diff --git a/.github/workflows/check-maintainers-sorted.yml b/.github/workflows/check-maintainers-sorted.yml
deleted file mode 100644
index 3b9b5ee7fba2..000000000000
--- a/.github/workflows/check-maintainers-sorted.yml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,28 +0,0 @@
-name: "Check that maintainer list is sorted"
-
-on:
-  pull_request_target:
-    paths:
-      - 'maintainers/maintainer-list.nix'
-
-permissions: {}
-
-jobs:
-  nixos:
-    name: maintainer-list-check
-    runs-on: ubuntu-24.04
-    steps:
-      - uses: actions/checkout@11bd71901bbe5b1630ceea73d27597364c9af683 # v4.2.2
-        with:
-          ref: refs/pull/${{ github.event.pull_request.number }}/merge
-          # Only these directories to perform the check
-          sparse-checkout: |
-            lib
-            maintainers
-
-      - uses: cachix/install-nix-action@526118121621777ccd86f79b04685a9319637641 # v31
-        with:
-          extra_nix_config: sandbox = true
-
-      - name: Check that maintainer-list.nix is sorted
-        run: nix-instantiate --eval maintainers/scripts/check-maintainers-sorted.nix
diff --git a/maintainers/maintainer-list.nix b/maintainers/maintainer-list.nix
index 73941cecfc3d..363ec5e6b2fd 100644
--- a/maintainers/maintainer-list.nix
+++ b/maintainers/maintainer-list.nix
@@ -65,6 +65,8 @@
    file located in the root of the Nixpkgs repo.
 */
 {
+  # keep-sorted start case=no numeric=no block=yes
+
   _0b11stan = {
     name = "Tristan Auvinet Pinaudeau";
     email = "tristan@tic.sh";
@@ -27450,5 +27452,6 @@
     githubId = 59917878;
     name = "Mathias Zhang";
   };
+  # keep-sorted end
 }
 # Keep the list alphabetically sorted.
diff --git a/maintainers/scripts/check-maintainers-sorted.nix b/maintainers/scripts/check-maintainers-sorted.nix
deleted file mode 100644
index 606a72c0aa9b..000000000000
--- a/maintainers/scripts/check-maintainers-sorted.nix
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,87 +0,0 @@
-let
-  lib = import ../../lib;
-  inherit (lib)
-    add
-    attrNames
-    elemAt
-    foldl'
-    genList
-    length
-    replaceStrings
-    sort
-    toLower
-    trace
-    ;
-
-  maintainers = import ../maintainer-list.nix;
-  simplify = replaceStrings [ "-" "_" ] [ "" "" ];
-  compare = a: b: simplify (toLower a) < simplify (toLower b);
-  namesSorted = sort (a: b: a.key < b.key) (
-    map (
-      n:
-      let
-        pos = builtins.unsafeGetAttrPos n maintainers;
-      in
-      assert pos == null -> throw "maintainers entry ${n} is malformed";
-      {
-        name = n;
-        line = pos.line;
-        key = toLower (simplify n);
-      }
-    ) (attrNames maintainers)
-  );
-  before =
-    {
-      name,
-      line,
-      key,
-    }:
-    foldl' (
-      acc: n: if n.key < key && (acc == null || n.key > acc.key) then n else acc
-    ) null namesSorted;
-  errors = foldl' add 0 (
-    map (
-      i:
-      let
-        a = elemAt namesSorted i;
-        b = elemAt namesSorted (i + 1);
-        lim =
-          let
-            t = before a;
-          in
-          if t == null then "the initial {" else t.name;
-      in
-      if a.line >= b.line then
-        trace (
-          "maintainer ${a.name} (line ${toString a.line}) should be listed "
-          + "after ${lim}, not after ${b.name} (line ${toString b.line})"
-        ) 1
-      else
-        0
-    ) (genList (i: i) (length namesSorted - 1))
-  );
-in
-assert errors == 0;
-"all good!"
-
-# generate edit commands to sort the list.
-# may everything following the last current entry (closing } ff) in the wrong place
-# with lib;
-# concatStringsSep
-#   "\n"
-#   (let first = foldl' (acc: n: if n.line < acc then n.line else acc) 999999999 namesSorted;
-#        commands = map
-#          (i: let e = elemAt namesSorted i;
-#                  begin = foldl'
-#                    (acc: n: if n.line < e.line && n.line > acc then n.line else acc)
-#                    1
-#                    namesSorted;
-#                  end =
-#                    foldl' (acc: n: if n.line > e.line && n.line < acc then n.line else acc)
-#                      999999999
-#                      namesSorted;
-#              in "${toString e.line},${toString (end - 1)} p")
-#          (genList (i: i) (length namesSorted));
-#    in map
-#      (c: "sed -ne '${c}' maintainers/maintainer-list.nix")
-#      ([ "1,${toString (first - 1)} p" ] ++ commands))