diff --git a/.github/workflows/_run.yml b/.github/workflows/_run.yml
index 993114d2a11b3..1e2287324ede4 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/_run.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/_run.yml
@@ -218,7 +218,6 @@ jobs:
         ssh-key: ${{ inputs.trusted && inputs.ssh-key || '' }}
         token: ${{ inputs.trusted && steps.appauth.outputs.token || github.token }}
 
-    # This is currently only use by mobile-docs and can be removed once they are updated to the newer website
     - uses: envoyproxy/toolshed/gh-actions/github/checkout@actions-v0.2.31
       id: checkout-extra
       name: Checkout extra repository (for publishing)
diff --git a/.github/workflows/_stage_verify.yml b/.github/workflows/_stage_verify.yml
index c6de8a7c1bf6f..5e9314acfb485 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/_stage_verify.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/_stage_verify.yml
@@ -4,6 +4,7 @@ permissions:
   contents: read
 
 on:
+  pull_request:
   workflow_call:
     inputs:
       request:
diff --git a/.github/workflows/_test_verify.yml b/.github/workflows/_test_verify.yml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000..dce07c8bd33ca
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.github/workflows/_test_verify.yml
@@ -0,0 +1,111 @@
+name: Verify (testing)
+
+permissions:
+  contents: read
+
+on:
+  pull_request:
+  workflow_call:
+    inputs:
+      request:
+        type: string
+        required: true
+      trusted:
+        type: boolean
+        required: true
+
+concurrency:
+  group: >-
+    ${{ github.actor != 'trigger-release-envoy[bot]'
+        && github.event.inputs.head_ref
+        || github.run_id
+    }}-${{ github.event.workflow.id }}-verify
+  cancel-in-progress: true
+
+
+jobs:
+  verify:
+    permissions:
+      contents: read
+      packages: read
+    name: ${{ matrix.name || matrix.target }}
+    uses: ./.github/workflows/_run.yml
+    with:
+      cache-build-image:
+      checkout-extra: |
+        repository: envoyproxy/examples
+        path: examples
+      container-command:
+      rbe: ${{ matrix.rbe }}
+      request: ${{ inputs.request }}
+      runs-on: envoy-x64-small
+      steps-pre: ${{ matrix.steps-pre }}
+      source: ${{ matrix.source }}
+      target: ${{ matrix.target }}
+      trusted: ${{ inputs.trusted }}
+    strategy:
+      fail-fast: false
+      matrix:
+        include:
+        - name: examples
+          target: verify_examples
+          source: |
+            export NO_BUILD_SETUP=1
+          rbe: false
+          steps-pre: |
+            - run: |
+                # TODO(phlax): Remove this once resolved properly
+                # Downgrade Docker to workaround https://github.com/containers/skopeo/issues/2365
+                sudo install -m 0755 -d /etc/apt/keyrings
+                sudo curl -fsSL https://download.docker.com/linux/ubuntu/gpg -o /etc/apt/keyrings/docker.asc
+                sudo chmod a+r /etc/apt/keyrings/docker.asc
+                echo "deb [arch=$(dpkg --print-architecture) signed-by=/etc/apt/keyrings/docker.asc] \
+                  https://download.docker.com/linux/ubuntu \
+                  $(. /etc/os-release && echo "$VERSION_CODENAME") stable" \
+                  | sudo  tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/docker.list \
+                  > /dev/null
+                sudo apt-get update
+                sudo apt-get install -y -qq --allow-downgrades \
+                  docker-ce=5:24.0.9-1~ubuntu.22.04~jammy \
+                  docker-ce-cli=5:24.0.9-1~ubuntu.22.04~jammy
+                sudo systemctl restart docker
+                sudo docker --version
+              shell: bash
+            - id: url
+              uses: envoyproxy/toolshed/gh-actions/jq@actions-v0.2.30
+              with:
+                options: -Rr
+                input: >-
+                  ${{ inputs.trusted
+                      && fromJSON(inputs.request).request.sha
+                      || fromJSON(inputs.request).request.ref }}
+                filter: |
+                  .[:7] as $sha
+                  | if ${{ inputs.trusted }} then
+                      "envoy-postsubmit"
+                    else
+                      "envoy-pr"
+                    end
+                  | . as $bucket
+                  | "https://storage.googleapis.com/\($bucket)/\($sha)"
+            - uses: envoyproxy/toolshed/gh-actions/docker/fetch@actions-v0.2.30
+              with:
+                url: %{{ steps.url.outputs.value }}/docker/envoy.tar
+                variant: dev
+            - uses: envoyproxy/toolshed/gh-actions/docker/fetch@actions-v0.2.30
+              with:
+                url: %{{ steps.url.outputs.value }}/docker/envoy-contrib.tar
+                variant: contrib-dev
+            - uses: envoyproxy/toolshed/gh-actions/docker/fetch@actions-v0.2.30
+              with:
+                url: %{{ steps.url.outputs.value }}/docker/envoy-google-vrp.tar
+                variant: google-vrp-dev
+            - run: docker images | grep envoy
+              shell: bash
+            - run: |
+                # Install expected host packages
+                export DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive
+                sudo apt-get -qq update -y
+                sudo apt-get -qq install -y --no-install-recommends expect gettext whois
+                pip install -r ./.github/workflows/verify-requirements.txt
+              shell: bash