diff --git a/.github/RELEASE_CHECKLIST.md b/.github/RELEASE_CHECKLIST.md
index 9a1905c7a..3e0b19ec6 100644
--- a/.github/RELEASE_CHECKLIST.md
+++ b/.github/RELEASE_CHECKLIST.md
@@ -9,11 +9,10 @@
 7. Create a PR from `dev` to `master`
 8. Make sure all CI tests are passing again (additional tests are run on PRs to `master`)
 9. Request review (2 approvals required)
-10. Run `rich-codex` to regenerate docs screengrabs (actions `workflow_dispatch` button)
-11. Merge the PR into `master`
-12. Wait for CI tests on the commit to passed
-13. (Optional but a good idea) Run a manual sync on `nf-core/testpipeline` and check that CI is passing on the resulting PR.
-14. Create a new release copying the `CHANGELOG` for that release into the description section.
+10. Merge the PR into `master`
+11. Wait for CI tests on the commit to passed
+12. (Optional but a good idea) Run a manual sync on `nf-core/testpipeline` and check that CI is passing on the resulting PR.
+13. Create a new release copying the `CHANGELOG` for that release into the description section.
 
 ## After release
 
@@ -21,3 +20,4 @@
 2. Check that the automatic `PyPi` deployment has worked: [pypi.org/project/nf-core](https://pypi.org/project/nf-core/)
 3. Check `BioConda` has an automated PR to bump the version, and merge. eg. [bioconda/bioconda-recipes #20065](https://github.com/bioconda/bioconda-recipes/pull/20065)
 4. Create a tools PR to `dev` to bump back to the next development version in `CHANGELOG.md` and `setup.py` and change the gitpod container to `nfcore/gitpod:dev`.
+5. Run `rich-codex` on the [tools/website repo](https://github.com/nf-core/website/actions/workflows/rich-codex.yml) to regenerate docs screengrabs (actions `workflow_dispatch` button)
diff --git a/.github/workflows/rich-codex.yml b/.github/workflows/rich-codex.yml
deleted file mode 100644
index cd12b139d..000000000
--- a/.github/workflows/rich-codex.yml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,39 +0,0 @@
-name: Generate images for docs
-on:
-  workflow_dispatch:
-jobs:
-  rich_codex:
-    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
-    steps:
-      - name: Check out the repo
-        uses: actions/checkout@0ad4b8fadaa221de15dcec353f45205ec38ea70b # v4
-      - name: Set up Python
-        uses: actions/setup-python@82c7e631bb3cdc910f68e0081d67478d79c6982d # v5
-        with:
-          python-version: 3.x
-          cache: pip
-          cache-dependency-path: setup.py
-
-      - name: Install Nextflow
-        uses: nf-core/setup-nextflow@v2
-
-      - name: Install nf-test
-        uses: nf-core/setup-nf-test@v1
-
-      - name: Install nf-core/tools
-        run: pip install git+https://github.com/nf-core/tools.git@dev
-
-      - name: Generate terminal images with rich-codex
-        uses: ewels/rich-codex@8ce988cc253c240a3027ba58e33e47640935dd8b # v1
-        env:
-          COLUMNS: 100
-          HIDE_PROGRESS: "true"
-        with:
-          commit_changes: "true"
-          clean_img_paths: docs/images/*.svg
-          terminal_width: 100
-          before_command: >
-            which nextflow &&
-            which nf-core &&
-            nextflow -version &&
-            nf-core --version
diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 1904cd99c..7473015f5 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -86,6 +86,7 @@
 ### General
 
 - Update output of generation script for API docs to new structure ([#2988](https://github.com/nf-core/tools/pull/2988))
+- Remove `rich-codex.yml` action, images are now generated on the website repo ([#2989](https://github.com/nf-core/tools/pull/2989))
 - Add no clobber and put bash options on their own line ([#2991](https://github.com/nf-core/tools/pull/2991))
 - move pipeline subcommands for v3.0 ([#2983](https://github.com/nf-core/tools/pull/2983))
 - return directory if base_dir is the root directory ([#3003](https://github.com/nf-core/tools/pull/3003))