diff --git a/.Rbuildignore b/.Rbuildignore
index 531fcbbf..8be0482a 100644
--- a/.Rbuildignore
+++ b/.Rbuildignore
@@ -27,4 +27,5 @@
 ^admiralci.*\.tgz$
 ^staged_dependencies.yaml$
 ^README.Rmd$
-^.devcontainer
\ No newline at end of file
+^.devcontainer
+^install_devel_deps.R
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/.github/workflows/check-templates.yml b/.github/workflows/check-templates.yml
index 059c44ae..5fc7a24b 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/check-templates.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/check-templates.yml
@@ -10,16 +10,6 @@ on:
           - '4.1'
           - '4.2'
           - '4.3'
-      push-templates-data:
-        description: 'Push generated templates data to pharmaverseadam repo'
-        default: false
-        required: false
-        type: boolean
-      exclude-templates-data:
-        description: 'List of data generated by templates to exclude (templates script will run, but results will not be push to pharmaverseadam repo) - comma seperated list'
-        default: ''
-        required: false
-        type: string
   workflow_call:
     inputs:
       r-version:
@@ -27,39 +17,7 @@ on:
         default: '4.1'
         required: false
         type: string
-      push-templates-data:
-        description: 'Push generated templates data to pharmaverseadam repo'
-        default: false
-        required: false
-        type: boolean
-      exclude-templates-data:
-        description: 'List of data generated by templates to exclude (templates script will run, but results will not be push to pharmaverseadam repo) - comma seperated list'
-        default: ''
-        required: false
-        type: string
 
-env:
-  # branch name for PR
-  source-branch: update_templates_data
-  repo: pharmaverseadam
-  target-branch: main
-  reviewers: >
-    {
-      "admiralonco": {
-        "reviewers": ["bundfussr", "manciniedoardo"]
-      },
-      "admiralophtha": {
-        "reviewers": ["manciniedoardo"]
-      },
-      "admiral": {
-        "reviewers": ["manciniedoardo", "bms63"]
-      },
-      "admiralvaccine": {
-        "reviewers": ["ahasoplakus", "arjoon-r", "manciniedoardo"]
-      }
-    }
-  # data folder name for templates
-  templates_data_folder: ./data/
 
 name: Check Templates
 
@@ -185,255 +143,3 @@ jobs:
             }
           }
         shell: Rscript {0}
-
-      - name: Add other data formats and suffixes, exclude data
-        if: inputs.push-templates-data
-        run: |
-          library(readxl)
-          library(zip)
-          loadRData <- function(fileName){
-            load(fileName)
-            get(ls()[ls() != "fileName"])
-          }
-          print(file.path("${{ github.workspace }}", "tmp"))
-          print(file.path(Sys.getenv("GITHUB_WORKSPACE"), "tmp"))
-          folder_path <- file.path(Sys.getenv("GITHUB_WORKSPACE"), "tmp")
-          rda_files <- list.files(path = folder_path, pattern = "\\.rda$")
-
-          ex_files <- unlist(strsplit("${{ inputs.exclude-templates-data }}", ",")) # files to exclude
-
-          for (rda_file in rda_files) {
-            # delete file if part of inputs.exclude-templates-data
-            if (gsub("\\.rda$", "", rda_file) %in% ex_files) {
-              file.remove(file.path(folder_path, rda_file))
-              cat("Deleted:", rda_file, "\n")
-            }
-            else {
-              print(sprintf("converting file %s", rda_file))
-              data <- loadRData(file.path(folder_path, rda_file))
-              suffix <- gsub("pharmaverse/admiral", "", "${{ github.repository }}")
-              if (nchar(suffix) > 0) {
-                rda_file_renamed <- gsub("\\.rda$", sprintf("_%s.rda", suffix), rda_file)
-                csv_file <- gsub("\\.rda$", sprintf("_%s.csv", suffix), rda_file)
-                file.rename(file.path(folder_path, rda_file), file.path(folder_path, rda_file_renamed))
-              }
-              else {
-                csv_file <- gsub("\\.rda$", ".csv", rda_file)
-                rda_file_renamed <- rda_file
-              }
-              write.csv(data, file = file.path(folder_path, csv_file), row.names = FALSE)
-
-              # rename content of rda file
-              rda_var <- gsub("\\.rda$", "", rda_file_renamed)
-              print(rda_var)
-              assign(rda_var, data)
-              do.call(save, list(rda_var, file = file.path(folder_path, sprintf("%s.rda", rda_var)), compress = "bzip2"))
-
-              # create associated documentation inside R folder
-              dataset_name <- gsub("\\.rda$", "", rda_file_renamed)
-              doc_string <- paste(
-                sprintf("#' Dataset %s", dataset_name),
-                "#'",
-                sprintf("#' %s dataset", dataset_name),
-                "#'",
-                sprintf("#' @name %s", dataset_name),
-                "#' @docType data",
-                sprintf("#' @format A data frame with %s columns:", ncol(data)),
-                "#'   \\describe{",
-                paste(sapply(names(data), function(col_name) {
-                  paste(sprintf("#'     \\item{ %s }{%s}", col_name, col_name))
-                }, USE.NAMES = FALSE), collapse="\n"),
-                "#'   }",
-                "#'", sprintf("#' @source Generated from ${{ github.repository }}."),
-                "#' @references None",
-                "#'", sprintf("#' @examples\n#' data(\"%s\")", dataset_name),
-                sep = '\n',
-                sprintf("\"%s\"", dataset_name)
-              )
-
-              doc_dir <- "datasets_doc"
-              if (!file.exists(doc_dir)) {
-                dir.create(doc_dir, recursive = TRUE)
-              }
-              writeLines(doc_string, con = file.path(doc_dir, paste0(dataset_name, ".R")))
-            }
-          }
-        shell: Rscript {0}
-
-      # zip templates data
-      - name: zip artifacts data
-        if: inputs.push-templates-data
-        run: |
-          find "$GITHUB_WORKSPACE/tmp" -type f \( -name "*.rda" -o -name "*.csv" \) -exec zip -j "$GITHUB_WORKSPACE/data.zip" {} \;
-          find "$GITHUB_WORKSPACE/datasets_doc" -type f \( -name "*.R" \) -exec zip -j "$GITHUB_WORKSPACE/doc.zip" {} \;
-
-      # store templates data as artifacts
-      - name: Archive templates data
-        if: inputs.push-templates-data
-        uses: actions/upload-artifact@v3
-        with:
-          name: data_templates
-          path: ${{ github.workspace }}/data.zip
-
-      # store templates data as artifacts
-      - name: Archive doc
-        if: inputs.push-templates-data
-        uses: actions/upload-artifact@v3
-        with:
-          name: doc_templates
-          path: ${{ github.workspace }}/doc.zip
-
-      - name: Checkout repo (PR) 🛎
-        if: inputs.push-templates-data
-        uses: actions/checkout@v3
-        with:
-          ref: main
-          repository: "${{ github.repository_owner }}/${{ env.repo }}"
-          fetch-depth: 2
-          token: ${{ secrets.PHARMAVERSE_BOT }}
-
-      - name: Add safe directory
-        if: inputs.push-templates-data
-        run: |
-          git config --global --add safe.directory "${GITHUB_WORKSPACE}"
-        shell: bash
-
-      - name: Download data artifacts
-        if: inputs.push-templates-data
-        uses: actions/download-artifact@v3
-        with:
-          name: data_templates
-
-      - name: Download doc artifacts
-        if: inputs.push-templates-data
-        uses: actions/download-artifact@v3
-        with:
-          name: doc_templates
-
-      # detect diffs om templates data
-      - name: Check templates changes
-        if: inputs.push-templates-data
-        id: changes
-        run: |
-          head_data_folder=$(git ls-tree -r HEAD data) # check if data folder exists on remote main branch
-          unzip -o "${GITHUB_WORKSPACE}/data.zip" -d "${GITHUB_WORKSPACE}/inst/extdata/"
-          unzip -o "${GITHUB_WORKSPACE}/doc.zip" -d "${GITHUB_WORKSPACE}/R"
-          # move every rda files inside data folder
-          mkdir -p data
-          for rda_file in inst/extdata/*.rda; do
-            filename=$(basename "$rda_file")
-            mv "$rda_file" "data/$filename"
-          done
-          if [ -z "${head_data_folder}" ]
-          then {
-            echo "data folder not existing on main branch yet - init mode (all templates data files will be pushed)"
-            diff_files=$(ls "${GITHUB_WORKSPACE}/data")
-          } else {
-            git add data R
-            diff_files_data=$(git status data | grep 'data/.*\.rda$')
-            diff_files_doc=$(git status R | grep 'R/.*\.R$')
-            diff_files="${diff_files_data}${diff_files_doc}"
-          }
-          fi
-          if [ -z "$diff_files" ]
-          then {
-            echo "No changes detected after running templates. Stop here"
-            echo "diff=false" >> $GITHUB_OUTPUT
-          } else {
-            echo "Changes detected, new PR will be created"
-            echo "list of files with new updates: $diff_files"
-            echo "diff=true" >> $GITHUB_OUTPUT
-          }
-          fi
-        shell: bash {0}
-
-      - name: Generate man pages
-        if: inputs.push-templates-data
-        run: |
-          Rscript -e "roxygen2::roxygenize('.', roclets = c('rd', 'collate', 'namespace'))"
-          git add man
-        shell: bash {0}
-
-      - name: Update spellchecks list
-        if: inputs.push-templates-data
-        run: |
-          spelling::update_wordlist(pkg=".", confirm=FALSE)
-        shell: Rscript {0}
-
-      - name: set source-branch name
-        if: inputs.push-templates-data
-        id: branch
-        run: |
-          repo_name=$(basename "${{ github.repository }}")
-          source_br="${{ env.source-branch }}_${repo_name}"
-          source_grep=$(git branch -a | grep $source_br)
-          if [ -z $source_grep ]; then branch_exists=false; else branch_exists=true; fi
-          echo "source-branch=$source_br" >> $GITHUB_OUTPUT
-          echo "branch-exists=$branch_exists" >> $GITHUB_OUTPUT
-          warn_msg="WARNING:: the branch $source_br already exists in pharmaverseadam, please merge it and delete it, and re-execute this job"
-          if [ '${{ steps.changes.outputs.diff }}' == 'true' ] && [ '$branch_exists' == 'true' ]; then echo "$warn_msg"; fi
-        shell: bash {0}
-
-      # if diff detected, push changes
-      - name: Commit and push changes in {{ env.repo }}
-        if: ${{ inputs.push-templates-data && steps.changes.outputs.diff == 'true' && steps.branch.outputs.branch-exists == 'false' }}
-        uses: stefanzweifel/git-auto-commit-action@v4
-        with:
-          commit_message: templates data updates from ${{ github.repository }}
-          file_pattern: 'inst/extdata/* data/* R/* inst/WORDLIST'
-          commit_user_name: pharmaverse-bot
-          commit_user_email: 113703390+pharmaverse-bot@users.noreply.github.com
-          branch: "${{ steps.branch.outputs.source-branch }}"
-          create_branch: true
-
-      - name: Create Pull Request
-        if: ${{ inputs.push-templates-data && steps.changes.outputs.diff == 'true' && steps.branch.outputs.branch-exists == 'false' }}
-        uses: actions/github-script@v6
-        with:
-          github-token: ${{ secrets.PHARMAVERSE_BOT }}
-          script: |
-            // Look for any open PRs
-            const repo_owner = "${{ github.repository_owner }}";
-            const target_repo_name = "${{ env.repo }}";
-            const result = await github.rest.pulls.list({
-              owner: repo_owner,
-              repo: target_repo_name,
-              state: "open"
-            })
-            let create_new_pr = true;
-            for (const pr of result.data) {
-              // Look for distinct PR branch name
-              if (pr.head.ref === "${{ steps.branch.outputs.source-branch }}") {
-                console.log("PR with head ref " + pr.head.ref + " already exists");
-                create_new_pr = false;
-                break;
-              }
-            }
-            // If no PR with distinguished branch name has been found
-            // create a new PR to track changes to renv.lock.
-            if (create_new_pr) {
-              console.log("Creating a new PR");
-              const result2 = await github.rest.pulls.create({
-                title: 'Templates data updates from ${{ github.repository }}',
-                owner: repo_owner,
-                repo: target_repo_name,
-                head: '${{ steps.branch.outputs.source-branch }}',
-                base: '${{ env.target-branch }}',
-                body: [
-                  'This PR has been automatically generated by ',
-                  'check-templates workflow from ${{ github.repository }}.',
-                  '\n\nPlease review the changes.'
-                ].join('')
-              });
-              // Assign reviewers to the PR
-              let rev = process.env.reviewers;
-              let reviewers_dict = JSON.parse(rev);
-              let current_repo_name_full = "${{ github.repository }}";
-              let current_repo_name = current_repo_name_full.split('/').pop();
-              const result3 = await github.rest.pulls.requestReviewers({
-                owner: repo_owner,
-                repo: target_repo_name,
-                pull_number: result2.data.number,
-                reviewers: reviewers_dict[current_repo_name]["reviewers"]
-              });
-            }
diff --git a/.github/workflows/push-docker-image.yml b/.github/workflows/push-docker-image.yml
index 5a90383e..df9c9c12 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/push-docker-image.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/push-docker-image.yml
@@ -105,29 +105,40 @@ jobs:
       packages: write
 
     steps:
-      - name: Checkout repo
-        uses: actions/checkout@v3
-        with:
-          fetch-depth: 0
-
-      - name: Set image specs
-        id: image_specs
-        run: |
-          package_name=$(grep "Package:" DESCRIPTION | awk '{print $NF}')
-          echo "image_name=$package_name-devel" >> $GITHUB_OUTPUT
     
       - name: Call deploy docker image action devel
         uses: insightsengineering/r-image-creator@v1
         with:
-          image-name: "${{ steps.image_specs.outputs.image_name }}"
+          image-name: "admiralci-devel"
           tag-latest: true
           base-image: "rocker/rstudio:devel"
           sysdeps: qpdf,libxt-dev,curl,npm,libicu-dev,libcurl4-openssl-dev,libssl-dev,make,zlib1g-dev,libfontconfig1-dev,libfreetype6-dev,libfribidi-dev,libharfbuzz-dev,libjpeg-dev,libpng-dev,libtiff-dev,pandoc,libxml2-dev,libgit2-dev,libgit2-dev,jq
-          description-file: "./DESCRIPTION"
+          description-file: "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/pharmaverse/admiral/main/DESCRIPTION"
           repository-owner: ${{ github.repository_owner }}
-          repo-user: ${{ github.actor }}  # pharmaverse-bot
-          repo-token: "${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}" # ${{ secrets.PHARMAVERSE_BOT }}
+          repo-user: ${{ github.actor }} 
+          repo-token: "${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}"
 
+  store_deps:
+    name: Store Deps
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    needs: [ deploy-image-devel ]
+    container:
+      image: "ghcr.io/pharmaverse/admiralci-devel:latest"
+    env:
+      GITHUB_PAT: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
+    steps:
+      ##################### BEGIN boilerplate steps #####################
+      - name: Store deps into csv file
+        id: branch-name
+        run: |
+          installed_packages <- as.data.frame(installed.packages())
+          write.csv(installed_packages, "/workspace/deps.csv", row.names = FALSE)
+        shell: Rscript {0}
+      - name: Upload deps.csv artifact
+        uses: actions/upload-artifact@v2
+        with:
+          name: deps
+          path: "/workspace/deps.csv"
 
 # refacto todo: image-name, sysdeps on get-renv-list job
 
diff --git a/install_devel_deps.R b/install_devel_deps.R
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..a2e473b9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/install_devel_deps.R
@@ -0,0 +1,9 @@
+# Read the dependencies from the CSV file
+dependencies <- read.csv("deps.csv", stringsAsFactors = FALSE)
+
+# Loop through the dependencies and reinstall packages with specific versions
+for (i in seq_len(nrow(dependencies))) {
+  dep_name <- dependencies[i, "Package"]
+  dep_version <- dependencies[i, "Version"]
+  install.packages(dep_name, type = "source", repos = NULL, version = dep_version)
+}