diff --git a/.github/workflows/ci.yml b/.github/workflows/ci.yml
index d1798d6bb..93be0be42 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/ci.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/ci.yml
@@ -10,16 +10,7 @@ concurrency:
   cancel-in-progress: ${{ github.event_name == 'pull_request' }}
 
 jobs:
-  # Warms the bun install cache once so the parallel jobs below mostly
-  # restore rather than reinstall from the network.
-  setup:
-    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
-    steps:
-      - uses: actions/checkout@v4
-      - uses: ./.github/actions/setup-workbench
-
   typecheck:
-    needs: setup
     runs-on: ubuntu-latest
     steps:
       - uses: actions/checkout@v4
@@ -27,7 +18,6 @@ jobs:
       - run: bun run typecheck
 
   lint:
-    needs: setup
     runs-on: ubuntu-latest
     steps:
       - uses: actions/checkout@v4
@@ -35,22 +25,9 @@ jobs:
       - run: bun run lint
       - run: bun run fmt:check
 
-  # A single fast pass over every workspace's tests. DB-gated suites
-  # skip themselves when DATABASE_URL is unset —
-  # see test/db-gate.ts — so this job needs no Postgres service.
-  unit:
-    needs: setup
-    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
-    timeout-minutes: 10
-    steps:
-      - uses: actions/checkout@v4
-      - uses: ./.github/actions/setup-workbench
-      - run: bun run test
-
   # Integration and browser suites under e2e/. CI=true turns DB- and
   # Chrome-gated skips into hard failures.
   e2e:
-    needs: setup
     runs-on: ubuntu-latest
     timeout-minutes: 20
     services: