diff --git a/.github/workflows/tests.yml b/.github/workflows/tests.yml
@@ -189,13 +189,14 @@ jobs:
         run: echo "$PWD/.venv/bin" >> $GITHUB_PATH
       - name: List 3rd-party stub dependencies installed
         run: uv pip freeze
-      - name: Run pyright with basic settings on all the stubs
+      - name: Run pyright with basic settings on stubs excluded from stricter checks
         uses: jakebailey/pyright-action@v3
         with:
           version: PATH
           python-platform: ${{ matrix.python-platform }}
           python-version: ${{ matrix.python-version }}
           annotate: ${{ matrix.python-version == '3.13' && matrix.python-platform == 'Linux' }} # Having each job create the same comment is too noisy.
+          project: ./pyrightconfig.basic.json
       - name: Run pyright with stricter settings on some of the stubs
         uses: jakebailey/pyright-action@v3
         with:

diff --git a/pyrightconfig.basic.json b/pyrightconfig.basic.json
@@ -0,0 +1,100 @@
+{
+    "$schema": "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/microsoft/pyright/main/packages/vscode-pyright/schemas/pyrightconfig.schema.json",
+    "extends": "./pyrightconfig.json",
+    // Keep in sync with the exclude list in pyrightconfig.stricter.json.
+    "include": [
+        "**/@tests/test_cases",
+        "stdlib/__main__.pyi",
+        "stdlib/_operator.pyi",
+        "stdlib/_tkinter.pyi",
+        "stdlib/distutils/cmd.pyi",
+        "stdlib/distutils/command",
+        "stdlib/distutils/dist.pyi",
+        "stdlib/encodings/__init__.pyi",
+        "stdlib/lib2to3/fixes/*.pyi",
+        "stdlib/numbers.pyi",
+        "stdlib/operator.pyi",
+        "stdlib/tkinter/__init__.pyi",
+        "stdlib/tkinter/dialog.pyi",
+        "stdlib/tkinter/filedialog.pyi",
+        "stdlib/tkinter/scrolledtext.pyi",
+        "stdlib/tkinter/tix.pyi",
+        "stdlib/tkinter/ttk.pyi",
+        "stubs/antlr4-python3-runtime",
+        "stubs/auth0-python",
+        "stubs/Authlib",
+        "stubs/aws-xray-sdk",
+        "stubs/behave",
+        "stubs/boltons",
+        "stubs/braintree",
+        "stubs/cffi",
+        "stubs/colorful",
+        "stubs/dateparser",
+        "stubs/defusedxml",
+        "stubs/docker",
+        "stubs/docutils",
+        "stubs/Flask-SocketIO",
+        "stubs/gdb",
+        "stubs/geojson",
+        "stubs/geopandas",
+        "stubs/google-cloud-ndb",
+        "stubs/grpcio-channelz/grpc_channelz/v1",
+        "stubs/grpcio-health-checking/grpc_health/v1/health_pb2_grpc.pyi",
+        "stubs/grpcio-reflection/grpc_reflection/v1alpha",
+        "stubs/grpcio-status/grpc_status",
+        "stubs/grpcio/grpc/__init__.pyi",
+        "stubs/gunicorn/gunicorn/dirty",
+        "stubs/hdbcli/hdbcli/dbapi.pyi",
+        "stubs/html5lib",
+        "stubs/httplib2",
+        "stubs/hvac",
+        "stubs/jsonschema",
+        "stubs/jwcrypto",
+        "stubs/kafka-python",
+        "stubs/ldap3",
+        "stubs/m3u8/m3u8/model.pyi",
+        "stubs/Markdown",
+        "stubs/mock/mock/mock.pyi",
+        "stubs/mysqlclient",
+        "stubs/netaddr/netaddr/core.pyi",
+        "stubs/netaddr/netaddr/ip/__init__.pyi",
+        "stubs/netaddr/netaddr/ip/iana.pyi",
+        "stubs/networkx",
+        "stubs/oauthlib",
+        "stubs/openpyxl",
+        "stubs/opentracing/opentracing/span.pyi",
+        "stubs/paramiko/paramiko/_winapi.pyi",
+        "stubs/parsimonious/parsimonious/nodes.pyi",
+        "stubs/peewee",
+        "stubs/pexpect",
+        "stubs/pika/pika/adapters/twisted_connection.pyi",
+        "stubs/pika/pika/adapters/utils/connection_workflow.pyi",
+        "stubs/pika/pika/callback.pyi",
+        "stubs/pika/pika/channel.pyi",
+        "stubs/pony",
+        "stubs/protobuf",
+        "stubs/psutil/psutil/__init__.pyi",
+        "stubs/psycopg2",
+        "stubs/punq",
+        "stubs/pyasn1",
+        "stubs/pycups",
+        "stubs/Pygments",
+        "stubs/PyMySQL",
+        "stubs/pyogrio",
+        "stubs/python-jose",
+        "stubs/pywin32",
+        "stubs/PyYAML",
+        "stubs/reportlab",
+        "stubs/requests",
+        "stubs/requests-oauthlib",
+        "stubs/seaborn",
+        "stubs/setuptools/setuptools",
+        "stubs/shapely",
+        "stubs/simple-websocket",
+        "stubs/tensorflow",
+        "stubs/tqdm",
+        "stubs/vobject",
+        "stubs/workalendar",
+        "stubs/xmldiff",
+    ],
+}
diff --git a/tests/check_typeshed_structure.py b/tests/check_typeshed_structure.py
@@ -188,6 +188,18 @@ def check_pyright_exclude_order() -> None:
         ), f"Entry '{exclude[i]}' should come before '{exclude[i + 1]}' in the {PYRIGHT_CONFIG.name} exclude list"
 
 
+def check_pyright_configs_consistent() -> None:
+    """Check that basic and stricter Pyright runs cover complementary paths."""
+    stricter_config = json.loads(jsonc_to_json(PYRIGHT_CONFIG.read_text(encoding="utf-8")))
+    basic_config_path = PYRIGHT_CONFIG.with_name("pyrightconfig.basic.json")
+    basic_config = json.loads(jsonc_to_json(basic_config_path.read_text(encoding="utf-8")))
+
+    assert basic_config.get("extends") == "./pyrightconfig.json"
+    assert basic_config.get("include") == stricter_config.get(
+        "exclude"
+    ), f"The include list in {basic_config_path.name} must match the exclude list in {PYRIGHT_CONFIG.name}"
+
+
 if __name__ == "__main__":
     check_versions_file()
     check_metadata()
@@ -198,3 +210,4 @@ def check_pyright_exclude_order() -> None:
     check_distutils()
     check_test_cases()
     check_pyright_exclude_order()
+    check_pyright_configs_consistent()