diff --git a/.github/workflows/automerge.yml b/.github/workflows/automerge.yml
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..e603a4c88
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.github/workflows/automerge.yml
@@ -0,0 +1,17 @@
+name: Bot auto-merge
+on: pull_request  # yamllint disable-line rule:truthy
+
+jobs:
+  autobot:
+    permissions:
+      contents: write
+      pull-requests: write
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    # Names can be found with gh api /repos/mne-tools/mne-python/pulls/12998 -q .user.login for example
+    if: (github.event.pull_request.user.login == 'dependabot[bot]' || github.event.pull_request.user.login == 'pre-commit-ci[bot]' || github.event.pull_request.user.login == 'github-actions[bot]') && github.repository == 'mne-tools/mne-bids-pipeline'
+    steps:
+      - name: Enable auto-merge for bot PRs
+        run: gh pr merge --auto --squash "$PR_URL"
+        env:
+          PR_URL: ${{github.event.pull_request.html_url}}
+          GH_TOKEN: ${{secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN}}
diff --git a/.pre-commit-config.yaml b/.pre-commit-config.yaml
index 6d42d54de..985e7b05d 100644
--- a/.pre-commit-config.yaml
+++ b/.pre-commit-config.yaml
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 files: ^(.*\.(py|yaml))$
 repos:
   - repo: https://github.com/astral-sh/ruff-pre-commit
-    rev: v0.8.3
+    rev: v0.8.4
     hooks:
       - id: ruff
         args: ["--fix"]
@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@ repos:
         args: [--strict]
 
   - repo: https://github.com/pre-commit/mirrors-mypy
-    rev: v1.13.0
+    rev: v1.14.0
     hooks:
       - id: mypy
         additional_dependencies:
diff --git a/mne_bids_pipeline/steps/preprocessing/_06a2_find_ica_artifacts.py b/mne_bids_pipeline/steps/preprocessing/_06a2_find_ica_artifacts.py
index 90db43c06..c2211476c 100644
--- a/mne_bids_pipeline/steps/preprocessing/_06a2_find_ica_artifacts.py
+++ b/mne_bids_pipeline/steps/preprocessing/_06a2_find_ica_artifacts.py
@@ -218,7 +218,7 @@ def find_ica_artifacts(
     # EOG component detection
     epochs_eog = None
     eog_ics: list[int] = []
-    eog_scores = np.zeros(0)
+    eog_scores: FloatArrayT = np.zeros(0)
     for ri, raw_fname in enumerate(raw_fnames):
         raw = mne.io.read_raw_fif(raw_fname, preload=True)
         if cfg.eog_channels: