diff --git a/script/lib/squawk.toml b/script/lib/squawk.toml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..1090e38286
--- /dev/null
+++ b/script/lib/squawk.toml
@@ -0,0 +1,4 @@
+excluded_rules = [
+    "prefer-big-int",
+    "prefer-bigint-over-int",
+]
diff --git a/script/squawk b/script/squawk
index 0fb3e5a332..68977645d0 100755
--- a/script/squawk
+++ b/script/squawk
@@ -8,13 +8,12 @@ set -e
 
 if [ -z "$GITHUB_BASE_REF" ]; then
   echo 'Not a pull request, skipping squawk modified migrations linting'
-  return 0
+  exit
 fi
 
 SQUAWK_VERSION=0.26.0
 SQUAWK_BIN="./target/squawk-$SQUAWK_VERSION"
-SQUAWK_ARGS="--assume-in-transaction"
-
+SQUAWK_ARGS="--assume-in-transaction --config script/lib/squawk.toml"
 
 if  [ ! -f "$SQUAWK_BIN" ]; then
   curl -L -o "$SQUAWK_BIN" "https://github.com/sbdchd/squawk/releases/download/v$SQUAWK_VERSION/squawk-darwin-x86_64"