diff --git a/.github/workflows/commit-if-modified.sh b/.github/workflows/commit-if-modified.sh
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index e951d3fb..00000000
--- a/.github/workflows/commit-if-modified.sh
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,13 +0,0 @@
-#!/usr/bin/env bash
-git config --global user.email "$1"
-shift
-git config --global user.name "$1"
-shift
-message="$1"
-shift
-if [ $(git status --porcelain "$@" | egrep '^ M' | wc -l) -gt 0 ]; then
-  git add "$@"
-  git commit -m "$message"
-  git push || git pull --rebase
-  git push
-fi
diff --git a/.github/workflows/copyright-year.sh b/.github/workflows/copyright-year.sh
deleted file mode 100644
index 92fdbe5f..00000000
--- a/.github/workflows/copyright-year.sh
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,15 +0,0 @@
-#!/usr/bin/env bash
-dir=${1:-$PWD}
-dates=($(git log --date=format:%Y --pretty=format:'%ad' --reverse | sort | uniq))
-if [ "${#dates[@]}" -eq 1 ]; then
-  datestr="${dates}"
-else
-  datestr="${dates}-${dates[${#dates[@]}-1]}"
-fi
-
-stripDate='s/^((.*)Copyright\b(.*?))((?:,\s*)?(([0-9]{4}\s*-\s*[0-9]{4})|(([0-9]{4},\s*)*[0-9]{4})))(?:,)?\s*(.*)\n$/$1$9\n/g'
-addDate='s/^.*Copyright(?:\s*\(c\))? /Copyright \(c\) '$datestr' /g'
-for l in $dir/LICENSE*; do
-  perl -pi -e "$stripDate" $l
-  perl -pi -e "$addDate" $l
-done
diff --git a/.github/workflows/isaacs-makework.yml b/.github/workflows/isaacs-makework.yml
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index 7f0a44a3..00000000
--- a/.github/workflows/isaacs-makework.yml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,38 +0,0 @@
-name: "various tidying up tasks to silence nagging"
-
-on:
-  push:
-    branches:
-      - main
-  workflow_dispatch:
-
-jobs:
-  makework:
-    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
-    steps:
-      - uses: actions/checkout@v2
-        with:
-          fetch-depth: 0
-      - name: Use Node.js
-        uses: actions/setup-node@v3
-        with:
-          node-version: 16.x
-          cache: npm
-      - name: put repo in package.json
-        run: node .github/workflows/package-json-repo.js
-      - name: check in package.json if modified
-        run: |
-          bash -x .github/workflows/commit-if-modified.sh \
-            "package-json-repo-bot@example.com" \
-            "package.json Repo Bot" \
-            "chore: add repo to package.json" \
-            package.json package-lock.json
-      - name: put all dates in license copyright line
-        run: bash .github/workflows/copyright-year.sh
-      - name: check in licenses if modified
-        run: |
-          bash .github/workflows/commit-if-modified.sh \
-            "license-year-bot@example.com" \
-            "License Year Bot" \
-            "chore: add copyright year to license" \
-            LICENSE*
diff --git a/.github/workflows/package-json-repo.js b/.github/workflows/package-json-repo.js
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index b28151b6..00000000
--- a/.github/workflows/package-json-repo.js
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,16 +0,0 @@
-#!/usr/bin/env node
-
-const pf = require.resolve(`${process.cwd()}/package.json`)
-const pj = require(pf)
-
-if (!pj.repository && process.env.GITHUB_REPOSITORY) {
-  const fs = require('fs')
-  const server = process.env.GITHUB_SERVER_URL || 'https://github.com'
-  const repo = `${server}/${process.env.GITHUB_REPOSITORY}`
-  pj.repository = repo
-  const json = fs.readFileSync(pf, 'utf8')
-  const match = json.match(/^\s*\{[\r\n]+([ \t]*)"/)
-  const indent = match[1]
-  const output = JSON.stringify(pj, null, indent || 2) + '\n'
-  fs.writeFileSync(pf, output)
-}