diff --git a/.gitlab-ci.yml b/.gitlab-ci.yml
index b36ef9d777e1333a74a99ba9cf96edea2a67f91d..cba14d98f609df36a463d615487516a77ccddbd0 100644
--- a/.gitlab-ci.yml
+++ b/.gitlab-ci.yml
@@ -23,6 +23,7 @@ include:
     # For Yocto Kirkstone the baseline will move to Go 1.18.
     CI_GO_VERSION: "1.16"
     GOPATH: $CI_PROJECT_DIR.tmp/go
+  needs: []
 
 dco:
   interruptible: true
@@ -155,6 +156,7 @@ spell:
   stage: test
   image:
     name: docker.io/onirocore/npm-cspell:latest
+  needs: []
   script:
     # Note that the particular options are duplicated with what's defined in
     # Makefile. To avoid this we'd have to get zmk as an installable dependency