github-action

github-action is a skill for Claude Code from crowdin/skills. It costs 137 tokens per session (3,288 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A GitHub Actions workflow step for syncing a repository with Crowdin, a service that manages software translations. It can upload source files, download translations and open a pull request with the changes.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it in Linux-based GitHub Actions runners to upload source or translation files, retrieve completed translations, download bundles and create localization commits or pull requests.
Why use it?
It automates the repeated exchange of translation files between GitHub and Crowdin. This keeps translation updates moving through the repository without running each transfer manually.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the crowdin plugin — 15 skills, 1 MCP server shipped together

Good fit Use it in Linux-based GitHub Actions runners to upload source or translation files, retrieve completed translations, download bundles and create localization commits or pull requests.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/crowdin/skills/github-action
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.

Any agent
npx skills add crowdin/skills --skill github-action
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/crowdin/skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install crowdin, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 15 skills, 1 MCP server.

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README.md
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Per session 137 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,288 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector warn 7 Sept 2026
SkillSpector: 2 findings, up to high

These are SkillSpector’s own severities. On a checked sample its high-severity flags on skills were ~96% false positives — a documented command, a public API, a “never do X” rule — so we show them as a caution to read, not a verdict. Why →

  • high Privilege Escalation · line 65
    Code accesses credential files (SSH keys, AWS credentials, etc.). This could indicate credential theft attempts.
    Fix: Remove references to credential paths. Use environment variables or secrets managers. For docs, use placeholder paths (e.g., /path/to/config). Never load .env or token files in production code paths.
  • high Privilege Escalation · line 65
    Code accesses credential files (SSH keys, AWS credentials, etc.). This could indicate credential theft attempts.
    Fix: Remove references to credential paths. Use environment variables or secrets managers. For docs, use placeholder paths (e.g., /path/to/config). Never load .env or token files in production code paths.
How audits are shown
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 5.1 $0.00137 $0.03288
Opus 5.5 $0.00055 $0.01315
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00027 $0.00658
Haiku 4.5 $0.00014 $0.00329

Measured 1mo ago against content hash dbf2d71d052a, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

github-action 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 1mo ago.

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.

skills/github-action/SKILL.md · 190 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 190 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Crowdin GitHub Action

crowdin/github-action runs Crowdin CLI inside a Docker container as a single workflow step: it uploads source files to Crowdin, downloads finished translations, commits them to a localization branch, and opens a pull request.

Because it is a Docker action it only runs on Linux runners — ubuntu-latest, or a self-hosted Linux runner with Docker available. It will not run on macos-* or windows-*.

Reference: README · examples · inputs and outputs · workflow recipes

The step is a pipeline, not a command

One step performs up to five operations, always in this fixed order, and each one is gated by its own input:

Order Input Runs
1 upload_sources: true (default) crowdin upload sources
2 upload_translations: true crowdin upload translations
3 download_sources: true crowdin download sources, then the git half
4 download_translations: true crowdin download, then the git half
5 download_bundle: <id> crowdin bundle download <id>, then the git half

The git half is a single unit of work: git add ., commit, force-push the localization branch, open the PR. Its parts are individually switchable (push_translations, push_sources, create_pull_request), and only rows 3–5 can reach it.

That order explains nearly every surprise the action produces:

  • upload_sources defaults to true. A step you intended as download-only also pushes your sources to Crowdin unless you write upload_sources: false. Set every flag you care about explicitly rather than relying on defaults.
  • The git half runs only after a download. create_pull_request: true on an upload-only step is inert — there is nothing to commit.
  • Two downloads in one step run the git half twice — two commits to the same localization branch, under one PR.
  • The git half commits with git add . — everything dirty in the workspace goes in, including files earlier steps generated. Keep the Crowdin step ahead of any build steps, or give it its own job.
  • Every run with changes force-pushes, so an open translation PR is rewritten rather than appended to — which is why its checks start over each time.

Read the full file on GitHub · 190 lines

Files

What ships with it

3 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. 1mo ago First seen · 190 lines · 137 tokens per session scan A dbf2d71d052a

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github-action is a skill published in the GitHub repository crowdin/skills (9 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 137 tokens to every session and 3,288 once invoked, about $0.0005 per session on Opus 5.5. 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 2026-08-31.