diff --git a/.github/workflows/genesis_openembedded.yml b/.github/workflows/genesis_openembedded.yml
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..b2ee14521
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.github/workflows/genesis_openembedded.yml
@@ -0,0 +1,54 @@
+name: genesis_openembedded
+on:
+  pull_request:
+    paths:
+      - 'xCAT-genesis-builder/oe/**'
+      - 'xCAT-genesis-scripts/**'
+      - '.github/workflows/genesis_openembedded.yml'
+  workflow_dispatch:
+jobs:
+  genesis_openembedded:
+    name: OpenEmbedded metadata
+    runs-on: ubuntu-24.04
+    timeout-minutes: 30
+    steps:
+      - uses: actions/checkout@v6
+      - uses: actions/setup-python@v6
+        with:
+          python-version: '3.12'
+          cache: pip
+          cache-dependency-path: xCAT-genesis-builder/oe/requirements.txt
+      - name: Install OpenEmbedded host dependencies
+        run: >-
+          sudo env DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive apt-get install -y
+          --no-install-recommends --no-install-suggests
+          build-essential chrpath cpio diffstat file gawk git locales
+          lz4 openssl socat texinfo unzip wget xz-utils zstd
+      - name: Install KAS
+        run: python -m pip install -r xCAT-genesis-builder/oe/requirements.txt
+      - name: Enable BitBake user namespaces
+        run: sudo sysctl -w kernel.apparmor_restrict_unprivileged_userns=0
+      - name: Validate every architecture configuration
+        shell: bash
+        env:
+          KAS_WORK_DIR: ${{ runner.temp }}/kas-work
+        run: |
+          set -euo pipefail
+          for architecture in x86 x86_64 ppc64 ppc64le armv7hf aarch64 riscv64 s390x; do
+              export KAS_BUILD_DIR="${RUNNER_TEMP}/kas-build-${architecture}"
+              configuration="xCAT-genesis-builder/oe/kas/${architecture}.yml"
+              kas dump "${configuration}" >/dev/null
+              kas shell "${configuration}" -c 'bitbake -p'
+          done
+      - name: Validate the image task graph
+        shell: bash
+        env:
+          KAS_WORK_DIR: ${{ runner.temp }}/kas-work
+          KAS_BUILD_DIR: ${{ runner.temp }}/kas-build-x86_64
+        run: |
+          set -euo pipefail
+          kas shell xCAT-genesis-builder/oe/kas/x86_64.yml -c \
+              'bitbake -n xcat-genesis-image xcat-genesis-extension-smoke'
+          export KAS_BUILD_DIR="${RUNNER_TEMP}/kas-build-s390x"
+          kas shell xCAT-genesis-builder/oe/kas/s390x.yml -c \
+              'bitbake -n xcat-genesis-image xcat-genesis-extension-smoke'
diff --git a/.github/workflows/xcat_test.yml b/.github/workflows/xcat_test.yml
index 04d50aff0..d23185138 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/xcat_test.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/xcat_test.yml
@@ -10,49 +10,3 @@ jobs:
         run: sudo env DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive apt-get install -y --no-install-recommends --no-install-suggests bats build-essential fakeroot reprepro devscripts debhelper libcapture-tiny-perl libfile-slurper-perl libjson-perl libparallel-forkmanager-perl libsoap-lite-perl libdbi-perl libcgi-pm-perl quilt openssh-server dpkg looptools genometools software-properties-common
       - name: Run tests
         run: perl github_action_xcat_test.pl
-
-  genesis_openembedded:
-    name: OpenEmbedded metadata
-    runs-on: ubuntu-24.04
-    timeout-minutes: 30
-    steps:
-      - uses: actions/checkout@v6
-      - uses: actions/setup-python@v6
-        with:
-          python-version: '3.12'
-          cache: pip
-          cache-dependency-path: xCAT-genesis-builder/oe/requirements.txt
-      - name: Install OpenEmbedded host dependencies
-        run: >-
-          sudo env DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive apt-get install -y
-          --no-install-recommends --no-install-suggests
-          build-essential chrpath cpio diffstat file gawk git locales
-          lz4 openssl socat texinfo unzip wget xz-utils zstd
-      - name: Install KAS
-        run: python -m pip install -r xCAT-genesis-builder/oe/requirements.txt
-      - name: Enable BitBake user namespaces
-        run: sudo sysctl -w kernel.apparmor_restrict_unprivileged_userns=0
-      - name: Validate every architecture configuration
-        shell: bash
-        env:
-          KAS_WORK_DIR: ${{ runner.temp }}/kas-work
-        run: |
-          set -euo pipefail
-          for architecture in x86 x86_64 ppc64 ppc64le armv7hf aarch64 riscv64 s390x; do
-              export KAS_BUILD_DIR="${RUNNER_TEMP}/kas-build-${architecture}"
-              configuration="xCAT-genesis-builder/oe/kas/${architecture}.yml"
-              kas dump "${configuration}" >/dev/null
-              kas shell "${configuration}" -c 'bitbake -p'
-          done
-      - name: Validate the image task graph
-        shell: bash
-        env:
-          KAS_WORK_DIR: ${{ runner.temp }}/kas-work
-          KAS_BUILD_DIR: ${{ runner.temp }}/kas-build-x86_64
-        run: |
-          set -euo pipefail
-          kas shell xCAT-genesis-builder/oe/kas/x86_64.yml -c \
-              'bitbake -n xcat-genesis-image xcat-genesis-extension-smoke'
-          export KAS_BUILD_DIR="${RUNNER_TEMP}/kas-build-s390x"
-          kas shell xCAT-genesis-builder/oe/kas/s390x.yml -c \
-              'bitbake -n xcat-genesis-image xcat-genesis-extension-smoke'