diff --git a/.github/workflows/e2e-fork.yml b/.github/workflows/e2e-fork.yml
index edf026b8a94..cabac74d7b0 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/e2e-fork.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/e2e-fork.yml
@@ -5,7 +5,9 @@ on:
     branches:
       - main
     paths-ignore:
-      - docs/**
+      - "docs/**"
+      - "**.md"
+      - "LICENSE"
 
 jobs:
   # dynamically build a matrix of test/test suite pairs to run
diff --git a/.github/workflows/e2e.yaml b/.github/workflows/e2e.yaml
index a0da6d93655..8c1758d8495 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/e2e.yaml
+++ b/.github/workflows/e2e.yaml
@@ -6,7 +6,9 @@ on:
     branches:
       - main
     paths-ignore:
-      - docs/**
+      - "docs/**"
+      - "**.md"
+      - "LICENSE"
 
 env:
   REGISTRY: ghcr.io