local-action-verification

local-action-verification is a skill for Claude Code from google-labs-code/jules-skills. It costs 25 tokens per session (878 once invoked), scanned B, original, Apache-2.0.

A setup guide for using act, a tool that runs GitHub Actions workflows locally. It adds installation and runner scripts plus instructions in AGENTS.md so an AI coding agent can use them.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to add local GitHub Actions verification to a repository, install act when needed, run workflows through the provided scripts, and document the process for Jules or another coding agent.
Why use it?
It allows CI checks to run before code is pushed to GitHub, making failures easier to catch during local development. Background execution and log polling help avoid agent timeouts.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter. Also seen: mentions AGENTS.md.

Good fit Use it to add local GitHub Actions verification to a repository, install act when needed, run workflows through the provided scripts, and document the process for Jules or another coding agent.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/google-labs-code/jules-skills/local-action-verification
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 google-labs-code/jules-skills --skill local-action-verification
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/google-labs-code/jules-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

agentmods badge for local-action-verification

README.md
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Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/google-labs-code/jules-skills/local-action-verification"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/google-labs-code/jules-skills/local-action-verification.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>
Per session 25 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 878 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan B 1 finding. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe. Third-party audits
  • Socket pass 18 Mar 2026
  • Snyk warn 13 Feb 2026
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 $0.00025 $0.00878
Opus 5 $0.00013 $0.00439
Sonnet 5 $0.00005 $0.00176
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00088

Measured 8d ago against content hash ba5b75600a8a, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade B, and why

local-action-verification scanned grade B with 1 finding 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 8d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 2 executable files (scripts/install-act.sh, scripts/run-act.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.

Asks for rootmediumPrivilege escalation

A mod that escalates privileges can change anything on the machine, not only the project.

1. **install-act.sh** — Installs `act` if missing (platform-aware, sudo fallback)
skills/local-action-verification/SKILL.md · 104 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 104 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Local Action Verification with act

You are setting up a repository so that Jules (or any agent) can run GitHub Actions workflows locally using act to verify code changes pass CI before pushing.

What You're Setting Up

Two scripts and an agents.md section that enable local CI verification:

  1. install-act.sh — Installs act if missing (platform-aware, sudo fallback)
  2. run-act.sh — Runs act in the background with log polling to avoid agent timeouts
  3. AGENTS.md section — Instructions Jules reads to know how to use these scripts

Setup Steps

Step 1: Copy scripts to the repository

Copy the scripts/ directory from this skill into the target repository at scripts/act/:

Target structure:
scripts/act/
├── install-act.sh
└── run-act.sh

Make sure the scripts are executable:

chmod +x scripts/act/install-act.sh scripts/act/run-act.sh

Step 2: Add instructions to AGENTS.md

Append the following section to the repository's AGENTS.md file (create it if it doesn't exist). This is how Jules discovers the local verification capability:

## Local CI Verification

Before pushing code or opening a PR, verify changes pass CI locally using `act`.

### Prerequisites
- Docker must be running
- If `act` is not installed, run: `bash scripts/act/install-act.sh`

### How to Verify

1. Read `.github/workflows/` to find the CI workflow and identify the job ID
2. Run the verification script:
   ```bash
   bash scripts/act/run-act.sh "push -j <JOB_ID>"

With matrix: bash scripts/act/run-act.sh "push -j <JOB_ID> --matrix <KEY>:<VALUE>" 3. If the run fails, read the log output, fix the code, and re-run 4. After verification, clean up:

rm -f act_output.log
git checkout <any unintended file changes>

Configuration

  • Timeout: ACT_TIMEOUT=900 bash scripts/act/run-act.sh "..." (default: 600s)
  • Poll interval: ACT_POLL=15 bash scripts/act/run-act.sh "..." (default: 10s)
  • Custom image: pass -P ubuntu-latest=node:20-bookworm in the arguments for faster pulls

Read the full file on GitHub · 104 lines

Files

What ships with it

4 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. 8d ago First seen · 104 lines · 25 tokens per session scan B ba5b75600a8a

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local-action-verification is a skill published in the GitHub repository google-labs-code/jules-skills (93 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 25 tokens to every session and 878 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it B with 1 finding (asks for root). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.

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