diff --git a/.github/workflows/snapshot.yml b/.github/workflows/snapshot.yml
index 640d5c01e0..3a86cde841 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/snapshot.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/snapshot.yml
@@ -62,6 +62,11 @@ jobs:
       - name: setup pnpm config
         run: pnpm config set store-dir $PNPM_CACHE_FOLDER
 
+      # this is here because changests refused to format its version
+      # changes so if we dont format here, lint fails
+      # this code never gets committed so its a work around for this workflow
+      - run: pnpm exec nx format:write
+
       - run: pnpm exec nx affected -t build lint test e2e
 
       - uses: actions/upload-artifact@v4