diff --git a/.github/workflows/test-reports.yaml b/.github/workflows/test-reports.yaml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..a50c36e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.github/workflows/test-reports.yaml
@@ -0,0 +1,40 @@
+# Workflow derived from https://github.com/r-lib/actions/tree/v2/examples
+# Need help debugging build failures? Start at https://github.com/r-lib/actions#where-to-find-help
+on:
+  workflow_dispatch:
+  pull_request:
+    branches: [main, master]
+
+name: test reports
+
+concurrency:
+  group: ${{ github.workflow }}-${{ github.ref }}
+  cancel-in-progress: true
+
+jobs:
+  test-reports:
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    env:
+      GITHUB_PAT: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
+    steps:
+      - uses: actions/checkout@v3
+      - uses: r-lib/actions/setup-pandoc@v2
+      - uses: r-lib/actions/setup-r@v2
+        with:
+          use-public-rspm: true
+      - uses: r-lib/actions/setup-r-dependencies@v2
+        with:
+          extra-packages:
+            sodium # it would be good to automatically identify system dependencies in the future
+      - run: |
+          library(episoap)
+          for (tp in list_templates()) {
+            rmarkdown::render(
+              system.file("rmarkdown", "templates", tp, "skeleton", "skeleton.Rmd",
+                package = "episoap"
+              ),
+              output_file = tempfile(),
+              quiet = TRUE
+            )
+          }
+        shell: Rscript {0}
diff --git a/R/list_templates.R b/R/list_templates.R
index f140985..16e0ed8 100644
--- a/R/list_templates.R
+++ b/R/list_templates.R
@@ -9,5 +9,10 @@
 #' @export
 #'
 list_templates <- function() {
-  list.files(system.file("rmarkdown", "templates", package = "episoap"))
+
+  reps <- list.files(system.file("rmarkdown", "templates", package = "episoap"))
+  stable_reps <- grep("^_", reps, invert = TRUE, value = TRUE)
+
+  return(stable_reps)
+
 }
diff --git a/tests/testthat/test-render_templates.R b/tests/testthat/test-render_templates.R
deleted file mode 100644
index c94d3f6..0000000
--- a/tests/testthat/test-render_templates.R
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,18 +0,0 @@
-test_that("all templates render (at least with default params)", {
-  skip_on_cran()
-  skip_on_ci()
-
-  for (tp in list_templates()) {
-    expect_no_error(
-      suppressMessages(suppressWarnings(
-        rmarkdown::render(
-          system.file("rmarkdown", "templates", tp, "skeleton", "skeleton.Rmd",
-            package = "episoap"
-          ),
-          output_file = tempfile(),
-          quiet = TRUE
-        )
-      ))
-    )
-  }
-})