diff --git a/.github/workflows/pr-verify.yml b/.github/workflows/pr-verify.yml
deleted file mode 100644
index 7246bd88..00000000
--- a/.github/workflows/pr-verify.yml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,70 +0,0 @@
-name: Verify Pull Request
-on: # yamllint disable-line rule:truthy
-  pull_request_target:
-    types: [opened, edited, synchronize, reopened, ready_for_review]
-# yamllint disable rule:line-length
-jobs:
-  pr-verify:
-    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
-    name: Verify Pull Request
-    if: github.event_name != 'pull_request_target' || !github.event.pull_request.draft
-    steps:
-      - name: Verifier action
-        id: verifier
-        uses: kubernetes-sigs/kubebuilder-release-tools@012269a88fa4c034a0acf1ba84c26b195c0dbab4 # v0.4.3
-        with:
-          github_token: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
-
-      - name: Checkout repository
-        uses: actions/checkout@34e114876b0b11c390a56381ad16ebd13914f8d5 # v4.3.1
-        with:
-          ref: ${{ github.event.pull_request.head.sha }}
-
-      - name: Verify Boilerplate
-        run: make verify-boilerplate
-
-      - name: Verify Shellcheck
-        run: make verify-shellcheck
-
-      - uses: actions/setup-node@49933ea5288caeca8642d1e84afbd3f7d6820020 # v4
-        with:
-          node-version: "22"
-      - name: Install renovate
-        run: npm i -g renovate@35.54.0 # TODO update this via renovatebot
-
-      - name: Validate config
-        run: |
-          for file in $(find . -name "*.json5"); do
-            renovate-config-validator ${file}
-          done
-
-      - name: Generate Token
-        uses: tibdex/github-app-token@3beb63f4bd073e61482598c45c71c1019b59b73a # v2
-        id: generate-token
-        with:
-          app_id: ${{ secrets.SCS_APP_ID }}
-          private_key: ${{ secrets.SCS_APP_PRIVATE_KEY }}
-      - name: Generate Size
-        uses: pascalgn/size-label-action@f8edde36b3be04b4f65dcfead05dc8691b374348 # v0.5.5
-        env:
-          GITHUB_TOKEN: ${{ steps.generate-token.outputs.token }}
-        with:
-          sizes: >
-            {
-            "0": "XS",
-            "20": "S",
-            "50": "M",
-            "200": "L",
-            "800": "XL",
-            "2000": "XXL"
-            }
-      - name: Generate Labels
-        uses: actions/labeler@8558fd74291d67161a8a78ce36a881fa63b766a9 # v5
-        with:
-          configuration-path: .github/labeler.yaml
-          repo-token: ${{ steps.generate-token.outputs.token }}
-      - name: Sync Labels
-        uses: EndBug/label-sync@52074158190acb45f3077f9099fea818aa43f97a # v2
-        with:
-          config-file: .github/labels.yaml
-          token: ${{ steps.generate-token.outputs.token }}
diff --git a/.github/workflows/verifier.yml b/.github/workflows/verifier.yml
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..68febd41
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.github/workflows/verifier.yml
@@ -0,0 +1,42 @@
+name: "PR Title Verifier"
+
+on:
+  pull_request:
+    types: [opened, edited, synchronize, reopened]
+
+permissions: {}
+
+jobs:
+  verify:
+    permissions:
+      contents: read
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+
+    steps:
+      - name: Checkout code
+        uses: actions/checkout@de0fac2e4500dabe0009e67214ff5f5447ce83dd # v6.0.2
+        with:
+          persist-credentials: false
+
+      - name: Validate PR Title Format
+        env:
+          TITLE: ${{ github.event.pull_request.title }}
+        run: |
+          if [[ -z "$TITLE" ]]; then
+            echo "Error: PR title cannot be empty."
+            exit 1
+          fi
+
+          if ! [[ "$TITLE" =~ ^($'\u26A0'|$'\u2728'|$'\U0001F41B'|$'\U0001F4D6'|$'\U0001F680'|$'\U0001F331') ]]; then
+            echo "Error: Invalid PR title format."
+            echo "Your PR title must start with one of the following indicators:"
+            echo "- Breaking change: ⚠ (U+26A0)"
+            echo "- Non-breaking feature: ✨ (U+2728)"
+            echo "- Patch fix: 🐛 (U+1F41B)"
+            echo "- Docs: 📖 (U+1F4D6)"
+            echo "- Release: 🚀 (U+1F680)"
+            echo "- Infra/Tests/Other: 🌱 (U+1F331)"
+            exit 1
+          fi
+
+          echo "PR title is valid: '$TITLE'"