diff --git a/.github/workflows/clang-format.yml b/.github/workflows/clang-format.yml
deleted file mode 100644
index a01bada4..00000000
--- a/.github/workflows/clang-format.yml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,48 +0,0 @@
-name: Check formatting
-
-on:
-  pull_request:
-    paths:
-      - '**'
-      - '!.gitignore'
-      - '!*.md'
-      - '!.github/**'
-      - '.github/workflows/clang-format.yml'
-
-permissions:
-  contents: read
-  pull-requests: write
-
-jobs:
-  format-check:
-    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
-    steps:
-      - uses: actions/checkout@v6
-        with:
-          ref: ${{ github.event.pull_request.head.sha }}
-          fetch-depth: 0
- 
-      - name: Fetch base commit
-        run: git fetch origin ${{ github.event.pull_request.base.sha }}
- 
-      - name: Install clang-format-20
-        run: |
-          wget -qO- https://apt.llvm.org/llvm-snapshot.gpg.key | sudo tee /etc/apt/trusted.gpg.d/apt.llvm.org.asc
-          sudo add-apt-repository -y "deb http://apt.llvm.org/noble/ llvm-toolchain-noble-20 main"
-          sudo apt-get install -y -qq clang-format-20
- 
-      - uses: reviewdog/action-setup@v1
- 
-      - name: Check formatting on changed lines
-        env:
-          REVIEWDOG_GITHUB_API_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
-        run: |
-          git clang-format-20 --binary clang-format-20 \
-            --diff ${{ github.event.pull_request.base.sha }} -- \
-            '*.c' '*.cpp' '*.cc' '*.h' '*.hpp' \
-            | reviewdog \
-                -name="clang-format" \
-                -f=diff \
-                -reporter=github-pr-check \
-                -fail-level=error \
-                -filter-mode=added
diff --git a/.github/workflows/nightly-server.yml b/.github/workflows/nightly-server.yml
index 0fc20eb1..5450de9a 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/nightly-server.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/nightly-server.yml
@@ -5,12 +5,11 @@ on:
   push:
     branches:
     - 'main'
-    paths:
-      - '**'
-      - '!.gitignore'
-      - '!*.md'
-      - '!.github/**'
-      - '.github/workflows/nightly-server.yml'
+    paths-ignore:
+      - '.gitignore'
+      - '*.md'
+      - '.github/**'
+      - '!.github/workflows/nightly-server.yml'
 
 permissions:
   contents: write
diff --git a/.github/workflows/nightly.yml b/.github/workflows/nightly.yml
index a5b53be0..789db3e8 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/nightly.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/nightly.yml
@@ -5,12 +5,11 @@ on:
   push:
     branches:
     - 'main'
-    paths:
-      - '**'
-      - '!.gitignore'
-      - '!*.md'
-      - '!.github/**'
-      - '.github/workflows/nightly.yml'
+    paths-ignore:
+      - '.gitignore'
+      - '*.md'
+      - '.github/**'
+      - '!.github/workflows/nightly.yml'
 
 permissions:
   contents: write
diff --git a/.github/workflows/pull-request.yml b/.github/workflows/pull-request.yml
index 3b5398a0..9d57f4b4 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/pull-request.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/pull-request.yml
@@ -4,12 +4,10 @@ on:
   workflow_dispatch: 
   pull_request:
     types: [opened, reopened, synchronize]
-    paths:
-      - '**'
-      - '!.gitignore'
-      - '!*.md'
-      - '!.github/**'
-      - '.github/workflows/pull-request.yml'
+    paths-ignore:
+      - '.gitignore'
+      - '*.md'
+      - '.github/*.md'
 
 jobs:
   build: