diff --git a/.github/workflows/codeowners-docs-engineering.yml b/.github/workflows/codeowners-docs-engineering.yml
index 85dc8e8248..dfa8ba11db 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/codeowners-docs-engineering.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/codeowners-docs-engineering.yml
@@ -20,7 +20,8 @@ on:
       - '**.tsx'
       - '**.scss'
       - 'src/**'
-      - '!src/**.json' # So that Docs Engineering isn't reviewing OpenAPI PRs
+      - '!src/**.json' # So that Docs Engineering isn't reviewing automated pipeline data PRs
+      - '!src/**.yml' # So that Docs Engineering isn't reviewing automated pipeline data PRs
       - '.github/**'
       - '**Dockerfile'
       - 'package*.json'
diff --git a/.github/workflows/sync-secret-scanning.yml b/.github/workflows/sync-secret-scanning.yml
index e0148542b7..d8d65f65af 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/sync-secret-scanning.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/sync-secret-scanning.yml
@@ -37,7 +37,7 @@ jobs:
         run: |
           npm run sync-secret-scanning
 
-      - name: Create and merge pull request
+      - name: Create a pull request
         env:
           # Needed for gh
           GITHUB_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.DOCS_BOT_PAT_READPUBLICKEY }}
@@ -70,7 +70,9 @@ jobs:
           echo "Creating pull request..."
           gh pr create \
             --title "Sync secret scanning data" \
-            --body '👋 humans. This PR updates the secret scanning data with the latest changes from github/token-scanning-service.\n\n/cc @github/docs-content-security-products
+            --body '👋 humans. This PR updates the secret scanning data with the latest changes from github/token-scanning-service. 
+            
+            /cc @github/docs-content-security-products
 
             If CI does not pass or other problems arise, contact #docs-engineering on slack.' \
             --repo github/docs-internal \
diff --git a/src/secret-scanning/scripts/sync.ts b/src/secret-scanning/scripts/sync.ts
index edb415fa2b..7950e6d10a 100755
--- a/src/secret-scanning/scripts/sync.ts
+++ b/src/secret-scanning/scripts/sync.ts
@@ -52,7 +52,7 @@ async function main() {
     throw new Error('The public-docs.yml file being synced does not have a valid schema')
   }
 
-  await writeFile(SECRET_SCANNING_FILEPATH, data)
+  await writeFile(SECRET_SCANNING_FILEPATH, yaml.dump(data))
 
   // update the config file with the latest sha
   const configFilepath = 'src/secret-scanning/lib/config.json'