diff --git a/.github/workflows/mypy.yaml b/.github/workflows/mypy.yaml
index fbee6bb03fc8e..354849b249b59 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/mypy.yaml
+++ b/.github/workflows/mypy.yaml
@@ -14,11 +14,16 @@ on:
   pull_request:
     branches:
       - main
-    paths:
-      - '**/*.py'
-      - '.github/workflows/mypy.yaml'
-      - 'tools/mypy.sh'
-      - 'pyproject.toml'
+    # This workflow is only relevant when one of the following files changes.
+    # However, we have github configured to expect and require this workflow
+    # to run and pass before github with auto-merge a pull request. Until github
+    # allows more flexible auto-merge policy, we can just run this on every PR.
+    # It doesn't take that long to run, anyway.
+    #paths:
+    #  - '**/*.py'
+    #  - '.github/workflows/mypy.yaml'
+    #  - 'tools/mypy.sh'
+    #  - 'pyproject.toml'
 
 jobs:
   mypy: