diff --git a/.github/workflows/build.yml b/.github/workflows/build.yml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..96808a8
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.github/workflows/build.yml
@@ -0,0 +1,61 @@
+name: build
+
+on:
+  push:
+    branches:
+    - main
+    - release**
+    paths-ignore:
+      - '**.md'
+  pull_request:
+    paths-ignore:
+      - '**.md'
+  workflow_dispatch:
+  schedule:
+    - cron: '0 6 * * 1'
+
+# This will cancel previous run if a newer job that obsoletes the said previous
+# run, is started.
+# Based on https://github.com/zulip/zulip/commit/4a11642cee3c8aec976d305d51a86e60e5d70522
+concurrency:
+  group: "${{ github.workflow }}-${{ github.head_ref || github.run_id }}"
+  cancel-in-progress: true
+
+jobs:
+  build:
+    runs-on: ${{ matrix.os }}-latest
+    # We need an explicit timeout because sometimes the batch_runner test never
+    # completes.
+    timeout-minutes: 6
+    strategy:
+      fail-fast: False
+      matrix:
+        os: [windows, ubuntu, macos]
+        python-version: ["3.12"]
+        include:
+          - os: ubuntu
+            python-version: "3.11"
+          - os: ubuntu
+            python-version: "3.10"
+          # Disabled for now. See https://github.com/projectmesa/mesa/issues/1253
+          #- os: ubuntu
+          #  python-version: 'pypy-3.8'
+
+    steps:
+    - uses: actions/checkout@v4
+    - name: Set up Python ${{ matrix.python-version }}
+      uses: actions/setup-python@v5
+      with:
+        python-version: ${{ matrix.python-version }}
+        cache: 'pip'
+    - name: Install uv
+      run: pip install uv
+    - name: Install mesa-frames
+      # See https://github.com/astral-sh/uv/issues/1945
+      run: |
+        uv pip install --system .[dev]
+    - name: Test with pytest
+      run: pytest --durations=10 --cov=mesa_frames tests/ --cov-report=xml
+    - if: matrix.os == 'ubuntu'
+      name: Codecov
+      uses: codecov/codecov-action@v4
diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index b714647..05ac9ad 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ name = "mesa_frames"
 version = "0.1.0-alpha1"
 description = "An extension to the Mesa framework which uses pandas/Polars DataFrames for enhanced performance"
 authors = [
-    { name = "Adam Amer" },
+  { name = "Adam Amer" },
 ]
 license = { text = "MIT" }
 dependencies = [
@@ -16,12 +16,19 @@ dependencies = [
 
 [project.optional-dependencies]
 pandas = [
-    "pandas~=2.2",
-    "geopandas",
-    "pyarrow",
+  "pandas~=2.2",
+  "geopandas",
+  "pyarrow",
 ]
 polars = [
-    "polars",
+  "polars",
+]
+dev = [
+  "mesa_frames[pandas,polars]",
+  "pytest",
+  "pytest-cov",
+  "typeguard",
+  "mesa",
 ]
 
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