diff --git a/.gitea/workflows/renovate.yaml b/.gitea/workflows/renovate.yaml
index 19df32b..2c3311d 100644
--- a/.gitea/workflows/renovate.yaml
+++ b/.gitea/workflows/renovate.yaml
@@ -27,10 +27,6 @@ jobs:
             ${{ runner.os }}-renovate-discovery-${{ hashFiles('config.js') }}-
             ${{ runner.os }}-renovate-discovery-
       
-      - name: Install jq
-        run: |
-          apt-get update && apt-get install -y jq
-      
       - name: Discover Repositories
         run: |
           renovate --write-discovered-repos=/tmp/renovate-repos.json
@@ -52,29 +48,35 @@ jobs:
             exit 0
           fi
           
-          # Verify the file contains valid JSON
-          if ! jq empty /tmp/renovate-repos.json 2>/dev/null; then
-            echo "Invalid JSON in repositories file"
-            echo "batches=[]" >> $GITHUB_OUTPUT
-            exit 0
-          fi
-          
-          # Read the JSON array and create batches
-          echo "Creating batches of repositories..."
-          batches=$(jq -c 'if type == "array" then . else [] end | _nwise(5) | [.[]]' /tmp/renovate-repos.json)
-          
-          # Handle empty results
-          if [ "$batches" = "" ] || [ "$batches" = "null" ]; then
-            echo "No valid repositories found"
-            echo "batches=[]" >> $GITHUB_OUTPUT
-            exit 0
-          fi
-          
-          # Format as proper JSON array for GitHub Actions output
-          batches="[$(echo "$batches" | tr '\n' ',' | sed 's/,$//' )]"
-          echo "batches=$batches" >> $GITHUB_OUTPUT
-          
-          echo "Created $(echo "$batches" | jq '. | length') batches of repositories"
+          # Use node to process JSON instead of jq (Node.js is already installed in the container)
+          node -e '
+            const fs = require("fs");
+            try {
+              const data = fs.readFileSync("/tmp/renovate-repos.json", "utf8");
+              let repos = [];
+              try {
+                repos = JSON.parse(data);
+                if (!Array.isArray(repos)) {
+                  repos = [];
+                }
+              } catch (e) {
+                console.error("Invalid JSON:", e.message);
+              }
+              
+              // Create batches of 5 repos
+              const batches = [];
+              for (let i = 0; i < repos.length; i += 5) {
+                batches.push(repos.slice(i, i + 5));
+              }
+              
+              console.log(`Created ${batches.length} batches of repositories`);
+              // Output for GitHub Actions
+              fs.writeFileSync(process.env.GITHUB_OUTPUT, `batches=${JSON.stringify(batches)}\n`, {flag: "a"});
+            } catch (e) {
+              console.error("Error processing repositories:", e.message);
+              fs.writeFileSync(process.env.GITHUB_OUTPUT, "batches=[]\n", {flag: "a"});
+            }
+          '
 
   renovate:
     name: Run Renovate
@@ -100,31 +102,33 @@ jobs:
           restore-keys: |
             ${{ runner.os }}-renovate-
       
-      - name: Install jq
-        run: |
-          apt-get update && apt-get install -y jq
-      
       - name: Run Renovate on Batch
         run: |
-          # Simple processing of batch array without complex jq
-          REPOS=""
-          for repo in $(echo '${{ toJson(matrix.batch) }}' | jq -r '.[]'); do
-            if [ -n "$REPOS" ]; then
-              REPOS="$REPOS,$repo"
-            else
-              REPOS="$repo"
-            fi
-          done
+          # Use node to process the batch and generate comma-separated repo list
+          node -e '
+            const batch = JSON.parse(process.argv[1]);
+            if (batch && batch.length > 0) {
+              const repoList = batch.join(",");
+              console.log(`Processing repositories: ${repoList}`);
+              console.log(`::set-output name=repo_list::${repoList}`);
+            } else {
+              console.log("No repositories to process in this batch");
+              console.log("::set-output name=repo_list::");
+            }
+          ' '${{ toJson(matrix.batch) }}'
           
-          echo "Processing repositories: $REPOS"
+          # Get the repo list from the node script output
+          REPOS=$(node -e 'console.log(process.env.BATCH_JSON ? JSON.parse(process.env.BATCH_JSON).join(",") : "")' )
           
-          # Run Renovate on the specific repositories
+          # Run Renovate on the specific repositories if any were found
           if [ -n "$REPOS" ]; then
+            echo "Processing: $REPOS"
             renovate $REPOS
           else
             echo "No repositories to process in this batch"
           fi
         env:
+          BATCH_JSON: ${{ toJson(matrix.batch) }}
           RENOVATE_CONFIG_FILE: "config.js"
           RENOVATE_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.RENOVATE_TOKEN }}
           GITHUB_COM_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.GH_TOKEN }}