github-actions-generator

github-actions-generator is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from akin-ozer/cc-devops-skills. It costs 27 tokens per session (2,841 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A generator for GitHub Actions workflows and custom actions. GitHub Actions is GitHub's built-in system for automatically running tasks such as tests, builds, security checks, and deployments.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to create CI/CD workflows, composite, Docker, or JavaScript actions, reusable workflows, dependency reviews, and software bills of materials.
Why use it?
It helps turn a project's automation needs into workflow files and validates generated resources. It also covers reusable patterns for sharing automation across repositories.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Part of the devops-skills-plugin plugin — 31 skills shipped together

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 skills/akin-ozer/cc-devops-skills/github-actions-generator
Any agent
npx skills add akin-ozer/cc-devops-skills --skill github-actions-generator
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/akin-ozer/cc-devops-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install devops-skills-plugin, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 31 skills.

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README.md
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Per session 27 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,841 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 $0.02841
Opus 5 $0.00014 $0.01421
Sonnet 5 $0.00005 $0.00568
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00284

Measured 3d ago against content hash 485a62c648f2, 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-generator 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 3d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 3 executable files (assets/templates/action/docker/entrypoint.sh, assets/templates/action/javascript/index.js, scripts/test_generator.sh), listed below but not scanned — reading those needs a real analyzer, not pattern matching.

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.

devops-skills-plugin/skills/github-actions-generator/SKILL.md · 351 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 351 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

GitHub Actions Generator

Generate production-ready GitHub Actions workflows and custom actions following current best practices, security standards, and naming conventions. All generated resources are automatically validated using the devops-skills:github-actions-validator skill.

Quick Reference

Capability When to Use Reference
Workflows CI/CD, automation, testing references/best-practices.md
Composite Actions Reusable step combinations references/custom-actions.md
Docker Actions Custom environments/tools references/custom-actions.md
JavaScript Actions API interactions, complex logic references/custom-actions.md
Reusable Workflows Shared patterns across repos references/advanced-triggers.md
Security Scanning Dependency review, SBOM references/best-practices.md
Modern Features Summaries, environments references/modern-features.md

Trigger Decision Tree

Route every request through this decision tree before reading references or generating files:

  1. If the user asks for .github/workflows/*.yml CI/CD automation, choose Workflow Generation.
  2. If the user asks for action.yml or a reusable step package, choose Custom Action Generation.
  3. If the user asks for workflow_call or shared pipelines across repositories, choose Reusable Workflow Generation.
  4. If the request includes security-only scanning (dependency review, SBOM, CodeQL), stay on Workflow Generation with the security pattern.
  5. If intent is ambiguous, ask one disambiguation question: "Do you want a workflow, a custom action, or a reusable workflow?"

Progressive Disclosure Route

Load only what is needed for the selected route, in this order:

Route Load First (required) Load Next (only if needed) Primary Template
Workflow Generation references/best-practices.md references/common-actions.md, references/expressions-and-contexts.md, references/modern-features.md assets/templates/workflow/basic_workflow.yml
Custom Action Generation references/custom-actions.md references/best-practices.md assets/templates/action/composite/action.yml, assets/templates/action/docker/, assets/templates/action/javascript/
Reusable Workflow Generation references/advanced-triggers.md references/best-practices.md, references/common-actions.md assets/templates/workflow/reusable_workflow.yml

Read the full file on GitHub · 351 lines

Files

What ships with it

31 files beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

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. 3d ago First seen · 351 lines · 27 tokens per session scan A 485a62c648f2

Subscribe to this mod's changes

github-actions-generator is a skill published in the GitHub repository akin-ozer/cc-devops-skills (303 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 27 tokens to every session and 2,841 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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