diff --git a/.github/workflows/ci.yml b/.github/workflows/ci.yml
index 3d0c7a3f305..45b15c30816 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/ci.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/ci.yml
@@ -176,17 +176,14 @@ jobs:
         if: ${{ github.event_name == 'pull_request' }}
         run: |
           # Download the base benchmark locally (requires AWS creds and .git history)
-          scripts/logs/download_base_benchmark_from_s3.sh
-          cd yarn-project/scripts
-          # Package it into an earthly artifact
-          mkdir -p ./bench
-          earthly-ci -P +pack-base-benchmark
-          # Delete it so we don't accidentally bust the yarn-project+build cache
-          rm -rf ./bench
+          mkdir -p $BENCH_FOLDER
+          ./scripts/logs/download_base_benchmark_from_s3.sh
+          # Package it into an earthly artifact to read from bench-comment
+          earthly-ci -P ./scripts/logs+pack-base-benchmark --LOCAL_BENCH_FOLDER=$BENCH_FOLDER
         env:
           AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID: ${{ secrets.AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID }}
           AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY: ${{ secrets.AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY }}
-          BENCH_FOLDER: "./yarn-project/scripts/bench"
+          BENCH_FOLDER: "./scripts/logs/tmp/bench"
           PULL_REQUEST: "${{ github.event.pull_request.number }}"
       - name: "Generate summary comment if pull request"
         if: ${{ github.event_name == 'pull_request' }}
diff --git a/scripts/logs/Earthfile b/scripts/logs/Earthfile
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..1e073bcad37
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/logs/Earthfile
@@ -0,0 +1,19 @@
+VERSION 0.8
+FROM node:18.19.0
+
+pack-base-benchmark:
+  # Copies the base benchmark (ie the master run) into a container and packs it as an artifact,
+  # so it can be consumed from bench-comment. Note that we need to download base-benchmark 
+  # outside of this target beforehand. We cannot run it within an Earthly container because it needs
+  # access to the .git folder, and we cannot run it with a LOCALLY statement because Earthly does 
+  # not support secrets when running locally (and we need) the AWS access keys to access S3. 
+  # We also cannot COPY the local file directly from bench-comment, since the file must be present 
+  # within the build context so we can copy it (ie within yarn-project/scripts), and that invalidates 
+  # the cache of yarn-project+build since it does a `COPY . .`, and we cannot add the bench file to
+  # earthlyignore or we would not be able to copy it from anywhere. So we need to place this target
+  # outside yarn-project altogether, since that folder should not be modified.
+  ARG LOCAL_BENCH_FOLDER
+  FROM scratch
+  LET BENCH_FOLDER=/usr/var/bench
+  COPY $LOCAL_BENCH_FOLDER $BENCH_FOLDER
+  SAVE ARTIFACT $BENCH_FOLDER bench
diff --git a/yarn-project/scripts/Earthfile b/yarn-project/scripts/Earthfile
index e63227cc321..dc8d34361b4 100644
--- a/yarn-project/scripts/Earthfile
+++ b/yarn-project/scripts/Earthfile
@@ -41,25 +41,6 @@ bench-aggregate:
     || (echo "Not all log files from benchmark jobs found"; mkdir -p $BENCH_FOLDER)
   SAVE ARTIFACT $BENCH_FOLDER bench
 
-pack-base-benchmark:
-  # Copies the base benchmark (ie the master run) into a container and packs it as an artifact,
-  # so it can be consumed from bench-comment. Note that we need to download base-benchmark 
-  # outside of this target beforehand. We cannot run it within an Earthly container because it needs
-  # access to the .git folder, and we cannot run it with a LOCALLY statement because Earthly does 
-  # not support secrets when running locally (and we need) the AWS access keys to access S3. 
-  # We also cannot COPY the local file directly from bench-comment, since the file must be present 
-  # within  the build context so we can copy it (ie within yarn-project/scripts), and that invalidates 
-  # the cache of yarn-project+build since it does a `COPY . .`, and we cannot add the bench file to
-  # earthlyignore or we would not be able to copy it from anywhere.
-  ARG COMMIT_HASH
-  ARG PULL_REQUEST
-  ARG BRANCH
-  FROM scratch
-  LET LOCAL_BENCH_FOLDER=./bench
-  LET BENCH_FOLDER=/usr/var/bench
-  COPY $LOCAL_BENCH_FOLDER $BENCH_FOLDER
-  SAVE ARTIFACT $BENCH_FOLDER bench
-
 bench-comment:
   # Use the scripts image to run bench comment after loading the benchmark from bench-aggregate
   # and the base benchmark (ie the benches from master to compare to) from pack-base-benchmark.
@@ -73,7 +54,7 @@ bench-comment:
   ENV PULL_REQUEST=$PULL_REQUEST
   ENV PR_NUMBER=$PULL_REQUEST
   ENV BRANCH=$BRANCH
-  COPY +pack-base-benchmark/bench $BENCH_FOLDER/
+  COPY ../../scripts/logs+pack-base-benchmark/bench $BENCH_FOLDER/
   COPY +bench-aggregate/bench $BENCH_FOLDER/
   RUN echo "Bench folder contents $(ls $BENCH_FOLDER)"
   RUN --secret AZTEC_BOT_COMMENTER_GITHUB_TOKEN \