diff --git a/.github/workflows/static_code_analysis.yaml b/.github/workflows/static_code_analysis.yaml
index d67c4c62..62438dae 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/static_code_analysis.yaml
+++ b/.github/workflows/static_code_analysis.yaml
@@ -6,46 +6,8 @@ on:
     branches: [ main ]
   pull_request:
     branches: [ main ]
+  workflow_dispatch:
 
 jobs:
   static_code_analysis:
-    name: Run checks
-
-    env:
-      ruby_version: '2.7'
-
-    runs-on: 'ubuntu-20.04'
-    steps:
-      - name: Checkout current PR code
-        uses: actions/checkout@v4
-        with:
-          fetch-depth: 0
-
-      - name: Install ruby version ${{ env.ruby_version }}
-        uses: ruby/setup-ruby@v1
-        with:
-          ruby-version: ${{ env.ruby_version }}
-
-      - name: Prepare testing environment with bundler
-        run: |
-          git config --global core.longpaths true
-          bundle config set --local without 'release'
-          bundle update --jobs 4 --retry 3
-
-      - name: Run commits check
-        run: bundle exec rake commits
-
-      - name: Run validate check
-        run: bundle exec rake validate
-
-      - name: Run lint check
-        run: bundle exec rake lint
-
-      - name: Run metadata_lint check
-        run: bundle exec rake metadata_lint
-
-      - name: Run syntax check
-        run: bundle exec rake syntax syntax:hiera syntax:manifests syntax:templates
-
-      - name: Run rubocop check
-        run: bundle exec rake rubocop
+    uses: "puppetlabs/phoenix-github-actions/.github/workflows/static_code_analysis.yaml@main"
diff --git a/rakelib/commits.rake b/rakelib/commits.rake
deleted file mode 100644
index 92ea4b40..00000000
--- a/rakelib/commits.rake
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,25 +0,0 @@
-desc "verify that commit messages match CONTRIBUTING.md requirements"
-task(:commits) do
-  # This rake task looks at the summary from every commit from this branch not
-  # in the branch targeted for a PR.
-  commit_range = 'HEAD^..HEAD'
-  puts "Checking commits #{commit_range}"
-  %x{git log --no-merges --pretty=%s #{commit_range}}.each_line do |commit_summary|
-    # This regex tests for the currently supported commit summary tokens.
-    # The exception tries to explain it in more full.
-    if /^Release prep|\((maint|packaging|doc|docs|pa-\d+)\)|revert/i.match(commit_summary).nil?
-      raise "\n\n\n\tThis commit summary didn't match CONTRIBUTING.md guidelines:\n" \
-        "\n\t\t#{commit_summary}\n" \
-        "\tThe commit summary (i.e. the first line of the commit message) should start with one of:\n"  \
-        "\t\t(PA-<digits>) # this is most common and should be a ticket at tickets.puppet.com\n" \
-        "\t\t(docs)\n" \
-        "\t\t(docs)(DOCUMENT-<digits>)\n" \
-        "\t\t(packaging)\n"
-        "\t\t(maint)\n" \
-        "\n\tThis test for the commit summary is case-insensitive.\n\n\n"
-    else
-      puts "#{commit_summary}"
-    end
-    puts "...passed"
-  end
-end