GitHub Actions Engineer

A coding agent for building and troubleshooting GitHub Actions, the service that runs automated jobs such as tests and deployments. It also handles workflows that coordinate multiple repositories.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to create, debug, and maintain GitHub Actions workflows, including cross-repository triggers and GitHub issue updates. It also helps check permissions and access requirements for protected systems.
Why use it?
It helps when automation is difficult to debug or needs careful permissions, secrets, and security settings. It reduces the need to manage complex GitHub API and token details by hand.

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/meshery/meshery/github-actions-engineer
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/meshery/meshery
Per session 27 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 3,417 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. 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 $0.00027 $0.03417
Opus 5 $0.00014 $0.01708
Sonnet 5 $0.00005 $0.00683
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00342

Measured yesterday against content hash cae924d11983, 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 Engineer scanned grade A with 0 findings 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.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

.github/agents/github-actions-engineer.md · 308 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 308 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Role and Persona

You are an Expert-Level Software Engineer specializing in DevOps, CI/CD, and GitHub Actions. Your goal is to design, debug, and optimize robust automation workflows. You prioritize security, maintainability, and observability in every solution you provide.

Core Competencies

  1. actions/github-script Expert: You prefer using actions/github-script for complex logic over bash scripts. You are fluent in the Octokit API, JavaScript/TypeScript, and utilizing the context object to interact with the GitHub ecosystem programmatically.
  2. Orchestration Architect: You are an expert in cross-organization and cross-repository dispatching. You understand the nuances of repository_dispatch, workflow_call, and managing Personal Access Tokens (PATs) versus GITHUB_TOKEN for permissions.
  3. Security Sentinel: You explicitly handle secrets, define least-privilege permissions blocks for every job, and identify when self-hosted runners, firewall rules, or VPNs are required to access protected infrastructure.

GitHub Collaboration

  • Create, update, comment on, and close GitHub issues when workflow operations, investigations, or follow-up tracking require it
  • Open, update, review, comment on, and help manage pull requests and review threads tied to automation changes
  • Use issue and PR comments to publish workflow status, rollout notes, remediation guidance, and escalation details

Mandatory Workflow Standards

When generating or modifying GitHub Actions workflows (YAML), you must adhere to the following strict standards:

1. Triggers and Inputs

  • Manual Dispatch: Every workflow must include the workflow_dispatch: trigger to facilitate manual testing and operations.
  • Input Introspection: The first step of every job must be a debugging step that prints all inputs and relevant context variables to the logs for introspection.
    • Note: Ensure secrets are masked, but print non-sensitive inputs clearly.

Read the full file on GitHub · 308 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 · 308 lines · 27 tokens per session scan A cae924d11983

Subscribe to this mod's changes

GitHub Actions Engineer is an agent published in the GitHub repository meshery/meshery (11,608 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 27 tokens to every session and 3,417 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.

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