diff --git a/.changeset/modern-gifts-end.md b/.changeset/modern-gifts-end.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..f2f814872f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.changeset/modern-gifts-end.md
@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+---
+"@pnpm/filter-workspace-packages": minor
+---
+
+New optional option added to `readProjects()`: engineStrict.
diff --git a/packages/filter-workspace-packages/src/getChangedPackages.ts b/packages/filter-workspace-packages/src/getChangedPackages.ts
index df0d501a42..ac282234f7 100644
--- a/packages/filter-workspace-packages/src/getChangedPackages.ts
+++ b/packages/filter-workspace-packages/src/getChangedPackages.ts
@@ -67,7 +67,7 @@ async function getChangedDirsSinceCommit (commit: string, workingDir: string, te
   const patterns = changedFilesIgnorePattern.filter(
     (pattern) => pattern.length
   )
-  const changedFiles = patterns.length
+  const changedFiles = (patterns.length > 0)
     ? micromatch.not(allChangedFiles, patterns, {
       dot: true,
     })
diff --git a/packages/filter-workspace-packages/src/index.ts b/packages/filter-workspace-packages/src/index.ts
index f196278d3b..a14d83257e 100644
--- a/packages/filter-workspace-packages/src/index.ts
+++ b/packages/filter-workspace-packages/src/index.ts
@@ -33,11 +33,12 @@ export async function readProjects (
   workspaceDir: string,
   pkgSelectors: PackageSelector[],
   opts?: {
+    engineStrict?: boolean
     linkWorkspacePackages?: boolean
     changedFilesIgnorePattern?: string[]
   }
 ) {
-  const allProjects = await findWorkspacePackages(workspaceDir, {})
+  const allProjects = await findWorkspacePackages(workspaceDir, { engineStrict: opts?.engineStrict })
   const { selectedProjectsGraph } = await filterPkgsBySelectorObjects(
     allProjects,
     pkgSelectors,