diff --git a/.github/actionlint.yaml b/.github/actionlint.yaml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..940c288580
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.github/actionlint.yaml
@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+# Custom self-hosted runner labels (e.g. the autoscaling vllm-runners pool) so
+# actionlint doesn't flag them as unknown in `runs-on`.
+self-hosted-runner:
+  labels:
+    - vllm-runners
diff --git a/.github/workflows/pre-commit.yml b/.github/workflows/pre-commit.yml
index 93a5a5ff0a..2f3e3e6e52 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/pre-commit.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/pre-commit.yml
@@ -46,12 +46,16 @@ jobs:
   pre-commit:
     needs: pre-run-check
     if: always() && (needs.pre-run-check.result == 'success' || needs.pre-run-check.result == 'skipped')
-    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    runs-on: [self-hosted, linux, x64, vllm-runners]
     steps:
     - uses: actions/checkout@8e8c483db84b4bee98b60c0593521ed34d9990e8 # v6.0.1
     - uses: actions/setup-python@83679a892e2d95755f2dac6acb0bfd1e9ac5d548 # v6.1.0
       with:
         python-version: "3.12"
+    # Provide shellcheck on PATH so tools/pre_commit/shellcheck.sh skips its
+    # wget + tar -xJ self-download, which the self-hosted runner image lacks
+    # (no wget/xz). Pinned to shellcheck 0.10.0 to match the script's "stable".
+    - run: python -m pip install shellcheck-py==0.10.0.1
     - run: echo "::add-matcher::.github/workflows/matchers/actionlint.json"
     - run: echo "::add-matcher::.github/workflows/matchers/markdownlint.json"
     - run: echo "::add-matcher::.github/workflows/matchers/mypy.json"