diff --git a/.github/workflows/pyright.yaml b/.github/workflows/pyright.yaml
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..0c57315ef
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.github/workflows/pyright.yaml
@@ -0,0 +1,29 @@
+---
+name: Pyright
+
+on: [push, pull_request]
+
+jobs:
+  pyright:
+    name: Run Pyright
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    steps:
+      - name: Checkout repo
+        uses: actions/checkout@v4
+
+      - name: Setup Python
+        uses: actions/setup-python@v5
+        with:
+          python-version: "3.12"
+          cache: pip
+
+      - name: Install Python dependencies
+        run: |
+          python -m pip install --upgrade uv
+          uv pip install --system .[pyright,pytest]
+
+      - name: Execute Pyright
+        uses: jordemort/action-pyright@v1
+        with:
+          github_token: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
+          reporter: ${{ github.event_name == 'pull_request' && 'github-pr-review' || 'github-check' }}
diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index cb095d849..23a7c03bf 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -39,6 +39,7 @@ dependencies = [
 dev = ["tagstudio[mkdocs,mypy,pre-commit,pyinstaller,pytest,ruff]"]
 mkdocs = ["mkdocs-material[imaging]>=9.6.14", "mkdocs-redirects~=1.2"]
 mypy = ["mypy==1.15.0", "mypy-extensions==1.*", "types-ujson~=5.10"]
+pyright = ["pyright~=1.1.405"]
 pre-commit = ["pre-commit~=4.2"]
 pyinstaller = ["Pyinstaller~=6.13"]
 pytest = [
@@ -92,13 +93,11 @@ ignore = [
     "src/tagstudio/qt/previews/vendored/pydub/",
 ]
 include = ["src/tagstudio", "tests"]
-reportAny = false
-reportIgnoreCommentWithoutRule = false
+# reference for the settings here: https://github.com/microsoft/pyright/blob/main/docs/configuration.md
 reportImplicitStringConcatenation = false
 reportMissingTypeArgument = false
 reportMissingTypeStubs = false
 # reportOptionalMemberAccess = false
-reportUnannotatedClassAttribute = false
 reportUnknownArgumentType = false
 reportUnknownLambdaType = false
 reportUnknownMemberType = false