diff --git a/.github/workflows/dci-merge.yml b/.github/workflows/dci-merge.yml
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..53be3cda3
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.github/workflows/dci-merge.yml
@@ -0,0 +1,26 @@
+---
+
+name: DCI Schedule
+on:
+  merge_group:
+jobs:
+
+  dci-job:
+    name: "Schedule a DCI job"
+    runs-on: bos2
+    steps:
+
+      - name: Checkout
+        uses: actions/checkout@v4
+
+      - name: Run a DCI Job
+        run: |
+          git fetch origin ${{ github.event.merge_group.base_sha }}
+          git fetch origin ${{ github.event.merge_group.head_sha }}
+          if git diff --name-only ${{ github.event.merge_group.base_sha }} ${{ github.event.merge_group.head_sha }} | grep -E 'roles/|plugins/'; then
+            ./hack/dci-merge.sh
+          else
+            echo "No code change"
+          fi
+
+...
diff --git a/.github/workflows/dci.yml b/.github/workflows/dci.yml
index c9487dcf5..3fd09d6ce 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/dci.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/dci.yml
@@ -1,20 +1,24 @@
 ---
 
-name: DCI Schedule
+name: DCI
 on:
   pull_request:
     types: [opened, synchronize, reopened]
-    paths:
-      - 'roles/**'
 jobs:
 
   dci-job:
-    name: "Schedule a DCI job"
+    name: "DCI Job"
     runs-on: bos2
     steps:
 
       - name: Add a dci-check-change job to the queue
         run: |
-          dci-check-change --silent ${{ github.event.pull_request.html_url }}
+          set -x
+          URL="${{ github.event.pull_request._links.self.href }}"
+          if curl -s -L -H "Accept: application/vnd.github+json" -H "Authorization: Bearer ${{ github.token }}" -H "X-GitHub-Api-Version: 2022-11-28" "${URL}/files"|jq -r .[].filename| grep -E 'roles/|plugins/'; then
+            dci-check-change --silent ${{ github.event.pull_request.html_url }}
+          else
+            echo "No code change"
+          fi
 
 ...
diff --git a/.github/workflows/pr.yml b/.github/workflows/pr.yml
index a33a3588c..1dd5bed9d 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/pr.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/pr.yml
@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@ name: Pull Request
 on:
   pull_request:
     types: [opened, synchronize, reopened]
+  merge_group:
 jobs:
   ansible-lint:
     name: Compute ansible-lint score
@@ -118,8 +119,6 @@ jobs:
     name: "Check all dependencies are merged"
     runs-on: ubuntu-latest
     steps:
-      - name: Checkout code
-        uses: actions/checkout@v4
 
       - name: Check all dependent Pull Requests are merged
         uses: depends-on/depends-on-action@main
diff --git a/hack/dci-merge.sh b/hack/dci-merge.sh
new file mode 100755
index 000000000..4d4e48b72
--- /dev/null
+++ b/hack/dci-merge.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,148 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env bash
+#
+# Copyright (C) 2023 Red Hat, Inc.
+#
+# Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may
+# not use this file except in compliance with the License. You may obtain
+# a copy of the License at
+#
+#      http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+#
+# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+# distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT
+# WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. See the
+# License for the specific language governing permissions and limitations
+# under the License.
+
+# script called from a merge queue branch of the redhatci/ansible-collection-redhatci-ocp repo
+
+VIRT=
+DCI_QUEUE=
+SNO_DCI_QUEUE=
+SUPPORTED_HINTS=
+NO_DCI_QUEUE=${NO_DCI_QUEUE:-}
+NO_COMMENT=
+UPGRADE=
+UPGRADE_ARGS=
+APP_NAME=
+APP_ARGS=
+FORCE_CHECK=
+
+# shellcheck disable=SC1091
+if [ -r /etc/dci-openshift-agent/config ]; then
+    . /etc/dci-openshift-agent/config
+fi
+
+GH_HEADERS=(
+    "Accept: application/vnd.github.v3+json"
+    "Authorization: token ${GITHUB_TOKEN}"
+)
+
+# Lookup the merge commits and get their PR descriptions to detect Test-Hints: strings
+COMMIT=HEAD
+VIRT=
+while true; do
+    PR=$(git log -1 "$COMMIT"|grep -oP 'Merge pull request #\K\d+')
+    if [ -n "$PR" ]; then
+        DESC=$(curl -s "${GH_HEADERS[@]/#/-H}" https://api.github.com/repos/redhatci/ansible-collection-redhatci-ocp/pulls/"$PR"|jq -r .body)
+
+        if [[ sno =~ $SUPPORTED_HINTS ]] && grep -qi "^\s*Test-Hints:\s*sno\s*" <<< "$DESC"; then
+            VIRT=--sno
+            if [ -n "$SNO_DCI_QUEUE" ]; then
+                DCI_QUEUE="$SNO_DCI_QUEUE"
+            fi
+        fi
+
+        if [[ sno-ai =~ $SUPPORTED_HINTS ]] && grep -qi "^\s*Test-Hints:\s*sno-ai\s*" <<< "$DESC"; then
+            VIRT=--sno-ai
+            if [ -n "$SNO_AI_DCI_QUEUE" ]; then
+                DCI_QUEUE="$SNO_AI_DCI_QUEUE"
+            fi
+        fi
+
+        if [[ assisted =~ $SUPPORTED_HINTS ]] && grep -qi "^\s*Test-Hints:\s*assisted\s*" <<< "$DESC"; then
+            VIRT=--assisted
+            if [ -n "$ASSISTED_DCI_QUEUE" ]; then
+                DCI_QUEUE="$ASSISTED_DCI_QUEUE"
+            fi
+        fi
+
+        if [[ assisted-abi =~ $SUPPORTED_HINTS ]] && grep -qi "^\s*Test-Hints:\s*assisted-abi\s*" <<< "$DESC"; then
+            VIRT=--assisted-abi
+            if [ -n "$ASSISTED_DCI_QUEUE" ]; then
+                DCI_QUEUE="$ASSISTED_DCI_QUEUE"
+            fi
+        fi
+
+        if [[ libvirt =~ $SUPPORTED_HINTS ]] && grep -qi "^\s*Test-Hints:\s*libvirt\s*" <<< "$DESC"; then
+            VIRT=--virt
+        fi
+
+        if [[ no-check =~ $SUPPORTED_HINTS ]] && grep -qi "^\s*Test-Hints:\s*no-check\s*" <<< "$DESC"; then
+            continue
+        fi
+
+        if [[ force-check =~ $SUPPORTED_HINTS ]] && grep -qi "^\s*Test-Hints:\s*force-check\s*" <<< "$DESC"; then
+            FORCE_CHECK=--force-check
+        fi
+
+        if [[ upgrade =~ $SUPPORTED_HINTS ]] && grep -qi "^\s*Test-Upgrade-Hints:\s*yes\s*" <<< "$DESC"; then
+            UPGRADE=--upgrade
+        
+            if [ -z "$VIRT" ]; then
+                VIRT=--virt
+            fi
+
+            # process Test-Upgrade-Args-Hints
+            if [[ upgrade-args =~ $SUPPORTED_HINTS ]] && grep -qi "^\s*Test-Upgrade-Args-Hints:" <<< "$DESC"; then
+                UPGRADE_ARGS="$(sed -n -e 's/^\s*Test-Upgrade-Args-Hints:\s*//pi' <<< "$DESC")"
+            fi
+
+            # process Test-Upgrade-From-Topic-Hints
+            if [[ upgrade-from-topic =~ $SUPPORTED_HINTS ]] && grep -qi "^\s*Test-Upgrade-From-Topic-Hints:" <<< "$DESC"; then
+                UPGRADE="$UPGRADE --from-topic $(sed -n -e 's/^\s*Test-Upgrade-From-Topic-Hints:\s*//pi' <<< "$DESC")"
+            fi
+
+            # process Test-Upgrade-To-Topic-Hints
+            if [[ upgrade-to-topic =~ $SUPPORTED_HINTS ]] && grep -qi "^\s*Test-Upgrade-To-Topic-Hints:" <<< "$DESC"; then
+                UPGRADE="$UPGRADE --to-topic $(sed -n -e 's/^\s*Test-Upgrade-To-Topic-Hints:\s*//pi' <<< "$DESC")"
+            fi
+        fi
+
+        if [ -n "$VIRT" ]; then
+            # process Test-Args-Hints
+            if [[ args =~ $SUPPORTED_HINTS ]]; then
+                OPTS=$(sed -n -e "s/^\s*Test-Args-Hints:\s*//pi" <<< "$DESC")
+            else
+                OPTS=
+            fi
+
+            # process Test-App-Hints
+            if [[ app =~ $SUPPORTED_HINTS ]]; then
+                APP_NAME=$(sed -n -e "s/^\s*Test-App-Hints:\s*//pi" <<< "$DESC")
+            fi
+
+            # process Test-App-Args-Hints
+            if [[ app-args =~ $SUPPORTED_HINTS ]]; then
+                APP_ARGS=$(sed -n -e "s/^\s*Test-App-Args-Hints:\s*//pi" <<< "$DESC")
+            fi
+
+            # stop at the first valid Test-Hints: string
+            break
+        fi
+    else
+        break
+    fi
+    COMMIT="${COMMIT}^"
+done
+
+DIR="$(cd ..; pwd)"
+BASEDIR=/usr/share/dci-openshift-agent
+export DCI_SILENT=1
+
+cd "$DIR" || exit 1
+
+# shellcheck disable=SC2086
+dci-queue schedule --block -C "$DCI_QUEUE" -- env DCI_SILENT=$DCI_SILENT UPGRADE_ARGS="$UPGRADE_ARGS" RES=@RESOURCE APP_NAME=$APP_NAME APP_ARGS="$APP_ARGS" $BASEDIR/test-runner $VIRT $FORCE_CHECK $TAG $UPGRADE $NO_COMMENT $DIR "$@" $OPTS
+
+# dci-merge.sh ends here