github-actions-version-upgrades

github-actions-version-upgrades is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from fabioc-aloha/Alex_Skill_Mall. It costs 18 tokens per session (544 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide to updating GitHub Actions and their Node.js runtimes when older versions are deprecated. GitHub Actions are automated workflows that run tasks such as tests, builds, and deployments.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to review workflow files, update core actions, and move workflows to supported Node.js-compatible versions.
Why use it?
It helps avoid deprecation warnings and workflow failures caused by outdated action versions or runtimes.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Good fit Use it to review workflow files, update core actions, and move workflows to supported Node.js-compatible versions.

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npx agentmods add skills/fabioc-aloha/alex_skill_mall/github-actions-version-upgrades
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add fabioc-aloha/Alex_Skill_Mall --skill github-actions-version-upgrades
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/fabioc-aloha/Alex_Skill_Mall

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When invoked 544 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.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

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Opus 5.5 $0.00007 $0.00218
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00004 $0.00109
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00054

Measured 1mo ago against content hash d349864943f9, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

github-actions-version-upgrades 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.

plugins/devops-process/github-actions-version-upgrades/skills/github-actions-version-upgrades/SKILL.md · 84 lines

What it actually says

GitHub Actions Version Upgrades

The Problem

Older action versions trigger deprecation warnings and will eventually break:

# Deprecated - old action majors and pre-24 Node runners
- uses: actions/checkout@vOLD
- uses: actions/setup-node@vOLD
  with:
    node-version: '<24'

The Solution

Proactively use current versions:

# Current ACT baseline
- uses: actions/checkout@v6
- uses: actions/setup-node@v6
  with:
    node-version: '24'

Version Reference

Action Current Node.js Runtime
actions/checkout v6 Node 24
actions/setup-node v6 Node 24
actions/upload-artifact latest Node 24-compatible major Node 24
actions/download-artifact latest Node 24-compatible major Node 24
actions/cache latest Node 24-compatible major Node 24
actions/github-script latest Node 24-compatible major Node 24

Migration Script

# Update core actions to the Node 24-compatible majors
sed -i 's/actions\/checkout@v[0-5]/actions\/checkout@v6/g' .github/workflows/*.yml
sed -i 's/actions\/setup-node@v[0-5]/actions\/setup-node@v6/g' .github/workflows/*.yml
sed -i 's/actions\/upload-artifact@v[0-3]/actions\/upload-artifact@v4/g' .github/workflows/*.yml
sed -i 's/actions\/download-artifact@v[0-3]/actions\/download-artifact@v4/g' .github/workflows/*.yml

Node.js Version Matrix

strategy:
  matrix:
    node-version: ['24']

# ACT baseline
node-version: '24'

Verification

# Check for old versions
grep -rn 'actions/.*@v[0-3]' .github/workflows/

# Should return nothing after upgrade

When to Apply

  • New repository setup
  • Quarterly maintenance
  • When seeing deprecation warnings
  • Before Node.js version EOL dates

Tags

github-actions ci-cd maintenance node

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 · 84 lines · 18 tokens per session scan A d349864943f9

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github-actions-version-upgrades is a skill published in the GitHub repository fabioc-aloha/Alex_Skill_Mall (5 stars, last pushed 4d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 18 tokens to every session and 544 once invoked, about $0.0001 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 2026-09-03.

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