diff --git a/.gitlab/ci/code_quality/cpp.gitlab-ci.yml b/.gitlab/ci/code_quality/cpp.gitlab-ci.yml
index 24c1d8b9076ce60a703b499eb5322765324065a9..8e3c912a74d5bfb102559a37c1340c78153b3676 100644
--- a/.gitlab/ci/code_quality/cpp.gitlab-ci.yml
+++ b/.gitlab/ci/code_quality/cpp.gitlab-ci.yml
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ code_quality:static_analysis:cpp:
     - static_analysis
   before_script : 
     - !reference [.retrieve_deps:apt, script]
-    - apt-get install -y cppcheck python-is-python3
+    - apt-get install -y cppcheck python-is-python3 python3-pip  
     - python -m pip install Pygments
     - python -m pip install -U cppcheck_codequality
 
@@ -70,9 +70,11 @@ code_quality:code_format:cpp:
     - ./llvm.sh $CLANG_VERSION
     - apt-get install -y -qq clang-format-$CLANG_VERSION
   script: 
-    - echo "Ensuring that all cpp files modified in previous commit are correctly formatted. If not, this job will fail."
+    - echo "Retrieving all cpp/hpp files that differ from dev branch."
+    - echo "Ensuring that all these files are correctly formatted. If not, this job will fail."
     - modified_files=$(git diff --name-only HEAD origin/dev) # change "dev" to $CI_DEFAULT_BRANCH when whole codebase is formatted
     - modified_CXX_files=$(echo "$modified_files" | grep -Ei '\.(h|c|hpp|cpp|cu)$' || true)
+    - echo "modified CXX files :\ $modified_CXX_files"
     - >
       if [[ -n "$modified_CXX_files" ]]; then
         CLANG_OUTPUT=$(clang-format-$CLANG_VERSION --style=file:.clang-format --dry-run $modified_CXX_files || true )
diff --git a/.gitlab/ci/code_quality/python.gitlab-ci.yml b/.gitlab/ci/code_quality/python.gitlab-ci.yml
index 684332e147ccb11316c82b4df99595b2fe958e3e..a1b1bfbbd74f0c7ebd9208cff20fb310ee2d808a 100644
--- a/.gitlab/ci/code_quality/python.gitlab-ci.yml
+++ b/.gitlab/ci/code_quality/python.gitlab-ci.yml
@@ -67,16 +67,19 @@ code_quality:code_format:python:
     - pip install ruff
 
   script: 
-    - echo "Ensuring that all python files modified in previous commit are correctly formatted. If not, this job will fail."
+    - echo "Retrieving all python files that differ from dev branch."
+    - echo "Ensuring that all these files are correctly formatted. If not, this job will fail."
     - modified_files=$(git diff --name-only HEAD origin/dev) # change "dev" to $CI_DEFAULT_BRANCH when whole codebase is formatted
     - modified_python_files=$(echo $modified_files | grep ".py$\|.ipynb$" || true )
+    - echo "Modified python files $modified_python_files."
     - >
-      if [[ -n $modified_python_files ]]; then
+      if [[ -n "$modified_python_files" ]]; then
         python_files_to_format=$(ruff format --check $modified_python_files)
-        python_files_to_format=$(( $python_files_to_format != "" ? $python_files_to_format : ""))
+        python_files_to_format=$(( "$python_files_to_format" != "" ? $python_files_to_format : ""))
         echo "PYTHON FILES TO FORMAT :"
         echo "$python_files_to_format"
       fi
+  after_script:
     - >
       if [[ "$python_files_to_format" != "" ]]; then
         echo "You pushed unformatted files, setup a code formatter before pushing your code."