diff --git a/projects/rocprofiler-sdk/.github/workflows/formatting.yml b/.github/workflows/rocprofiler-sdk-formatting.yml
similarity index 82%
rename from projects/rocprofiler-sdk/.github/workflows/formatting.yml
rename to .github/workflows/rocprofiler-sdk-formatting.yml
index bf78b9c4ad9..7892280a83c 100644
--- a/projects/rocprofiler-sdk/.github/workflows/formatting.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/rocprofiler-sdk-formatting.yml
@@ -1,15 +1,16 @@
 
-name: Formatting
+name: RocProfiler-SDK Formatting
 
 on:
   workflow_dispatch:
   pull_request:
-    paths-ignore:
-      - '.github/workflows/pull_*.yml'
-      - '.github/workflows/linting.yml'
-      - '.github/workflows/markdown_lint.yml'
-      - '*.md'
-      - '**/README.md'
+    paths:
+      - 'projects/rocprofiler-sdk/**'
+      - '!projects/rocprofiler-sdk/.github/workflows/pull_*.yml'
+      - '!projects/rocprofiler-sdk/.github/workflows/linting.yml'
+      - '!projects/rocprofiler-sdk/.github/workflows/markdown_lint.yml'
+      - '!projects/rocprofiler-sdk/*.md'
+      - '!projects/rocprofiler-sdk/**/README.md'
 
 concurrency:
   group: ${{ github.workflow }}-${{ github.ref }}
@@ -17,12 +18,14 @@ concurrency:
 
 jobs:
   cmake:
-    runs-on: AMD-ROCm-Internal-dev1
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
     env:
       ACCESS_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
 
     steps:
     - uses: actions/checkout@v4
+      with:
+        sparse-checkout: projects/rocprofiler-sdk
 
     - name: Extract branch name
       shell: bash
@@ -50,13 +53,15 @@ jobs:
         fi
 
   source:
-    runs-on: AMD-ROCm-Internal-dev1
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
     container: rocm/dev-ubuntu-22.04:latest
     env:
       ACCESS_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
 
     steps:
     - uses: actions/checkout@v4
+      with:
+        sparse-checkout: projects/rocprofiler-sdk
 
     - name: Install dependencies
       run: |
@@ -86,7 +91,7 @@ jobs:
         fi
 
   python:
-    runs-on: AMD-ROCm-Internal-dev1
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
     strategy:
       matrix:
         python-version: ['3.10']
@@ -95,6 +100,8 @@ jobs:
 
     steps:
     - uses: actions/checkout@v4
+      with:
+        sparse-checkout: projects/rocprofiler-sdk
 
     - name: Extract branch name
       shell: bash
@@ -114,6 +121,7 @@ jobs:
 
     - name: black format
       run: |
+        cd projects/rocprofiler-sdk
         black .
         if [ $(git diff | wc -l) -ne 0 ]; then
           echo -e "\nError! Python code not formatted. Run black...\n"
@@ -125,10 +133,12 @@ jobs:
         fi
 
   missing-new-line:
-    runs-on: AMD-ROCm-Internal-dev1
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
 
     steps:
     - uses: actions/checkout@v4
+      with:
+        sparse-checkout: projects/rocprofiler-sdk
 
     - name: Find missing new line
       shell: bash