diff --git a/.github/workflows/ci.yml b/.github/workflows/ci.yml
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index 00000000..970bb07c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.github/workflows/ci.yml
@@ -0,0 +1,23 @@
+name: CI
+
+on:
+  pull_request:
+  merge_group:
+
+concurrency:
+  group: ${{ github.workflow }}-${{ github.ref }}
+  cancel-in-progress: true
+
+jobs:
+  verifications:
+    name: Verifications
+    uses: ./.github/workflows/verifications.yml
+
+  required-checks:
+    name: Require CI status checks
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    if: ${{ !cancelled() && github.event.action != 'closed' }}
+    needs: [verifications]
+    steps:
+      - run: ${{ !contains(needs.*.result, 'failure') }}
+      - run: ${{ !contains(needs.*.result, 'cancelled') }}
diff --git a/.github/workflows/pipeline.yml b/.github/workflows/pipeline.yml
deleted file mode 100644
index 1a253d40..00000000
--- a/.github/workflows/pipeline.yml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,109 +0,0 @@
-name: Pipeline
-
-on:
-  push:
-    branches:
-      # semantic-release valid branches and all-contributors branches
-      - '+([0-9])?(.{+([0-9]),x}).x'
-      - 'main'
-      - 'next'
-      - 'next-major'
-      - 'beta'
-      - 'alpha'
-      - 'all-contributors/**'
-  pull_request:
-    types: [opened, synchronize]
-
-concurrency:
-  group: ${{ github.workflow }}-${{ github.ref }}
-  cancel-in-progress: true
-
-jobs:
-  code_validation:
-    name: 'Code Validation: ${{ matrix.validation_script }}'
-    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
-    strategy:
-      fail-fast: false
-      matrix:
-        validation_script:
-          ['lint', 'type-check', 'format:check', 'generate-all:check']
-
-    steps:
-      - name: Checkout
-        uses: actions/checkout@v4
-
-      - name: Use Node
-        uses: actions/setup-node@v4
-        with:
-          node-version-file: '.nvmrc'
-
-      - name: Install dependencies
-        uses: bahmutov/npm-install@v1
-        with:
-          useLockFile: false
-
-      - name: Run script
-        run: npm run ${{ matrix.validation_script }}
-
-  tests:
-    name: Tests (Node v${{ matrix.node }} - ESLint v${{ matrix.eslint }})
-    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
-
-    strategy:
-      fail-fast: false
-      matrix:
-        # The .x indicates "the most recent one"
-        node: [19.x, 18.x, 17.x, 16.x, 14.x, 14.17.0, 12.x, 12.22.0]
-        eslint: [7.5, 7, 8]
-
-    steps:
-      - name: Checkout
-        uses: actions/checkout@v4
-
-      - name: Use Node
-        uses: actions/setup-node@v4
-        with:
-          node-version: ${{ matrix.node }}
-
-      - name: Install dependencies
-        uses: bahmutov/npm-install@v1
-        with:
-          useLockFile: false
-
-      - name: Install ESLint v${{ matrix.eslint }}
-        run: npm install --no-save --force eslint@${{ matrix.eslint }}
-
-      - name: Run tests
-        run: npm run test:ci
-
-  release:
-    name: NPM Release
-    needs: [code_validation, tests]
-    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
-    if:
-      ${{ github.repository == 'testing-library/eslint-plugin-testing-library' &&
-      contains('refs/heads/main,refs/heads/beta,refs/heads/next,refs/heads/alpha',
-      github.ref) && github.event_name == 'push' }}
-
-    steps:
-      - name: Checkout
-        uses: actions/checkout@v4
-
-      - name: Use Node
-        uses: actions/setup-node@v4
-        with:
-          node-version-file: '.nvmrc'
-
-      - name: Install dependencies
-        uses: bahmutov/npm-install@v1
-        with:
-          useLockFile: false
-
-      - name: Build package
-        run: npm run build
-
-      - name: Release the new version to NPM
-        env:
-          GITHUB_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
-          NPM_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.NPM_AUTOMATION_TOKEN }}
-        run: npx semantic-release
diff --git a/.github/workflows/release.yml b/.github/workflows/release.yml
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..f6f6bfdd
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.github/workflows/release.yml
@@ -0,0 +1,43 @@
+name: Release
+
+on:
+  push:
+    branches:
+      # semantic-release valid branches
+      - '+([0-9])?(.{+([0-9]),x}).x'
+      - 'main'
+      - 'next'
+      - 'next-major'
+      - 'beta'
+      - 'alpha'
+
+concurrency:
+  group: release
+  cancel-in-progress: false
+
+jobs:
+  publish:
+    name: Publish NPM package
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    # Avoid publishing in forks
+    if: github.repository == 'testing-library/eslint-plugin-testing-library'
+    steps:
+      - name: Checkout
+        uses: actions/checkout@v4
+
+      - name: Set up Node
+        uses: actions/setup-node@v4
+        with:
+          node-version-file: '.nvmrc'
+
+      - name: Install dependencies
+        uses: bahmutov/npm-install@v1
+
+      - name: Build package
+        run: npm run build
+
+      - name: Release new version
+        env:
+          GITHUB_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
+          NPM_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.NPM_AUTOMATION_TOKEN }}
+        run: npx semantic-release
diff --git a/.github/workflows/verifications.yml b/.github/workflows/verifications.yml
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..d2fbf176
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.github/workflows/verifications.yml
@@ -0,0 +1,55 @@
+name: Verifications
+
+on:
+  workflow_call:
+
+jobs:
+  code-validation:
+    name: 'Code Validation: ${{ matrix.validation-script }}'
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    strategy:
+      fail-fast: false
+      matrix:
+        validation-script:
+          ['lint', 'type-check', 'format:check', 'generate-all:check']
+    steps:
+      - name: Checkout
+        uses: actions/checkout@v4
+
+      - name: Set up Node
+        uses: actions/setup-node@v4
+        with:
+          node-version-file: '.nvmrc'
+
+      - name: Install dependencies
+        uses: bahmutov/npm-install@v1
+
+      - name: Run script
+        run: npm run ${{ matrix.validation-script }}
+
+  tests:
+    name: Tests (Node v${{ matrix.node }} - ESLint v${{ matrix.eslint }})
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    strategy:
+      fail-fast: false
+      matrix:
+        # The .x indicates "the most recent one"
+        node: [19.x, 18.x, 17.x, 16.x, 14.x, 14.17.0, 12.x, 12.22.0]
+        eslint: [7.5, 7, 8]
+    steps:
+      - name: Checkout
+        uses: actions/checkout@v4
+
+      - name: Set up Node
+        uses: actions/setup-node@v4
+        with:
+          node-version: ${{ matrix.node }}
+
+      - name: Install dependencies
+        uses: bahmutov/npm-install@v1
+
+      - name: Install ESLint v${{ matrix.eslint }}
+        run: npm install --no-save --force eslint@${{ matrix.eslint }}
+
+      - name: Run tests
+        run: npm run test:ci