github-ci

github-ci is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from greedychipmunk/agent-skills. It costs 56 tokens per session (670 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide for creating and maintaining GitHub Actions workflows, which automatically run tasks such as tests when changes happen in a repository.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to write or update files in .github/workflows, configure triggers and runners, run tests, set up matrix builds, add caching, and manage permissions and secrets.
Why use it?
It helps avoid guessing how workflow files, build machines, test runs, caching, and stored secrets should be configured. It also helps reduce common security mistakes in automated builds.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Use it to write or update files in .github/workflows, configure triggers and runners, run tests, set up matrix builds, add caching, and manage permissions and secrets.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/greedychipmunk/agent-skills/github-ci
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 greedychipmunk/agent-skills --skill github-ci
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/greedychipmunk/agent-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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README.md
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Per session 56 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 670 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 medium

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 →

  • medium MCP Rug Pull · line 84
    Docker image references without a specific tag (:latest is implicit) or digest (@sha256:...) can be silently replaced by a malicious image.
    Fix: Pin the image: image:tag or image@sha256:abc123
  • low Tool Misuse · line 84
    Tool parameters are crafted to achieve unintended or unsafe behavior. Parameter abuse can bypass intended safety checks (e.g. shell=True, --force, dangerous glob patterns).
    Fix: Validate all tool parameters against an allowlist. Reject dangerous parameter values (shell=True, --force, -rf /) and use safe defaults.
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 $0.00056 $0.00670
Opus 5.5 $0.00022 $0.00268
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00011 $0.00134
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00067

Measured 1mo ago against content hash bddcb294c7cd, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

github-ci 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.

github-ci/SKILL.md · 86 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 86 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

GitHub CI

Write and maintain GitHub Actions CI workflows with confidence. This skill covers workflow design, runner configuration, testing patterns, and security best practices for continuous integration pipelines on GitHub.


Intent Router

Load reference files for depth on specific topics:

Topic File Load when...
Workflow Basics resources/workflow-basics.md Learning workflow YAML structure, triggers, jobs, and built-in actions
Runners & Caching resources/runners-and-caching.md Configuring runners, setting up caching, or optimizing build performance
Testing Patterns resources/testing-patterns.md Implementing test runs, reporting results, or integrating coverage tools
Security & Secrets resources/security-and-secrets.md Managing secrets, permissions, and third-party action safety

Quick Start

Basic GitHub Actions Workflow

  1. Create workflow file — Save as .github/workflows/ci.yml in repository root
  2. Define triggers — Use on: to specify when workflow runs (push, pull_request, schedule)
  3. Configure job — Define jobs with name, runner type, and steps
  4. Add checkout — Use actions/checkout@v4 to access repository code
  5. Run commands — Add steps with run: or use community actions

Minimal Workflow

name: CI

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

jobs:
  test:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    steps:
      - uses: actions/checkout@v4
      - run: echo "Running CI pipeline"

Workflow Anatomy

workflow
├── name: Display name
├── on: Trigger events (push, pull_request, schedule, workflow_dispatch)
├── env: Workflow-level environment variables
└── jobs:
    └── <job-name>:
        ├── runs-on: Runner type (ubuntu-latest, windows-latest, macos-latest)
        ├── env: Job-level environment variables
        ├── strategy: Matrix, fail-fast, max-parallel settings
        └── steps:
            ├── uses: Pre-built action
            └── run: Shell command or script

Read the full file on GitHub · 86 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. 1mo ago First seen · 86 lines · 56 tokens per session scan A bddcb294c7cd

Subscribe to this mod's changes

github-ci is a skill published in the GitHub repository greedychipmunk/agent-skills (24 stars, last pushed 5d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 56 tokens to every session and 670 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 2026-08-30.

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