diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index 0ee92f8137..4676250990 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -12,4 +12,6 @@ id_rsa
 secrets_repo/
 internal_only_repo/
 
+.venv
 __pycache__
+scripts/__pycache__
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/.pylintrc b/.pylintrc
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..80046dd671
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.pylintrc
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+[MASTER]
+init-hook='import sys; sys.path.append("scripts/")'
diff --git a/scripts/__pycache__/fetch_public_metrics.cpython-311.pyc b/scripts/__pycache__/fetch_public_metrics.cpython-311.pyc
index 897b0865a7..9ff82cdac0 100644
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