diff --git a/.github/workflows/unit_tests.yaml b/.github/workflows/unit_tests.yaml
index a96e355..eed7bbe 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/unit_tests.yaml
+++ b/.github/workflows/unit_tests.yaml
@@ -2,11 +2,13 @@ name: Unit Tests
 on:
   workflow_dispatch:
   push:
-    branches-ignore:
-      - '**'
+    branches: [ main, dev, stage ]
   pull_request:
     branches: [ main, dev, stage ]
 
+permissions:
+  contents: write
+
 jobs:
   UnitTest:
     runs-on: ubuntu-latest
@@ -70,6 +72,36 @@ jobs:
       - name: Check coverage
         run: coverage report --fail-under=85
 
+      - name: Generate coverage badge
+        run: |
+          pip install coverage-badge
+          mkdir -p badge-out
+          coverage-badge -f -o badge-out/coverage.svg
+
+      - name: Publish coverage badge to badges branch
+        env:
+          GITHUB_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
+        run: |
+          set -e
+          cp badge-out/coverage.svg /tmp/coverage.svg
+          git config user.name  "github-actions[bot]"
+          git config user.email "41898282+github-actions[bot]@users.noreply.github.com"
+          git fetch origin badges || true
+          if git show-ref --verify --quiet refs/remotes/origin/badges; then
+            git checkout badges
+          else
+            git checkout --orphan badges
+            git rm -rf . >/dev/null 2>&1 || true
+          fi
+          cp /tmp/coverage.svg coverage.svg
+          git add coverage.svg
+          if ! git diff --cached --quiet; then
+            git commit -m "chore: update coverage badge"
+            git push "https://x-access-token:${GITHUB_TOKEN}@github.com/${GITHUB_REPOSITORY}.git" HEAD:badges
+          else
+            echo "No badge changes to commit."
+          fi
+
       # Optional: keep the log as a build artifact for easy download
       - name: Upload test log artifact
         uses: actions/upload-artifact@v4
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 4a39ea8..09053b0 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -1,5 +1,10 @@
 # TDEI-python-osw-validation
 
+[![Unit Tests](https://github.com/TaskarCenterAtUW/TDEI-python-osw-validation/actions/workflows/unit_tests.yaml/badge.svg)](https://github.com/TaskarCenterAtUW/TDEI-python-osw-validation/actions/workflows/unit_tests.yaml)
+![Coverage](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/TaskarCenterAtUW/TDEI-python-osw-validation/badges/coverage.svg)
+[![python-osw-validation](https://img.shields.io/badge/dynamic/regex?url=https%3A%2F%2Fraw.githubusercontent.com%2FTaskarCenterAtUW%2FTDEI-python-osw-validation%2Fmain%2Frequirements.txt&search=%28%3Fm%29%5Epython-osw-validation%3D%3D%28%5B%5E%5Cr%5Cn%5D%2B%29&replace=%241&label=python-osw-validation&color=blue)](https://pypi.org/project/python-osw-validation/)
+[![python-ms-core](https://img.shields.io/badge/dynamic/regex?url=https%3A%2F%2Fraw.githubusercontent.com%2FTaskarCenterAtUW%2FTDEI-python-osw-validation%2Fmain%2Frequirements.txt&search=%28%3Fm%29%5Epython-ms-core%3D%3D%28%5B%5E%5Cr%5Cn%5D%2B%29&replace=%241&label=python-ms-core&color=blue)](https://pypi.org/project/python-ms-core/)
+
 ## Introduction 
 Service to Validate the OSW files that is uploaded. At the moment, the service does the following:
 - Listens to the topic which is mentioned in `.env` file for any new message (that is triggered when a file is uploaded), example  `UPLOAD_TOPIC=osw-upload` 
diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index d708be6..77d79f1 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -4,4 +4,4 @@ python-ms-core==0.0.25
 uvicorn==0.20.0
 html_testRunner==1.2.1
 geopandas==0.14.4
-python-osw-validation==0.3.5
+python-osw-validation==0.4.2