diff --git a/.github/workflows/validateActions.yml b/.github/workflows/validateActions.yml
index ff6a28a..f3684b2 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/validateActions.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/validateActions.yml
@@ -1,14 +1,11 @@
+# Note: This workflow is configured to run on all pull requests throughout the Expensify org, not just this repo.
+# That has a few consequences:
+#    - We need to checkout the repo it's running on, and not just the GitHub-Actions repo
+#    - branch and path matching does not work in the workflow layer. From the docs: https://docs.github.com/en/enterprise-cloud@latest/repositories/configuring-branches-and-merges-in-your-repository/managing-rulesets/available-rules-for-rulesets#supported-event-triggers
+#        > Any filters you specify for the supported events are ignored - for example, branches, branches-ignore, paths, types and so on. The workflow is only triggered, and is always triggered, by the default activity types of the supported events
 name: Validate Github Actions and Workflows
 
-on:
-  pull_request:
-    types: [opened, synchronize]
-    branches-ignore: [staging, production]
-    paths:
-      - '.github/workflows/*.yml'
-      - '.github/workflows/*.yaml'
-      - '**/action.yml'
-      - '**/action.yaml'
+on: pull_request
 
 jobs:
   validateSchemas:
diff --git a/scripts/actionlint.sh b/scripts/actionlint.sh
index d2089fe..84ceb99 100755
--- a/scripts/actionlint.sh
+++ b/scripts/actionlint.sh
@@ -21,6 +21,14 @@ source "$SCRIPT_DIR/shellUtils.sh"
 
 title "Lint Github Actions via actionlint (https://github.com/rhysd/actionlint)"
 
+# Make sure there are workflows or actions to check before downloading and running actionlint
+WORKFLOWS="$(find "$REPO_ROOT/.github/workflows" -type f \( -name "*.yml" -o -name "*.yaml" \))"
+ACTIONS="$(find "$REPO_ROOT" -type f \( -name "action.yml" -o -name "action.yaml" \))"
+if [[ -z "$WORKFLOWS" && -z "$ACTIONS" ]]; then
+    success "No workflows or actions to check!"
+    exit 0
+fi
+
 # Get the actionlint tarball name from the checksums file, used both for downloading and verifying checksums
 OS="$(uname)"
 ARCH="$(uname -m)"