diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index c9f7256f17f4..87c89eb56787 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -123,6 +123,9 @@ deps_upgrade_project: .state/docker-build-base
 translations: .state/docker-build-base
 	docker compose run --rm base bin/translations
 
+patch: .state/docker-build-base
+	docker compose run --rm base bin/patch
+
 requirements/%.txt: requirements/%.in
 	docker compose run --rm base pip-compile --generate-hashes --output-file=$@ $<
 
@@ -266,4 +269,4 @@ codeql-test: .state/codeql-packs
 codeql-clean:
 	rm -rf dev/codeql .state/codeql-db .state/codeql-packs .state/codeql-cli
 
-.PHONY: default build serve resetdb initdb shell dbshell tests dev-docs user-docs deps deps_upgrade_all deps_upgrade_project clean purge debug stop compile-pot runmigrations checkdb codeql codeql-db codeql-rebuild codeql-analyze codeql-test codeql-clean
+.PHONY: default build serve resetdb initdb shell dbshell tests dev-docs user-docs deps deps_upgrade_all deps_upgrade_project clean purge debug stop compile-pot runmigrations checkdb codeql codeql-db codeql-rebuild codeql-analyze codeql-test codeql-clean patch
diff --git a/bin/patch b/bin/patch
new file mode 100755
index 000000000000..f5cd0829978f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/bin/patch
@@ -0,0 +1,22 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env bash
+set -ex
+
+
+# NOTE: The ordering of these is important!
+# NOTE: We do this as by composing the scripts rather than composing the make
+#       targets so that they can all run in the same docker container and we
+#       dont end up spinning up N docker containers.
+
+# We reformat first, as this can automatically fix some of the issues that
+# linting catches.
+bin/reformat
+
+# Then we lint, because if there are any remaining issues, we want to catch them
+# before doing anything else because fixing them may change line numbers so the
+# later steps may not be valid after the fix anyways.
+bin/lint
+
+# Then we extract our translatable strings, this embeds line numbers of where it
+# finds theose strings, so this comes last because if the above changes the
+# line numbers at all, this would need to be re-ran.
+bin/translations
diff --git a/docs/dev/development/getting-started.md b/docs/dev/development/getting-started.md
index ee25a35bdd1b..261a3383440b 100644
--- a/docs/dev/development/getting-started.md
+++ b/docs/dev/development/getting-started.md
@@ -705,6 +705,13 @@ This is useful in scenarios like passing a
 TESTARGS="--randomly-seed=1234" make tests
 ```
 
+You can run the common tools (formaters, linting, translations) to make sure
+that a patch is ready by running:
+
+```shell
+make patch
+```
+
 You can run linters, programs that check the code, with:
 
 ```shell