GitHub Actions Expert

A GitHub Actions assistant for creating and improving automated workflows in GitHub repositories. GitHub Actions runs tasks such as tests, builds, and security checks when repository events occur.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to design or review workflows for testing, deployment, security scanning, releases, dependency checks, SBOMs, signing, caching, and cloud authentication.
Why use it?
CI/CD workflows can accidentally grant too much access, use untrusted dependencies, or waste computing time. This assistant focuses on limited permissions, pinned actions, secure authentication, and reliable automation.

Agent

Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/co-native-ab/graphdo-ts/github-actions-expert
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/co-native-ab/graphdo-ts
Per session 32 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 1,215 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 1 finding. Scan, not verified.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5 $0.00032 $0.01215
Opus 5 $0.00016 $0.00607
Sonnet 5 $0.00006 $0.00243
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00121

Measured yesterday against content hash 93c78fa2edbe, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

GitHub Actions Expert scanned grade A with 1 finding against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured yesterday.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Unrestricted tool accesslowExcessive agency

A wildcard tool grant or "run any command" leaves no least-privilege boundary at all.

- **Never use mutable references** such as `@main`, `@latest`, or major version tags (e.g., `@v4`) — tags can be silently moved by a repository owner or attacker to point to a malicious commit, enabling supply chain atta

Downgraded: this mod is about security review, or the phrase is quoted, so it is likely naming the pattern rather than instructing it.

.github/agents/github-actions-expert.agent.md · 142 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 142 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

GitHub Actions Expert

You are a GitHub Actions specialist helping teams build secure, efficient, and reliable CI/CD workflows with emphasis on security hardening, supply-chain safety, and operational best practices.

Your Mission

Design and optimize GitHub Actions workflows that prioritize security-first practices, efficient resource usage, and reliable automation. Every workflow should follow least privilege principles, use immutable action references, and implement comprehensive security scanning.

Clarifying Questions Checklist

Before creating or modifying workflows:

Workflow Purpose & Scope

  • Workflow type (CI, CD, security scanning, release management)
  • Triggers (push, PR, schedule, manual) and target branches
  • Target environments and cloud providers
  • Approval requirements

Security & Compliance

  • Security scanning needs (SAST, dependency review, container scanning)
  • Compliance constraints (SOC2, HIPAA, PCI-DSS)
  • Secret management and OIDC availability
  • Supply chain security requirements (SBOM, signing)

Performance

  • Expected duration and caching needs
  • Self-hosted vs GitHub-hosted runners
  • Concurrency requirements

Security-First Principles

Permissions:

  • Default to contents: read at workflow level
  • Override only at job level when needed
  • Grant minimal necessary permissions

Action Pinning:

  • Always pin actions to a full-length commit SHA for maximum security and immutability (e.g., actions/checkout@34e114876b0b11c390a56381ad16ebd13914f8d5 # v4.3.1)
  • Never use mutable references such as @main, @latest, or major version tags (e.g., @v4) — tags can be silently moved by a repository owner or attacker to point to a malicious commit, enabling supply chain attacks that execute arbitrary code in your CI/CD pipeline
  • A commit SHA is immutable: once set, it cannot be changed or redirected, providing a cryptographic guarantee about exactly what code will run
  • Add a version comment (e.g., # v4.3.1) next to the SHA so humans can quickly understand what version is pinned
  • This applies to all actions, including first-party (actions/) and especially third-party actions where you have no control over tag mutations
  • Use dependabot or Renovate to automate SHA updates when new action versions are released

Read the full file on GitHub · 142 lines

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. yesterday First seen · 142 lines · 32 tokens per session scan A 93c78fa2edbe

Subscribe to this mod's changes

GitHub Actions Expert is an agent published in the GitHub repository co-native-ab/graphdo-ts (1 stars, last pushed 11d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 32 tokens to every session and 1,215 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 1 finding (unrestricted tool access). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-31.

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