diff --git a/.github/workflows/checks.yml b/.github/workflows/checks.yml
index a7873cf..ef7ec11 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/checks.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/checks.yml
@@ -1,30 +1,31 @@
 name: Run quality checks
 
-# on all branches
 on:
-  push:
-    branches:
-      - '*'
+  workflow_call:
+  workflow_dispatch:
+  pull_request:
+    branches: [main]
+
+concurrency:
+  group: "checks ${{ github.ref }}"
+  cancel-in-progress: true
 
 jobs:
-  publish:
+  ci:
     runs-on: ubuntu-latest
     steps:
       - uses: actions/checkout@v4
-        with:
-          fetch-depth: 0
       - uses: actions/setup-python@v5
         with:
           python-version: 3.8
+          cache: "pip"
       - name: Install dependencies
         run: |
           python -m pip install --upgrade pip
           pip install ".[ci]"
 
       - name: Check sentence casing
-        run: |
-          poe check-sentence-casing
+        run: poe check-sentence-casing
 
       - name: Check options
-        run: |
-          poe check-options
+        run: poe check-options
diff --git a/.github/workflows/publish.yml b/.github/workflows/publish.yml
index 0c9eb2c..1587156 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/publish.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/publish.yml
@@ -15,15 +15,18 @@ on:
           - patch
 
 jobs:
+  check:
+    uses: ./.github/workflows/checks.yml
+    secrets: inherit
   publish:
+    needs: [check]
     runs-on: ubuntu-latest
     steps:
       - uses: actions/checkout@v4
-        with:
-          fetch-depth: 0
       - uses: actions/setup-python@v5
         with:
           python-version: 3.8
+          cache: "pip"
       - name: Install dependencies
         run: |
           python -m pip install --upgrade pip
@@ -31,14 +34,6 @@ jobs:
           pip install twine
           pip install ".[ci]"
 
-      - name: Check sentence casing
-        run: |
-          poe check-sentence-casing
-
-      - name: Check options
-        run: |
-          poe check-options
-
       - name: Bump version and commit change
         run: |
           semantic-release version --${{ github.event.inputs.scope }}
diff --git a/moderne_visualizations_misc/specs/dependency_usage_violin_nuget.yml b/moderne_visualizations_misc/specs/dependency_usage_violin_nuget.yml
index 170508c..289cc97 100644
--- a/moderne_visualizations_misc/specs/dependency_usage_violin_nuget.yml
+++ b/moderne_visualizations_misc/specs/dependency_usage_violin_nuget.yml
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 ---
 type: specs.moderne.io/v1beta/visualization
 name: io.moderne.DependencyUsageViolinNuget
-displayName: C# Dependency usage
+displayName: C# dependency usage
 description: >
   See the distribution of dependencies by version.
 recipe: