diff --git a/.github/workflows/lint-changed-files.yaml b/.github/workflows/lint-changed-files.yaml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..d57b6ed4fd
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.github/workflows/lint-changed-files.yaml
@@ -0,0 +1,53 @@
+on:
+  pull_request:
+    branches:
+      - main
+      - master
+
+name: lint-changed-files
+
+jobs:
+  lint-changed-files:
+    runs-on: macOS-latest
+    env:
+      GITHUB_PAT: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
+    steps:
+      - uses: actions/checkout@v2
+
+      - uses: r-lib/actions/setup-r@v1
+
+      - name: Query dependencies
+        run: |
+          install.packages('remotes')
+          saveRDS(remotes::dev_package_deps(dependencies = TRUE), ".github/depends.Rds", version = 2)
+          writeLines(sprintf("R-%i.%i", getRversion()$major, getRversion()$minor), ".github/R-version")
+        shell: Rscript {0}
+
+      - name: Cache R packages
+        uses: actions/cache@v2
+        with:
+          path: ${{ env.R_LIBS_USER }}
+          key: ${{ runner.os }}-${{ hashFiles('.github/R-version') }}-1-${{ hashFiles('.github/depends.Rds') }}
+          restore-keys: ${{ runner.os }}-${{ hashFiles('.github/R-version') }}-1-
+
+      - name: Install dependencies
+        run: |
+          install.packages(c("remotes"))
+          remotes::install_deps(dependencies = TRUE)
+          remotes::install_cran("gh")
+          remotes::install_github("jimhester/lintr")
+          remotes::install_cran("purrr")
+        shell: Rscript {0}
+
+      - name: Add lintr options
+        run: cat('\noptions(lintr.linter_file = ".lintr_new")\n', file = "~/.Rprofile", append = TRUE)
+        shell: Rscript {0}
+
+      - name: Extract and lint files changed by this PR
+        run: |
+          files <- gh::gh("GET https://api.github.com/repos/jimhester/lintr/pulls/${{ github.event.pull_request.number }}/files")
+          changed_files <- purrr::map_chr(files, "filename")
+          all_files <- list.files(recursive = TRUE)
+          exclusions_list <- as.list(setdiff(all_files, changed_files))
+          lintr::lint_package(exclusions = exclusions_list)
+        shell: Rscript {0}
diff --git a/.lintr_new b/.lintr_new
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index 0000000000..a8be72455b
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+++ b/.lintr_new
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+linters: with_defaults(
+    line_length_linter = line_length_linter(120)
+  )
+exclusions: list(
+  "tests/testthat/dummy_packages",
+  "tests/testthat/knitr_formats",
+  "tests/testthat/knitr_malformed",
+  "inst",
+  "vignettes"
+ )
diff --git a/NEWS.md b/NEWS.md
index 836ef2c305..f047df08f4 100644
--- a/NEWS.md
+++ b/NEWS.md
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 # lintr (development version)
 
+* Added a secondary, more restrictive lint workflow - `lint-changed-files` - for newly written / modified code (#641, @dragosmg) 
 * Switched CI from Travis to GitHub Actions, using the full tidyverse recommended R CMD check. Code coverage and linting are implemented using separate GitHub Actions workflows (#572, @dragosmg)
 * `save_cache` will now recursively create the cache directory; this avoids errors that could arise if any parent directories do not exist (#60, @dankessler).
 * `extract_r_source` handles Rmd containing unevaluated code blocks with named