	python -m mdformat --check README.md 
+	python -m codespell_lib README.md 
 
-fix:  ## fix python formatting with ruff
+fix-py:  ## autoformat python code with ruff
 	python -m ruff check --fix hatch_cmake
 	python -m ruff format hatch_cmake
 
-# alias
+fix-docs:  ## autoformat docs with mdformat and codespell
+	python -m mdformat README.md 
+	python -m codespell_lib --write README.md 
+
+lint: lint-py lint-docs  ## run all linters
+lints: lint
+fix: fix-py fix-docs  ## run all autoformatters
 format: fix
 
 ################
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 059035d..fc7c02f 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -8,6 +8,7 @@ Hatch plugin for CMake/C++ builds
 [![PyPI](https://img.shields.io/pypi/v/hatch-cmake.svg)](https://pypi.python.org/pypi/hatch-cmake)
 
 ## Overview
+
 Wrapper for [hatch-cpp](https://github.com/python-project-templates/hatch-cpp).
 
 > [!NOTE]
diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index be10078..046908a 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -41,7 +41,10 @@ develop = [
     "build",
     "bump-my-version",
     "check-manifest",
+    "codespell>=2.4,<2.5",
     "hatchling",
+    "mdformat>=0.7.22,<0.8",
+    "mdformat-tables>=1",
     "pytest",
     "pytest-cov",
     "ruff",
@@ -60,6 +63,7 @@ Homepage = "https://github.com/python-project-templates/hatch-cmake"
 current_version = "0.1.0"
 commit = true
 tag = true
+commit_args = "-s"
 
 [[tool.bumpversion.files]]
 filename = "hatch_cmake/__init__.py"