diff --git a/.github/actions/url_verifier.sh b/.github/actions/url_verifier.sh
deleted file mode 100755
index e980465..0000000
--- a/.github/actions/url_verifier.sh
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,65 +0,0 @@
-#!/bin/bash -
-
-PROJECT=$1
-echo "Verifying url links of: ${PROJECT}"
-if [ ! -d "$PROJECT" ]
-then
-    echo "Directory passed does not exist"
-    exit 2
-fi
-
-USER_AGENT="Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_14_6) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/88.0.4324.146 Safari/537.36"
-SCRIPT_RET=0
-
-set -o nounset        # Treat unset variables as an error
-
-declare -A dict
-
-function test {
-    while IFS= read -r LINE; do
-        FILE=$(echo $LINE | cut -f 1 -d ':')
-        URL=$(echo $LINE | grep -IoE '\b(https?|ftp|file)://[-A-Za-z0-9+&@#/%?=~_|!:,.;]*[-A-Za-z0-9+&@#/%=~_|]')
-
-        # remove trailing / if it exists curl diferenciate between links with
-        # and without / at the end
-        # URL=`echo "$URL" | sed 's,/$,,'`
-        dict+=(["$URL"]="$FILE ")
-    done < <(grep -e 'https\?://' ${PROJECT} -RIa --exclude='*.exe' --exclude-dir=.git | tr '*' ' ')
-
-    for UNIQ_URL in ${!dict[@]} # loop urls
-    do
-     CURL_RES=$(curl -si --user-agent "${USER_AGENT}" ${UNIQ_URL} 2>/dev/null| head -n 1 | cut -f 2 -d ' ')
-     RES=$?
-
-        echo "================================="
-        echo "Checking URL: ${UNIQ_URL}"
-
-        if [ "${CURL_RES}" == '' -o "${CURL_RES}" != '200' ]
-        then
-            if [ "${CURL_RES}" == '' ]  # curl returned an error
-            then
-                CURL_RES=$RES
-                SCRIPT_RET=1
-                echo ERROR: Result is: "${CURL_RES}"
-            elif [ "${CURL_RES}" == '403' ]
-            then
-                SCRIPT_RET=1
-                echo ERROR: Result is: "${CURL_RES}"
-            else
-                echo WARNING: Result is: "${CURL_RES}"
-            fi
-        else
-            echo SUCCESS: Result is: "${CURL_RES}"
-        fi
-        echo "================================="
-    done
-
-    if [ "${SCRIPT_RET}" -eq 0 ]
-    then
-        exit 0
-    else
-        exit 1
-    fi
-}
-
-test
diff --git a/.github/workflows/ci.yml b/.github/workflows/ci.yml
index 46c6f7e..bc6d880 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/ci.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/ci.yml
@@ -12,6 +12,8 @@
       - uses: actions/checkout@v3
       - name: Check Formatting of FreeRTOS-Kernel Files
         uses: FreeRTOS/CI-CD-Github-Actions/formatting@main
+        with:
+          exclude-dirs: portable
 
   spell-check:
       runs-on: ubuntu-latest
@@ -30,18 +32,7 @@
       - name: Clone This Repo
         uses: actions/checkout@v3
       - name: Link Verification
-        uses: FreeRTOS/CI-CD-Github-Actions/link-verifier@v2
-
-  url-check:
-    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
-    steps:
-      - uses: actions/checkout@v3
-        with:
-          path: ./kernel
-
-      - name: URL Checker
-        run: |
-          bash kernel/.github/actions/url_verifier.sh kernel
+        uses: FreeRTOS/CI-CD-Github-Actions/link-verifier@main
 
   verify-manifest:
     runs-on: ubuntu-latest
diff --git a/.github/workflows/formatting.yml b/.github/workflows/formatting.yml
index 04786ba..14d41c9 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/formatting.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/formatting.yml
@@ -19,5 +19,7 @@
     runs-on: ubuntu-20.04
     steps:
     - name: Apply Formatting Fix
+      id: check-formatting  
       uses: FreeRTOS/CI-CD-Github-Actions/formatting-bot@main
-      id: check-formatting
+      with:
+        exclude-dirs: portable