diff --git a/.github/workflows/check.yml b/.github/workflows/check.yml
index 8462f34514..8cb027b3e0 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/check.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/check.yml
@@ -1,5 +1,9 @@
 name: Checks
-on: [pull_request, push]
+on:
+  push:
+  pull_request:
+    branches: [master]
+  workflow_dispatch:
 
 concurrency:
   group: ${{ github.workflow }}-${{ github.event.pull_request.number || github.ref }}
diff --git a/.github/workflows/codeql-analysis.yml b/.github/workflows/codeql-analysis.yml
index 4fbb2b5b8a..b6f37043ae 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/codeql-analysis.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/codeql-analysis.yml
@@ -12,10 +12,11 @@
 name: "CodeQL"
 
 on:
-  push: null
-  pull_request: null
+  push:
+  pull_request:
   schedule:
     - cron: "26 6 * * 6"
+  workflow_dispatch:
 
 concurrency:
   group: ${{ github.workflow }}-${{ github.event.pull_request.number || github.ref }}
diff --git a/.github/workflows/docs.yml b/.github/workflows/docs.yml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..5015de9cdd
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.github/workflows/docs.yml
@@ -0,0 +1,45 @@
+name: Docs Tests
+
+on:
+  push:
+    paths:
+      - "docs/**"
+      - "discord/**"
+      - "test/**"
+      - "requirements/**"
+  pull_request:
+    paths:
+      - "docs/**"
+      - "discord/**"
+      - "test/**"
+      - "requirements/**"
+  schedule:
+    - cron: "0 0 * * *"
+  workflow_dispatch:
+
+jobs:
+  docs:
+    name: "Build Docs"
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    steps:
+      - uses: actions/checkout@v4
+      - name: Set up Python 3.8
+        uses: actions/setup-python@v5
+        with:
+          python-version: "3.8"
+          cache: "pip"
+          cache-dependency-path: "requirements/docs.txt"
+          check-latest: true
+      - name: Install dependencies
+        run: |
+          python -m pip install -U pip
+          pip install ".[docs]"
+      - name: Check Links
+        if: github.event_name == 'schedule'
+        run: |
+          cd docs
+          make linkcheck
+      - name: Compile to html
+        run: |
+          cd docs
+          make html
diff --git a/.github/workflows/lint.yml b/.github/workflows/lint.yml
index d7238f4c3c..a2b500e271 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/lint.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/lint.yml
@@ -1,5 +1,20 @@
 name: Type Check and Lint
-on: [push, pull_request]
+
+on:
+  push:
+    paths:
+      - "docs/**"
+      - "discord/**"
+      - "test/**"
+      - "requirements/**"
+  pull_request:
+    branches: [master]
+    paths:
+      - "docs/**"
+      - "discord/**"
+      - "test/**"
+      - "requirements/**"
+  workflow_dispatch:
 
 concurrency:
   group: ${{ github.workflow }}-${{ github.event.pull_request.number || github.ref }}
diff --git a/.github/workflows/test.yml b/.github/workflows/test.yml
index aa77843552..34ef3819a5 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/test.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/test.yml
@@ -2,9 +2,19 @@ name: Unit Tests
 
 on:
   push:
+    paths:
+      - "discord/**"
+      - "test/**"
+      - "requirements/**"
   pull_request:
+    branches: [master]
+    paths:
+      - "discord/**"
+      - "test/**"
+      - "requirements/**"
   schedule:
     - cron: "0 0 * * *"
+  workflow_dispatch:
 
 concurrency:
   group: ${{ github.workflow }}-${{ github.event.pull_request.number || github.ref }}
@@ -12,6 +22,7 @@ concurrency:
 
 jobs:
   pytest:
+    name: "Test build with matrix"
     runs-on: ${{ matrix.os }}
     strategy:
       matrix:
@@ -45,27 +56,3 @@ jobs:
           flake8 . --count --select=E9,F63,F7,F82 --show-source --statistics
           # exit-zero treats all errors as warnings.
           flake8 . --count --exit-zero --max-complexity=10 --max-line-length=120 --statistics
-  docs:
-    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
-    steps:
-      - uses: actions/checkout@v4
-      - name: Set up Python ${{ matrix.python-version }}
-        uses: actions/setup-python@v5
-        with:
-          python-version: "3.8"
-          cache: "pip"
-          cache-dependency-path: "requirements/docs.txt"
-          check-latest: true
-      - name: Install dependencies
-        run: |
-          python -m pip install -U pip
-          pip install ".[docs]"
-      - name: Check Links
-        if: github.event_name == 'schedule'
-        run: |
-          cd docs
-          make linkcheck
-      - name: Compile to html
-        run: |
-          cd docs
-          make html
diff --git a/.github/workflows/todo.yml b/.github/workflows/todo.yml
index 508f34218f..9f827fcfd3 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/todo.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/todo.yml
@@ -1,5 +1,11 @@
 name: Check TODO
-on: [push, pull_request]
+
+on:
+  push:
+  pull_request:
+    branches: [master]
+  workflow_dispatch:
+
 jobs:
   todo:
     runs-on: ubuntu-latest