diff --git a/.github/workflows/coverage.yml b/.github/workflows/coverage.yml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..4fe56e0
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.github/workflows/coverage.yml
@@ -0,0 +1,99 @@
+name: "coverage generation"
+
+on:
+  push:
+    branches:
+      - main
+    paths-ignore:
+      - "evm-template/**"
+      - "**.md"
+      - "**.adoc"
+  pull_request:
+    paths-ignore:
+      - "evm-template/**"
+      - "**.md"
+      - "**.adoc"
+  workflow_dispatch:
+    inputs:
+      test-macos:
+        description: "run tests on macOS"
+        required: true
+        default: false
+        type: boolean
+
+# If new code is pushed to a PR branch, then cancel in progress workflows for
+# that PR. Ensures that we don't waste CI time, and returns results quicker.
+concurrency:
+  group: ${{ github.workflow }}-${{ github.ref }}
+  cancel-in-progress: true
+
+env:
+  # Not needed in CI, should make things a bit faster
+  CARGO_INCREMENTAL: 0
+  CARGO_TERM_COLOR: always
+  # Remove unnecessary WASM build artifacts
+  WASM_BUILD_CLEAN_TARGET: 1
+  # stripping symbols and optimizing for binary size
+  RUSTFLAGS: -C strip=symbols -C opt-level=s
+  # Enable sscache
+  RUSTC_WRAPPER: "sccache"
+  SCCACHE_GHA_ENABLED: "true"
+  SCCACHE_CACHE_SIZE: "50GB"
+
+jobs:
+  clippy-fmt-test:
+    strategy:
+      fail-fast: false
+      matrix:
+        os:
+          - ubuntu-22.04
+          - macos-12
+        run-all:
+          - ${{ inputs.test-macos == true || github.ref == 'refs/heads/main' }}
+        exclude: # exclude macos-12 when the condition is false
+          - run-all: false
+            os: macos-12
+
+    runs-on: ${{ matrix.os }}
+    defaults:
+      run:
+        working-directory: ./
+    steps:
+      - name: git checkout
+        uses: actions/checkout@v4
+
+      - name: Run sccache
+        uses: mozilla-actions/sccache-action@v0.0.4
+
+      - name: Install Protoc
+        uses: arduino/setup-protoc@9b1ee5b22b0a3f1feb8c2ff99b32c89b3c3191e9 # v2.0.0
+        with:
+          repo-token: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
+
+      - name: install rust toolchain
+        uses: actions-rust-lang/setup-rust-toolchain@v1
+        with:
+          components: clippy, rustfmt
+      
+      - name: "Install cargo-llvm-cov"
+        uses: taiki-e/install-action@v2
+        with:
+          tool: cargo-llvm-cov
+
+      - name: Generate generic runtime coverage
+        run: |
+          ls -l
+          cd generic-template/runtime
+          cargo llvm-cov --all-features --ignore-filename-regex ".*(weights|benchmark).*" --codecov --output-path lcov.info
+
+      - name: Generate EVM runtime coverage
+        run: |
+          cd evm-template/runtime
+          cargo llvm-cov --all-features --ignore-filename-regex ".*(weights|benchmark).*" --codecov --output-path lcov.info
+
+      - name: Upload coverage reports to Codecov
+        uses: codecov/codecov-action@v3
+        env:
+          CODECOV_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.CODECOV_TOKEN }}
+          files: ./generic-template/runtime/lcov.info,./evm-template/runtime/lcov.info
+          fail_ci_if_error: true
diff --git a/.github/workflows/evm.yml b/.github/workflows/evm.yml
index fb1b07a..3f09864 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/evm.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/evm.yml
@@ -111,10 +111,3 @@ jobs:
         run: cargo doc --release --locked --all --no-deps
         env:
           RUSTDOCFLAGS: "-D rustdoc::broken-intra-doc-links -D rustdoc::private_intra_doc_links"
-
-      # Will enable the below back again once we tackle #260
-      # FIXME: Calculate coverage and define how to upload all template coverage reports
-      # - name: Upload coverage reports to Codecov
-      #   uses: codecov/codecov-action@v3
-      #   env:
-      #     CODECOV_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.CODECOV_TOKEN }}
diff --git a/.github/workflows/generic.yml b/.github/workflows/generic.yml
index d752974..ed0438e 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/generic.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/generic.yml
@@ -111,10 +111,3 @@ jobs:
         run: cargo doc --release --locked --all --no-deps
         env:
           RUSTDOCFLAGS: "-D rustdoc::broken-intra-doc-links -D rustdoc::private_intra_doc_links"
-
-      # Will enable the below back again once we tackle #260
-      # FIXME: Calculate coverage and define how to upload all template coverage reports
-      # - name: Upload coverage reports to Codecov
-      #   uses: codecov/codecov-action@v3
-      #   env:
-      #     CODECOV_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.CODECOV_TOKEN }}