github-actions

github-actions is a skill for Claude Code from itsnex1s/awesome-claude-skills. It costs 22 tokens per session (2,495 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A GitHub service for running automated tasks when code changes, releases, schedules, or manual requests occur.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to run tests and builds for pushes or pull requests, and to automate deployments or scheduled jobs.
Why use it?
It reduces the need to test, build, or deploy software by hand after every change.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter.

Needs its repository: it runs a file that does not travel with it, so clone the repository first. The line is uses: ./.github/workflows/reusable-build.yml.

Good fit Use it to run tests and builds for pushes or pull requests, and to automate deployments or scheduled jobs.

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Install

Getting it into your agent

It runs from inside its repository, so the clone comes first — what it calls does not travel with the file alone.

Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/itsnex1s/awesome-claude-skills
agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/itsnex1s/awesome-claude-skills/github-actions

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 22 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,495 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 $0.00022 $0.02495
Opus 5 $0.00011 $0.01247
Sonnet 5 $0.00004 $0.00499
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00249

Measured 9d ago against content hash 551db5f2bd0f, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, 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 9d 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-actions/SKILL.md · 493 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 493 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

github-actions

GitHub Actions for CI/CD - automated testing, building, and deployment.

Workflow Basics

Location

.github/workflows/
├── ci.yml
├── deploy.yml
└── release.yml

Basic Structure

name: CI

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

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 run build
      - run: npm test

Triggers

Push/PR

on:
  push:
    branches: [main, develop]
    paths:
      - 'src/**'
      - 'package.json'
    paths-ignore:
      - '**.md'
      - 'docs/**'
  pull_request:
    branches: [main]
    types: [opened, synchronize, reopened]

Schedule (Cron)

on:
  schedule:
    - cron: '0 0 * * *'  # Daily at midnight UTC

Manual

on:
  workflow_dispatch:
    inputs:
      environment:
        description: 'Deploy environment'
        required: true
        default: 'staging'
        type: choice
        options:
          - staging
          - production

Release

on:
  release:
    types: [published]

Common Workflows

CI (Test + Build)

name: CI

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

jobs:
  test:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    steps:
      - uses: actions/checkout@v4

      - uses: actions/setup-node@v4
        with:
          node-version: '20'
          cache: 'npm'

      - run: npm ci
      - run: npm run lint
      - run: npm run test:coverage

      - uses: actions/upload-artifact@v4
        with:
          name: coverage
          path: coverage/

  build:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    needs: test
    steps:
      - uses: actions/checkout@v4

      - uses: actions/setup-node@v4
        with:
          node-version: '20'
          cache: 'npm'

      - run: npm ci
      - run: npm run build

      - uses: actions/upload-artifact@v4
        with:
          name: build
          path: dist/

Read the full file on GitHub · 493 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. 9d ago First seen · 493 lines · 22 tokens per session scan A 551db5f2bd0f

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github-actions is a skill published in the GitHub repository itsnex1s/awesome-claude-skills (5 stars, last pushed 6mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 22 tokens to every session and 2,495 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 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.

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