diff --git a/.github/workflows/downstream.yml b/.github/workflows/downstream.yml
index 74a3643e8..b8d464061 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/downstream.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/downstream.yml
@@ -73,3 +73,4 @@ jobs:
         - linux: weldx
         - linux: sunpy
         - linux: dkist
+        - linux: abacusutils
diff --git a/tox.ini b/tox.ini
index 326489c2a..9161ab209 100644
--- a/tox.ini
+++ b/tox.ini
@@ -324,3 +324,26 @@ commands =
 # https://github.com/sunpy/sunpy/pull/7432
     pytest dkist --benchmark-skip \
         -W "ignore::asdf.exceptions.AsdfManifestURIMismatchWarning"
+
+[testenv:abacusutils]
+change_dir = {env_tmp_dir}
+allowlist_externals =
+    git
+    bash
+extras =
+commands_pre =
+    bash -c "pip freeze -q | grep 'asdf @' > {env_tmp_dir}/requirements.txt"
+    git clone https://github.com/abacusorg/abacusutils.git
+    pip install -vU setuptools wheel scipy Cython 'numpy<2'  # for classy and corrfunc
+    pip install --no-build-isolation classy corrfunc
+    pip install -e abacusutils[test]
+    pip install -r {env_tmp_dir}/requirements.txt
+# make an empty pytest.ini to prevent pytest from crawling up
+# one directory and finding the pytest configuration for the asdf
+# repo clone
+    bash -c "echo '' > pytest.ini"
+    pip freeze
+commands =
+# only running a subset of tests since only a portion of abacusutils
+# relies on asdf
+    pytest abacusutils/tests/test_data.py