diff --git a/.github/workflows/ci-cd.yml b/.github/workflows/ci-cd.yml
index b721f1d0..6bd985a2 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/ci-cd.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/ci-cd.yml
@@ -13,7 +13,27 @@ defaults:
     shell: bash
 
 jobs:
+
+  download-task-template:
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    steps:
+
+    - name: Download task template
+      run: |
+        LATEST=$(curl -s https://api.github.com/repos/nipype/pydra-tasks-template/releases/latest | grep tag_name | awk -F\" '{print $4}')
+        curl -Lo pydra-tasks-template.tar.gz https://github.com/nipype/pydra-tasks-template/archive/refs/tags/$LATEST.tar.gz
+        tar xzf pydra-tasks-template.tar.gz
+        rm pydra-tasks-template.tar.gz
+        mv pydra-tasks-template-${LATEST#v} pydra-tasks-template
+        tar czf pydra-tasks-template.tar.gz pydra-tasks-template
+
+    - uses: actions/upload-artifact@v4
+      with:
+        name: tasks-template
+        path: pydra-tasks-template.tar.gz
+
   test:
+    needs: [download-task-template]
     strategy:
       matrix:
         os: [macos-latest, ubuntu-latest]
@@ -28,6 +48,15 @@ jobs:
     - name: Checkout
       uses: actions/checkout@v2
 
+    - name: Download the pydra-tasks-template artefact
+      uses: actions/download-artifact@v4
+      with:
+        name: tasks-template
+        path: .
+
+    - name: Extract the pydra-tasks-template
+      run: tar xzf pydra-tasks-template.tar.gz
+
     - name: Unset header
       # checkout@v2 adds a header that makes branch protection report errors
       # because the Github action bot is not a collaborator on the repo
@@ -64,7 +93,9 @@ jobs:
       run: python3 -m pip install --break-system-packages .[test]
 
     - name: Pytest
-      run: pytest -vvs --cov nipype2pydra --cov-config .coveragerc --cov-report xml
+      run: >-
+        NIPYPE2PYDRA_PYDRA_TASK_TEMPLATE=$PWD/pydra-tasks-template
+        pytest -vvs --cov nipype2pydra --cov-config .coveragerc --cov-report xml
 
     - name: Upload coverage to Codecov
       uses: codecov/codecov-action@v2
diff --git a/conftest.py b/conftest.py
index cce075c8..101906ab 100644
--- a/conftest.py
+++ b/conftest.py
@@ -40,6 +40,14 @@ def invoke(*args, catch_exceptions=catch_cli_exceptions, **kwargs):
     return invoke
 
 
+@pytest.fixture
+def tasks_template_args():
+    template = os.environ.get("NIPYPE2PYDRA_PYDRA_TASK_TEMPLATE", None)
+    if template:
+        return ["--task-template", template]
+    return []
+
+
 # For debugging in IDE's don't catch raised exceptions and let the IDE
 # break at it
 if os.getenv("_PYTEST_RAISE", "0") != "0":
diff --git a/nipype2pydra/pkg_gen/tests/test_pkg_gen.py b/nipype2pydra/pkg_gen/tests/test_pkg_gen.py
index 21115f5c..83a0c16a 100644
--- a/nipype2pydra/pkg_gen/tests/test_pkg_gen.py
+++ b/nipype2pydra/pkg_gen/tests/test_pkg_gen.py
@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ def pkg_gen_spec_file(request):
     return EXAMPLE_PKG_GEN_DIR.joinpath(*request.param.split("-")).with_suffix(".yaml")
 
 
-def test_pkg_gen(pkg_gen_spec_file, cli_runner, tmp_path):
+def test_pkg_gen(pkg_gen_spec_file, cli_runner, tmp_path, tasks_template_args):
     outputs_dir = tmp_path / "output-dir"
     outputs_dir.mkdir()
 
@@ -24,6 +24,7 @@ def test_pkg_gen(pkg_gen_spec_file, cli_runner, tmp_path):
         [
             str(pkg_gen_spec_file),
             str(outputs_dir),
-        ],
+        ]
+        + tasks_template_args,
     )
     assert result.exit_code == 0, show_cli_trace(result)
diff --git a/nipype2pydra/tests/test_package.py b/nipype2pydra/tests/test_package.py
index be625c2a..1b8865b2 100644
--- a/nipype2pydra/tests/test_package.py
+++ b/nipype2pydra/tests/test_package.py
@@ -33,7 +33,7 @@ def package_spec(request):
 
 
 @pytest.mark.xfail(reason="Fails due to missing dependencies on PyPI")
-def test_package_complete(package_spec, cli_runner, tmp_path):
+def test_package_complete(package_spec, cli_runner, tmp_path, tasks_template_args):
     pkg_name = package_spec.stem
     repo_output = tmp_path / "repo"
     repo_output.mkdir()
@@ -43,7 +43,8 @@ def test_package_complete(package_spec, cli_runner, tmp_path):
         [
             str(package_spec),
             str(repo_output),
-        ],
+        ]
+        + tasks_template_args,
     )
     assert result.exit_code == 0, show_cli_trace(result)
     pkg_root = repo_output / f"pydra-{pkg_name}"