diff --git a/package.json b/package.json
index 93ec4e85d67..c6e955342e8 100644
--- a/package.json
+++ b/package.json
@@ -104,7 +104,7 @@
     "yargs": "^17.0.1"
   },
   "scripts": {
-    "prepare": "gulp prepare && husky && playwright install --with-deps",
+    "prepare": "gulp prepare && husky && node scripts/isCI.js || playwright install --with-deps",
     "start": "node server.js",
     "start-public": "node server.js --public",
     "build": "gulp build",
diff --git a/scripts/isCI.js b/scripts/isCI.js
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..559a2e71535
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/isCI.js
@@ -0,0 +1,12 @@
+// Logic and values based on is-ci https://github.com/watson/is-ci/blob/master/bin.js
+// which uses ci-info under the hood https://github.com/watson/ci-info/blob/master/index.js
+// This just extracts the specific parts we need without adding more dependencies
+
+const { env } = process;
+
+const isCI = !!(
+  env.CI !== "false" && // Bypass all checks if CI env is explicitly set to 'false'
+  env.CI // GitHub CI
+);
+
+process.exit(isCI ? 0 : 1);