diff --git a/sky130/Makefile.in b/sky130/Makefile.in
index 9fabc6c..ed67f89 100644
--- a/sky130/Makefile.in
+++ b/sky130/Makefile.in
@@ -380,6 +380,8 @@
 	rm -f ${KLAYOUT_STAGING_A}/${SKY130A}.lyt
 	${CPP} ${SKY130A_DEFS} klayout/${TECH}.lyp > ${KLAYOUT_STAGING_A}/${SKY130A}.lyp
 	${CPP} ${SKY130A_DEFS} klayout/${TECH}.lyt > ${KLAYOUT_STAGING_A}/${SKY130A}.lyt
+	${CPP} ${SKY130A_DEFS} klayout/${TECH}.lydrc > ${KLAYOUT_STAGING_A}/${SKY130A}.lydrc
+	./custom/scripts/gen_run_drc.py -l ${KLAYOUT_STAGING_A}/${SKY130A}.lydrc -o ${KLAYOUT_STAGING_A}/${SKY130A}.drc
 
 openlane-a: openlane/common_pdn.tcl openlane/config.tcl openlane/sky130_fd_sc_hd/config.tcl  openlane/sky130_fd_sc_hs/config.tcl openlane/sky130_fd_sc_ms/config.tcl openlane/sky130_fd_sc_ls/config.tcl openlane/sky130_fd_sc_hdll/config.tcl openlane/sky130_osu_sc_t18/config.tcl
 	mkdir -p ${OPENLANETOP_STAGING_A}
diff --git a/sky130/custom/scripts/gen_run_drc.py b/sky130/custom/scripts/gen_run_drc.py
new file mode 100755
index 0000000..cc8c4c0
--- /dev/null
+++ b/sky130/custom/scripts/gen_run_drc.py
@@ -0,0 +1,54 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+# Copyright 2020 Efabless Corporation
+#
+# Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+# you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+# You may obtain a copy of the License at
+#
+#      http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+#
+# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+# distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+# WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+# See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+# limitations under the License.
+
+# This script is for the sake of DRC batch running, since batch running only requires the text section of .lydrc
+# I thought it would be better to have open_pdks handle this in a case by case basis (pdk by pdk) instead of having
+# that code somewhwere in OpenLANE as this is more PDK related.
+
+import os
+import argparse
+
+
+parser = argparse.ArgumentParser(
+    description='The script parses a lydrc klayout xml database and extracts the runnable text section inside it')
+
+parser.add_argument('--lydrc', '-l',required=True,
+                    help='lydrc klayout xml database.')
+
+parser.add_argument('--output_script', '-o',required=True,
+                help="outputs the script to be used to run klayout drc.")
+
+
+args = parser.parse_args()
+lydrc = args.lydrc
+output_script = args.output_script
+
+def cleanup(text):
+    return str(text).replace("&gt;",">").replace("&lt;","<").replace("&amp;","&")
+
+def make_verbose(text):
+    return str(text).replace("verbose(false)","verbose(true)")
+
+if(os.path.exists(lydrc)):
+    lydrcFileOpener = open(lydrc, "r", encoding="utf-8")
+    if lydrcFileOpener.mode == 'r':
+        lydrcContent = lydrcFileOpener.read()
+    lydrcFileOpener.close()
+    sections = lydrcContent.split("<text>")
+    if len(sections) == 2:
+        text = sections[1].split("</text>")[0]
+        output_scriptFileOpener = open(output_script,"w", encoding="utf-8")
+        output_scriptFileOpener.write(make_verbose(cleanup(text)))
+        output_scriptFileOpener.close()