diff --git a/.github/actions/action.yml b/.github/actions/action.yml
index 088877304a7..4a838b24d95 100644
--- a/.github/actions/action.yml
+++ b/.github/actions/action.yml
@@ -48,7 +48,9 @@ inputs:
   is_ci_workload:
     description: "Is CI workload"
     required: true
-
+  is_merge_group:
+    description: "Is merge group"
+    required: true
 runs:
   using: "composite"
   steps:
@@ -179,7 +181,12 @@ runs:
         #!/bin/bash
         set -euxo pipefail
 
-        if [ "${{ steps.has-run-tests-label.outputs.main }}" == "true" ]; then
+        if [ "${{ inputs.is_merge_group }}" == "true" ]; then
+          ARGS=(
+            --scope mr-github
+            --n-repeat 1
+          )
+        elif [ "${{ steps.has-run-tests-label.outputs.main }}" == "true" ]; then
           ARGS=(
             --scope mr-github
             --enable-lightweight-mode
diff --git a/.github/workflows/cicd-main.yml b/.github/workflows/cicd-main.yml
index b27348f2dce..074f4234a91 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/cicd-main.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/cicd-main.yml
@@ -18,8 +18,6 @@ on:
     - cron: 0 0 * * *
   push:
     branches:
-      - dev
-      - main
       - "pull-request/[0-9]+"
       - "deploy-release/*"
   merge_group:
@@ -181,7 +179,7 @@ jobs:
   cicd-wait-in-queue:
     runs-on: ubuntu-latest
     needs: [pre-flight, linting]
-    environment: ${{ needs.pre-flight.outputs.is_merge_group == 'true' && 'merge-gate' || 'test' }}
+    environment: "test"
     if: |
       !(needs.pre-flight.outputs.is_ci_workload == 'true'
       || needs.pre-flight.outputs.is_deployment_workflow == 'true'
@@ -404,7 +402,6 @@ jobs:
         success()
         || needs.pre-flight.outputs.is_ci_workload == 'true'
         || needs.pre-flight.outputs.force_run_all == 'true'
-        || needs.pre-flight.outputs.is_merge_group == 'true'
       )
       && !cancelled()
     outputs:
@@ -442,7 +439,7 @@ jobs:
         id: main
         env:
           HAS_RUN_TESTS_LABEL: ${{ steps.has-run-tests-label.outputs.main }}
-          HAS_RUN_FUNCTIONAL_TESTS_LABEL: ${{ steps.has-run-functional-tests-label.outputs.main }}
+          HAS_RUN_FUNCTIONAL_TESTS_LABEL: ${{ steps.has-run-functional-tests-label.outputs.main == 'true' || needs.pre-flight.outputs.is_merge_group == 'true' }}
         run: |
           export PYTHONPATH=$(pwd)
 
@@ -505,7 +502,6 @@ jobs:
         || needs.pre-flight.outputs.is_ci_workload == 'true'
         || needs.pre-flight.outputs.force_run_all == 'true'
       )
-      && needs.pre-flight.outputs.is_merge_group == 'false'
       && !cancelled()
     steps:
       - name: Checkout
@@ -521,6 +517,7 @@ jobs:
           PAT: ${{ secrets.PAT }}
           container-image: ${{ env.container-registry }}/megatron-lm:${{ github.sha }}
           is_ci_workload: ${{ needs.pre-flight.outputs.is_ci_workload }}
+          is_merge_group: ${{ needs.pre-flight.outputs.is_merge_group }}
 
   Nemo_CICD_Test:
     needs:
diff --git a/tests/test_utils/recipes/gpt.yaml b/tests/test_utils/recipes/gpt.yaml
index 90eddc55c27..a97a4d7bb38 100644
--- a/tests/test_utils/recipes/gpt.yaml
+++ b/tests/test_utils/recipes/gpt.yaml
@@ -110,14 +110,14 @@ products:
   - test_case: [gpt3_mcore_te_tp1_pp1_dist_optimizer_no_mmap_bin_files]
     products:
       - environment: [dev]
-        scope: [mr]
+        scope: [mr, mr-github]
         platforms: [dgx_h100]
       - environment: [lts]
         scope: [nightly]
   - test_case: [gpt3_mcore_te_tp1_pp1_dist_optimizer_fim_dataset]
     products:
       - environment: [dev]
-        scope: [mr]
+        scope: [mr, mr-github]
         platforms: [dgx_h100]
   - test_case: [gpt3_mcore_te_tp1_pp1_resume_torch_dist_dist_optimizer]
     products:
@@ -129,7 +129,7 @@ products:
   - test_case: [gpt3_mcore_te_tp1_pp1_resume_torch_dist_uniform_full_recompute]
     products:
       - environment: [dev]
-        scope: [mr]
+        scope: [mr, mr-github]
         platforms: [dgx_h100]
       - environment: [lts]
         scope: [nightly]
@@ -142,28 +142,28 @@ products:
   - test_case: [gpt3_mcore_te_tp1_pp2_resume_torch_dist_rope_embeddings]
     products:
       - environment: [dev]
-        scope: [mr]
+        scope: [mr, mr-github]
         platforms: [dgx_h100]
       # - environment: [lts]
       #   scope: [nightly] # outdated TE: #501
   - test_case: [gpt3_mcore_te_tp1_pp2_resume_torch_dist_rope_embeddings_interleaved_no_fusion]
     products:
       - environment: [dev]
-        scope: [mr]
+        scope: [mr, mr-github]
         platforms: [dgx_h100]
       - environment: [lts]
         scope: [nightly]
   - test_case: [gpt3_mcore_te_tp1_pp4_resume_torch_dist_disable_bias_linear]
     products:
       - environment: [dev]
-        scope: [mr]
+        scope: [mr, mr-github]
         platforms: [dgx_h100]
       # - environment: [lts]
       #   scope: [nightly] # non-determinism: #436
   - test_case: [gpt3_mcore_te_tp1_pp4_resume_torch_dist_persistent_disable_bias_linear]
     products:
       - environment: [dev]
-        scope: [mr]
+        scope: [mr, mr-github]
         platforms: [dgx_h100]
       - environment: [lts]
         scope: [nightly]
@@ -177,28 +177,28 @@ products:
   - test_case: [gpt3_mcore_te_tp1_pp4_resume_torch_dist_untie_embeddings_and_outputs]
     products:
       - environment: [dev]
-        scope: [mr]
+        scope: [mr, mr-github]
         platforms: [dgx_h100]
       - environment: [lts]
         scope: [nightly]
   - test_case: [gpt3_mcore_te_tp1_pp4_vp1]
     products:
       - environment: [dev]
-        scope: [mr]
+        scope: [mr, mr-github]
         platforms: [dgx_h100]
       - environment: [lts]
         scope: [nightly]
   - test_case: [gpt3_mcore_te_tp1_pp4_vp1_resume_torch_decoupled_lr]
     products:
       - environment: [dev]
-        scope: [mr]
+        scope: [mr, mr-github]
         platforms: [dgx_h100]
       - environment: [lts]
         scope: [nightly]
   - test_case: [gpt3_mcore_te_tp1_pp4_vp1_resume_torch_dist_calculate_per_token_loss]
     products:
       - environment: [dev]
-        scope: [mr]
+        scope: [mr, mr-github]
         platforms: [dgx_h100]
       - environment: [lts]
         scope: [nightly]
@@ -212,7 +212,7 @@ products:
   - test_case: [gpt3_mcore_te_tp1_pp4_vp1_resume_torch_dist_dist_optimizer_overlap_grad_reduce]
     products:
       - environment: [dev]
-        scope: [mr]
+        scope: [mr, mr-github]
         platforms: [dgx_h100]
       - environment: [lts]
         scope: [nightly]
@@ -247,83 +247,83 @@ products:
   - test_case: [gpt3_mcore_te_tp1_pp4_vp1_uneven_pipeline]
     products:
       - environment: [dev]
-        scope: [mr]
+        scope: [mr, mr-github]
         platforms: [dgx_h100]
       - environment: [lts]
         scope: [nightly]
   - test_case: [gpt3_mcore_te_tp1_pp4_vp2_account_for_embedding_loss_in_pipeline_split]
     products:
       - environment: [dev]
-        scope: [mr]
+        scope: [mr, mr-github]
         platforms: [dgx_h100]
       - environment: [lts]
         scope: [nightly]
   - test_case: [gpt3_mcore_te_tp2_pp1_resume_torch_dist_cp2_nondeterministic]
     products:
       - environment: [dev]
-        scope: [mr]
+        scope: [mr, mr-github]
         platforms: [dgx_h100]
       - environment: [lts]
         scope: [nightly]
   - test_case: [gpt3_mcore_te_tp2_pp1_resume_torch_dist_multi_dist_optimizer_instances]
     products:
       - environment: [dev]
-        scope: [mr]
+        scope: [mr, mr-github]
         platforms: [dgx_h100]
       - environment: [lts]
         scope: [nightly]
   - test_case: [gpt3_mcore_te_tp2_pp2_cp2]
     products:
       - environment: [dev]
-        scope: [mr]
+        scope: [mr, mr-github]
         platforms: [dgx_h100]
   - test_case: [gpt3_mcore_te_tp2_pp2_cp2_etp4_dp_last]
     products:
       - environment: [dev]
-        scope: [mr]
+        scope: [mr, mr-github]
         platforms: [dgx_h100]
   - test_case: [gpt3_mcore_te_tp2_pp2_cp2_calculate_per_token_loss]
     products:
       - environment: [dev]
-        scope: [mr]
+        scope: [mr, mr-github]
         platforms: [dgx_h100]
   - test_case: [gpt3_mcore_te_tp2_pp2_cp2_etp4_calculate_per_token_loss_dp_last]
     products:
       - environment: [dev]
-        scope: [mr]
+        scope: [mr, mr-github]
         platforms: [dgx_h100]
   - test_case: [gpt3_mcore_te_tp2_pp2_cp2_nondeterministic]
     products:
       - environment: [dev]
-        scope: [mr]
+        scope: [mr, mr-github]
         platforms: [dgx_h100]
       - environment: [lts]
         scope: [nightly]
   - test_case: [gpt3_mcore_te_tp2_pp2_cp2_etp4_nondeterministic_dp_last]
     products:
       - environment: [dev]
-        scope: [mr]
+        scope: [mr, mr-github]
         platforms: [dgx_h100]
       - environment: [lts]
         scope: [nightly]
   - test_case: [gpt3_mcore_te_tp2_pp2_cp2_calculate_per_token_loss_nondeterministic]
     products:
       - environment: [dev]
-        scope: [mr]
+        scope: [mr, mr-github]
         platforms: [dgx_h100]
       - environment: [lts]
         scope: [nightly]
   - test_case: [gpt3_mcore_te_tp2_pp2_cp2_etp4_calculate_per_token_loss_nondeterministic_dp_last]
     products:
       - environment: [dev]
-        scope: [mr]
+        scope: [mr, mr-github]
         platforms: [dgx_h100]
       - environment: [lts]
         scope: [nightly]
   - test_case: [gpt3_mcore_te_tp2_pp2_cross_entropy_loss_fusion]
     products:
       - environment: [dev]
-        scope: [mr]
+        scope: [mr, mr-github]
         platforms: [dgx_h100]
       - environment: [lts]
         scope: [nightly]
@@ -331,14 +331,14 @@ products:
   - test_case: [gpt3_mcore_te_tp2_pp2_resume_torch_dist_cp2_nondeterministic]
     products:
       - environment: [dev]
-        scope: [mr]
+        scope: [mr, mr-github]
         platforms: [dgx_h100]
       - environment: [lts]
         scope: [nightly]
   - test_case: [gpt3_mcore_te_tp2_pp2_resume_torch_dist_cross_entropy_loss_fusion]
     products:
       - environment: [dev]
-        scope: [mr]
+        scope: [mr, mr-github]
         platforms: [dgx_h100]
       - environment: [lts]
         scope: [nightly]
@@ -350,26 +350,26 @@ products:
   - test_case: [gpt3_mcore_te_tp2_pp2_mla]
     products:
       - environment: [dev]
-        scope: [mr]
+        scope: [mr, mr-github]
         platforms: [dgx_h100]
   - test_case: [gpt3_mcore_te_tp2_pp2_resume_torch_dist_ddp_average_in_collective]
     products:
       - environment: [dev]
-        scope: [mr]
+        scope: [mr, mr-github]
         platforms: [dgx_h100]
       - environment: [lts]
         scope: [nightly]
   - test_case: [gpt3_mcore_te_tp2_pp2_resume_torch_dist_defer_embedding_wgrad_compute]
     products:
       - environment: [dev]
-        scope: [mr]
+        scope: [mr, mr-github]
         platforms: [dgx_h100]
       - environment: [lts]
         scope: [nightly]
   - test_case: [gpt3_mcore_te_tp2_pp2_resume_torch_dist]
     products:
       - environment: [dev]
-        scope: [mr]
+        scope: [mr, mr-github]
         platforms: [dgx_h100]
       - environment: [lts]
         scope: [nightly]
@@ -383,28 +383,28 @@ products:
   - test_case: [gpt3_mcore_te_tp2_pp2_resume_torch_dist_reshard_1x4xNone]
     products:
       - environment: [dev]
-        scope: [mr]
+        scope: [mr, mr-github]
         platforms: [dgx_h100]
       - environment: [lts]
         scope: [nightly]
   - test_case: [gpt3_mcore_te_tp4_pp1_resume_torch_dist_dist_optimizer_overlap_grad_reduce]
     products:
       - environment: [dev]
-        scope: [mr]
+        scope: [mr, mr-github]
         platforms: [dgx_h100]
       - environment: [lts]
         scope: [nightly]
   - test_case: [gpt3_mcore_te_tp4_pp1_resume_torch_dist_qk_layernorm_test_mode]
     products:
       - environment: [dev]
-        scope: [mr]
+        scope: [mr, mr-github]
         platforms: [dgx_h100]
       - environment: [lts]
         scope: [nightly]
   - test_case: [gpt3_mcore_tp2_pp2_uninstall_te]
     products:
       - environment: [dev]
-        scope: [mr]
+        scope: [mr, mr-github]
         platforms: [dgx_h100]
       - environment: [lts]
         scope: [nightly]
@@ -425,14 +425,14 @@ products:
   - test_case: [gpt3_mcore_te_tp2_zp_z3_resume_fsdp_dtensor]
     products:
       - environment: [dev]
-        scope: [mr]
+        scope: [mr, mr-github]
         platforms: [dgx_h100]
       # - environment: [lts]
       #   scope: [nightly]
   - test_case: [gpt3_mcore_te_tp2_pp1_modelopt_distill_resume]
     products:
       - environment: [dev]
-        scope: [mr]
+        scope: [mr, mr-github]
         platforms: [dgx_h100]
       # - environment: [lts]
       #   scope: [nightly] # Outdated: #502
@@ -469,7 +469,7 @@ products:
   - test_case: [gpt3_mcore_te_tp4_pp1_dist_optimizer_overlap_grad_reduce_param_gather]
     products:
       - environment: [dev]
-        scope: [mr]
+        scope: [mr, mr-github]
         platforms: [dgx_h100]
       - environment: [lts]
         scope: [nightly]
@@ -483,7 +483,7 @@ products:
   - test_case: [gpt3_mcore_te_tp4_pp2_resume_torch_dist_reshard_8x1xNone]
     products:
       - environment: [dev]
-        scope: [mr]
+        scope: [mr, mr-github]
         platforms: [dgx_h100]
       - environment: [lts]
         scope: [nightly]
diff --git a/tests/test_utils/recipes/mamba.yaml b/tests/test_utils/recipes/mamba.yaml
index 47b731f7e00..456a6cbccf7 100644
--- a/tests/test_utils/recipes/mamba.yaml
+++ b/tests/test_utils/recipes/mamba.yaml
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ format_version: 1
 maintainers: [mcore]
 loggers: [stdout]
 spec:
-  name: '{test_case}_{environment}_{platforms}'
+  name: "{test_case}_{environment}_{platforms}"
   model: hybrid
   build: mcore-pyt-{environment}
   nodes: 1
@@ -58,7 +58,7 @@ products:
   - test_case: [hybrid_mr_mcore_te_tp1_pp1_cp1_dgx_a100_1N8G]
     products:
       - environment: [dev]
-        scope: [mr]
+        scope: [mr, mr-github]
         platforms: [dgx_h100]
       # - environment: [lts] # disabled until triton is bumped
       #   scope: [nightly]
@@ -74,7 +74,7 @@ products:
   - test_case: [hybrid_mr_mcore_te_tp2_pp1_cp1_dgx_a100_1N8G]
     products:
       - environment: [dev]
-        scope: [mr]
+        scope: [mr, mr-github]
         platforms: [dgx_h100]
       # - environment: [lts] # disabled until triton is bumped
       #   scope: [nightly]
diff --git a/tests/test_utils/recipes/moe.yaml b/tests/test_utils/recipes/moe.yaml
index 06039d77440..10c1140ddf5 100644
--- a/tests/test_utils/recipes/moe.yaml
+++ b/tests/test_utils/recipes/moe.yaml
@@ -119,7 +119,7 @@ products:
   - test_case: [gpt3_mcore_te_tp1_pp2_resume_torch_dist_reshard_2x1x4_te_8experts2parallel_dist_optimizer]
     products:
       - environment: [dev]
-        scope: [mr]
+        scope: [mr, mr-github]
         platforms: [dgx_h100]
   # - test_case: [gpt3_mcore_te_tp2_pp2_ep4_etp1_mtp_resume_torch_dist_fp8]
   #   products:
@@ -139,17 +139,17 @@ products:
   - test_case: [gpt3_mcore_te_tp2_pp1_resume_torch_dist_te_8experts2parallel_dist_optimizer]
     products:
       - environment: [dev]
-        scope: [mr]
+        scope: [mr, mr-github]
         platforms: [dgx_h100]
   - test_case: [gpt3_mcore_te_tp2_pp1_resume_torch_dist_te_8experts2parallel_multi_dist_optimizer_instances]
     products:
       - environment: [dev]
-        scope: [mr]
+        scope: [mr, mr-github]
         platforms: [dgx_h100]
   - test_case: [gpt3_mcore_te_tp2_pp1_te_8experts2parallel_overlap_grad_reduce_param_gather_groupedGEMM]
     products:
       - environment: [dev]
-        scope: [mr]
+        scope: [mr, mr-github]
         platforms: [dgx_h100]
   - test_case: [gpt3_mcore_te_tp2_pp1_te_8experts_etp1_ep4]
     products:
@@ -161,12 +161,12 @@ products:
   - test_case: [gpt3_mcore_te_tp2_pp1_te_a2a_ovlp_8experts_etp1_ep4]
     products:
       - environment: [dev]
-        scope: [mr]
+        scope: [mr, mr-github]
         platforms: [dgx_h100]
   - test_case: [gpt3_mcore_te_tp2_zp_z3_resume_torch_dist_te_8experts2parallel_top2router]
     products:
       - environment: [dev]
-        scope: [mr]
+        scope: [mr, mr-github]
         platforms: [dgx_h100]
   - test_case: [gpt3_moe_mcore_te_tp2_pp2_ep4_etp1_fine_grained_offloading]
     products:
@@ -181,19 +181,19 @@ products:
   - test_case: [gpt3_mcore_te_tp2_pp1_te_8experts2parallel_ddp_average_in_collective]
     products:
       - environment: [dev]
-        scope: [mr]
+        scope: [mr, mr-github]
         platforms: [dgx_h100]
       - environment: [lts]
         scope: [nightly]
   - test_case: [gpt3_moe_mcore_te_ep8_resume_torch_dist_dist_optimizer]
     products:
       - environment: [dev]
-        scope: [mr]
+        scope: [mr, mr-github]
         platforms: [dgx_h100]
   - test_case: [gpt3_moe_mcore_te_tp4_ep2_etp2_pp2_scoped_cudagraph]
     products:
       - environment: [dev]
-        scope: [mr]
+        scope: [mr, mr-github]
         platforms: [dgx_h100]
   - test_case: [gpt3_moe_mcore_te_ep8_resume_torch_dist_dist_muon]
     products: