github-actions

github-actions is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from G1Joshi/Agent-Skills. It costs 38 tokens per session (1,371 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

GitHub's built-in automation system for running tasks when code changes or other repository events occur. Workflows use reusable steps called actions and run on hosted or self-managed machines.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to run tests on pushes and pull requests, build software, deploy releases, schedule jobs, and create reusable automation workflows.
Why use it?
It automates checks and delivery directly alongside the code, reducing manual build, test, and deployment work.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Use it to run tests on pushes and pull requests, build software, deploy releases, schedule jobs, and create reusable automation workflows.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/g1joshi/agent-skills/github-actions
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add G1Joshi/Agent-Skills --skill github-actions
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/G1Joshi/Agent-Skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 38 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,371 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

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 $0.00038 $0.01371
Opus 5.5 $0.00015 $0.00548
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00008 $0.00274
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00137

Measured 23d ago against content hash 6c0a9baa8bc9, 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 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 23d 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/devops/github-actions/SKILL.md · 192 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 192 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

GitHub Actions

GitHub Actions is the CI/CD platform native to GitHub, characterized by Reusable Workflows, matrix builds, and OIDC integration for secure, passwordless cloud deployments.

When to Use

  • Cloud CI/CD Integrated with GitHub: Building, testing, and releasing software directly inside GitHub repositories.
  • Automated Pull Request Checks: Enforcing linting, type-checking, unit tests, and security scans on PR branches.
  • OIDC Cloud Deployments: Deploying to AWS, Azure, and GCP securely without storing permanent cloud access keys.
  • Matrix Multi-Platform Builds: Testing packages across OS matrices (Ubuntu, macOS, Windows) and language versions.

Quick Start

# .github/workflows/ci.yml
name: CI
on: [push, pull_request]

jobs:
  build:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    steps:
      - uses: actions/checkout@v4
      - uses: actions/setup-node@v4
        with:
          node-version: "20"
      - run: npm ci
      - run: npm test

Core Concepts

Production CI/CD Workflow with Dependency Caching

Comprehensive workflow for testing and publishing:

# .github/workflows/ci.yml
name: CI Pipeline

on:
  push:
    branches: [main]
  pull_request:
    branches: [main]

concurrency:
  group: ${{ github.workflow }}-${{ github.ref }}
  cancel-in-progress: true

jobs:
  validate:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    steps:
      - name: Checkout Code
        uses: actions/checkout@v4

      - name: Setup Node.js Environment
        uses: actions/setup-node@v4
        with:
          node-version: 22
          cache: "npm"

      - name: Install Dependencies
        run: npm ci

      - name: Static Analysis & Tests
        run: |
          npm run lint
          npm run typecheck
          npm test -- --coverage

      - name: Upload Test Coverage Artifacts
        uses: actions/upload-artifact@v4
        with:
          name: coverage-report
          path: coverage/

OIDC Authentication with Cloud Providers (AWS / GCP)

Deploying securely without long-lived secret keys:

Read the full file on GitHub · 192 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. 23d ago Changed · +5 lines 6c0a9baa8bc9
  2. 28d ago Changed · +122 lines · +19 tokens per session a1796298d9c9
  3. 1mo ago First seen · 65 lines · 19 tokens per session scan A df9ced53106a

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github-actions is a skill published in the GitHub repository G1Joshi/Agent-Skills (15 stars, last pushed 24d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 38 tokens to every session and 1,371 once invoked, about $0.0002 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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