diff --git a/.github/workflows/avocado-code.yml b/.github/workflows/avocado-code.yml
index 03b467da55ba..f14a7bc69ef1 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/avocado-code.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/avocado-code.yml
@@ -30,6 +30,8 @@ jobs:
             "/package-lock.json" \
             "/cadl/examples/" \
             '(?=/examples/)(?!(?:/stable/|/preview/))' \
+            "/\\.github/" \
+            "/eng/" \
           --includePaths \
             "data-plane" \
             "resource-manager"