diff --git a/.github/workflows/ci.yml b/.github/workflows/ci.yml
index bb6bc325a3bb7..5d26d617ba88c 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/ci.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/ci.yml
@@ -11,11 +11,9 @@ name: CI
 on:
   push:
     branches:
-      - auto
-      - try
-      - try-perf
-      - automation/bors/try
       - automation/bors/auto
+      - automation/bors/try
+      - try-perf
   pull_request:
     branches:
       - "**"
@@ -33,9 +31,10 @@ defaults:
 
 concurrency:
   # For a given workflow, if we push to the same branch, cancel all previous builds on that branch.
-  # We add an exception for try builds (try branch) and unrolled rollup builds (try-perf), which
-  # are all triggered on the same branch, but which should be able to run concurrently.
-  group: ${{ github.workflow }}-${{ ((github.ref == 'refs/heads/try' || github.ref == 'refs/heads/try-perf' || github.ref == 'refs/heads/automation/bors/try') && github.sha) || github.ref }}
+  # We add an exception for try builds (automation/bors/try branch) and unrolled rollup builds
+  # (try-perf), which are all triggered on the same branch, but which should be able to run
+  # concurrently.
+  group: ${{ github.workflow }}-${{ ((github.ref == 'refs/heads/try-perf' || github.ref == 'refs/heads/automation/bors/try') && github.sha) || github.ref }}
   cancel-in-progress: true
 env:
   TOOLSTATE_REPO: "https://github.com/rust-lang-nursery/rust-toolstate"
@@ -57,7 +56,7 @@ jobs:
       - name: Test citool
         # Only test citool on the auto branch, to reduce latency of the calculate matrix job
         # on PR/try builds.
-        if: ${{ github.ref == 'refs/heads/auto' || github.ref == 'refs/heads/automation/bors/auto' }}
+        if: ${{ github.ref == 'refs/heads/automation/bors/auto' }}
         run: |
           cd src/ci/citool
           CARGO_INCREMENTAL=0 cargo test
@@ -80,7 +79,7 @@ jobs:
     # access the environment.
     #
     # We only enable the environment for the rust-lang/rust repository, so that CI works on forks.
-    environment: ${{ ((github.repository == 'rust-lang/rust' && (github.ref == 'refs/heads/try' || github.ref == 'refs/heads/try-perf' || github.ref == 'refs/heads/automation/bors/try' || github.ref == 'refs/heads/auto' || github.ref == 'refs/heads/automation/bors/auto')) && 'bors') || '' }}
+    environment: ${{ ((github.repository == 'rust-lang/rust' && (github.ref == 'refs/heads/try-perf' || github.ref == 'refs/heads/automation/bors/try' || github.ref == 'refs/heads/automation/bors/auto')) && 'bors') || '' }}
     env:
       CI_JOB_NAME: ${{ matrix.name }}
       CI_JOB_DOC_URL: ${{ matrix.doc_url }}
@@ -314,7 +313,7 @@ jobs:
     needs: [ calculate_matrix, job ]
     # !cancelled() executes the job regardless of whether the previous jobs passed or failed
     if: ${{ !cancelled() && contains(fromJSON('["auto", "try"]'), needs.calculate_matrix.outputs.run_type) }}
-    environment: ${{ ((github.repository == 'rust-lang/rust' && (github.ref == 'refs/heads/try' || github.ref == 'refs/heads/try-perf' || github.ref == 'refs/heads/automation/bors/try' || github.ref == 'refs/heads/auto' || github.ref == 'refs/heads/automation/bors/auto')) && 'bors') || '' }}
+    environment: ${{ ((github.repository == 'rust-lang/rust' && (github.ref == 'refs/heads/try-perf' || github.ref == 'refs/heads/automation/bors/try' || github.ref == 'refs/heads/automation/bors/auto')) && 'bors') || '' }}
     steps:
       - name: checkout the source code
         uses: actions/checkout@v5
diff --git a/src/ci/citool/src/main.rs b/src/ci/citool/src/main.rs
index d7b491d38f41f..01c0650b3c98f 100644
--- a/src/ci/citool/src/main.rs
+++ b/src/ci/citool/src/main.rs
@@ -41,14 +41,12 @@ impl GitHubContext {
         match (self.event_name.as_str(), self.branch_ref.as_str()) {
             ("pull_request", _) => Some(RunType::PullRequest),
             ("push", "refs/heads/try-perf") => Some(RunType::TryJob { job_patterns: None }),
-            ("push", "refs/heads/try" | "refs/heads/automation/bors/try") => {
+            ("push", "refs/heads/automation/bors/try") => {
                 let patterns = self.get_try_job_patterns();
                 let patterns = if !patterns.is_empty() { Some(patterns) } else { None };
                 Some(RunType::TryJob { job_patterns: patterns })
             }
-            ("push", "refs/heads/auto" | "refs/heads/automation/bors/auto") => {
-                Some(RunType::AutoJob)
-            }
+            ("push", "refs/heads/automation/bors/auto") => Some(RunType::AutoJob),
             ("push", "refs/heads/main") => Some(RunType::MainJob),
             _ => None,
         }
diff --git a/src/ci/citool/tests/jobs.rs b/src/ci/citool/tests/jobs.rs
index 5231d4616e049..6787f00d9af83 100644
--- a/src/ci/citool/tests/jobs.rs
+++ b/src/ci/citool/tests/jobs.rs
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ const TEST_JOBS_YML_PATH: &str = concat!(env!("CARGO_MANIFEST_DIR"), "/tests/tes
 
 #[test]
 fn auto_jobs() {
-    let stdout = get_matrix("push", "commit", "refs/heads/auto");
+    let stdout = get_matrix("push", "commit", "refs/heads/automation/bors/auto");
     insta::assert_snapshot!(stdout, @r#"
     jobs=[{"name":"aarch64-gnu","full_name":"auto - aarch64-gnu","os":"ubuntu-22.04-arm","env":{"ARTIFACTS_AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID":"AKIA46X5W6CZN24CBO55","AWS_REGION":"us-west-1","CACHES_AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID":"AKIA46X5W6CZI5DHEBFL","DEPLOY_BUCKET":"rust-lang-ci2","TOOLSTATE_PUBLISH":1},"free_disk":true},{"name":"x86_64-gnu-llvm-18-1","full_name":"auto - x86_64-gnu-llvm-18-1","os":"ubuntu-24.04","env":{"ARTIFACTS_AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID":"AKIA46X5W6CZN24CBO55","AWS_REGION":"us-west-1","CACHES_AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID":"AKIA46X5W6CZI5DHEBFL","DEPLOY_BUCKET":"rust-lang-ci2","DOCKER_SCRIPT":"stage_2_test_set1.sh","IMAGE":"x86_64-gnu-llvm-18","READ_ONLY_SRC":"0","RUST_BACKTRACE":1,"TOOLSTATE_PUBLISH":1},"free_disk":true},{"name":"aarch64-apple","full_name":"auto - aarch64-apple","os":"macos-14","env":{"ARTIFACTS_AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID":"AKIA46X5W6CZN24CBO55","AWS_REGION":"us-west-1","CACHES_AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID":"AKIA46X5W6CZI5DHEBFL","DEPLOY_BUCKET":"rust-lang-ci2","MACOSX_DEPLOYMENT_TARGET":11.0,"MACOSX_STD_DEPLOYMENT_TARGET":11.0,"NO_DEBUG_ASSERTIONS":1,"NO_LLVM_ASSERTIONS":1,"NO_OVERFLOW_CHECKS":1,"RUSTC_RETRY_LINKER_ON_SEGFAULT":1,"RUST_CONFIGURE_ARGS":"--enable-sanitizers --enable-profiler --set rust.jemalloc","SCRIPT":"./x.py --stage 2 test --host=aarch64-apple-darwin --target=aarch64-apple-darwin","SELECT_XCODE":"/Applications/Xcode_15.4.app","TOOLSTATE_PUBLISH":1,"USE_XCODE_CLANG":1}},{"name":"dist-i686-msvc","full_name":"auto - dist-i686-msvc","os":"windows-2022","env":{"ARTIFACTS_AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID":"AKIA46X5W6CZN24CBO55","AWS_REGION":"us-west-1","CACHES_AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID":"AKIA46X5W6CZI5DHEBFL","CODEGEN_BACKENDS":"llvm,cranelift","DEPLOY_BUCKET":"rust-lang-ci2","DIST_REQUIRE_ALL_TOOLS":1,"RUST_CONFIGURE_ARGS":"--build=i686-pc-windows-msvc --host=i686-pc-windows-msvc --target=i686-pc-windows-msvc,i586-pc-windows-msvc --enable-full-tools --enable-profiler","SCRIPT":"python x.py dist bootstrap --include-default-paths","TOOLSTATE_PUBLISH":1}},{"name":"pr-check-1","full_name":"auto - pr-check-1","os":"ubuntu-24.04","env":{"ARTIFACTS_AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID":"AKIA46X5W6CZN24CBO55","AWS_REGION":"us-west-1","CACHES_AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID":"AKIA46X5W6CZI5DHEBFL","DEPLOY_BUCKET":"rust-lang-ci2","TOOLSTATE_PUBLISH":1},"continue_on_error":false,"free_disk":true},{"name":"pr-check-2","full_name":"auto - pr-check-2","os":"ubuntu-24.04","env":{"ARTIFACTS_AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID":"AKIA46X5W6CZN24CBO55","AWS_REGION":"us-west-1","CACHES_AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID":"AKIA46X5W6CZI5DHEBFL","DEPLOY_BUCKET":"rust-lang-ci2","TOOLSTATE_PUBLISH":1},"continue_on_error":false,"free_disk":true},{"name":"tidy","full_name":"auto - tidy","os":"ubuntu-24.04","env":{"ARTIFACTS_AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID":"AKIA46X5W6CZN24CBO55","AWS_REGION":"us-west-1","CACHES_AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID":"AKIA46X5W6CZI5DHEBFL","DEPLOY_BUCKET":"rust-lang-ci2","TOOLSTATE_PUBLISH":1},"continue_on_error":false,"free_disk":true,"doc_url":"https://foo.bar"}]
     run_type=auto
@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ fn auto_jobs() {
 
 #[test]
 fn try_jobs() {
-    let stdout = get_matrix("push", "commit", "refs/heads/try");
+    let stdout = get_matrix("push", "commit", "refs/heads/automation/bors/try");
     insta::assert_snapshot!(stdout, @r###"
     jobs=[{"name":"dist-x86_64-linux","full_name":"try - dist-x86_64-linux","os":"ubuntu-22.04-16core-64gb","env":{"ARTIFACTS_AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID":"AKIA46X5W6CZN24CBO55","AWS_REGION":"us-west-1","CACHES_AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID":"AKIA46X5W6CZI5DHEBFL","CODEGEN_BACKENDS":"llvm,cranelift","DEPLOY_BUCKET":"rust-lang-ci2","DIST_TRY_BUILD":1,"TOOLSTATE_PUBLISH":1}}]
     run_type=try
@@ -28,7 +28,7 @@ fn try_custom_jobs() {
 
 try-job: aarch64-gnu
 try-job: dist-i686-msvc"#,
-        "refs/heads/try",
+        "refs/heads/automation/bors/try",
     );
     insta::assert_snapshot!(stdout, @r###"
     jobs=[{"name":"aarch64-gnu","full_name":"try - aarch64-gnu","os":"ubuntu-22.04-arm","env":{"ARTIFACTS_AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID":"AKIA46X5W6CZN24CBO55","AWS_REGION":"us-west-1","CACHES_AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID":"AKIA46X5W6CZI5DHEBFL","DEPLOY_BUCKET":"rust-lang-ci2","TOOLSTATE_PUBLISH":1},"free_disk":true},{"name":"dist-i686-msvc","full_name":"try - dist-i686-msvc","os":"windows-2022","env":{"ARTIFACTS_AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID":"AKIA46X5W6CZN24CBO55","AWS_REGION":"us-west-1","CACHES_AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID":"AKIA46X5W6CZI5DHEBFL","CODEGEN_BACKENDS":"llvm,cranelift","DEPLOY_BUCKET":"rust-lang-ci2","DIST_REQUIRE_ALL_TOOLS":1,"RUST_CONFIGURE_ARGS":"--build=i686-pc-windows-msvc --host=i686-pc-windows-msvc --target=i686-pc-windows-msvc,i586-pc-windows-msvc --enable-full-tools --enable-profiler","SCRIPT":"python x.py dist bootstrap --include-default-paths","TOOLSTATE_PUBLISH":1}}]
diff --git a/src/ci/scripts/verify-channel.sh b/src/ci/scripts/verify-channel.sh
index cac8ba332ed19..286869e8a411b 100755
--- a/src/ci/scripts/verify-channel.sh
+++ b/src/ci/scripts/verify-channel.sh
@@ -8,8 +8,7 @@ IFS=$'\n\t'
 
 source "$(cd "$(dirname "$0")" && pwd)/../shared.sh"
 
-if isCiBranch auto || isCiBranch try || isCiBranch try-perf || \
-   isCiBranch automation/bors/try || isCiBranch automation/bors/auto; then
+if isCiBranch try-perf || isCiBranch automation/bors/try || isCiBranch automation/bors/auto; then
     echo "channel verification is only executed on PR builds"
     exit
 fi