action-check

A guide for checking the latest result of a GitHub Actions workflow, GitHub's system for automatically running tasks such as tests and package publishing. It can monitor a running workflow and describes automatic failure fixes.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to check whether a named workflow passed, monitor it while it runs, inspect its logs, and handle failures.
Why use it?
It removes the need to inspect workflow runs manually or use the GitHub command-line tool. It also helps identify what went wrong by reading job logs.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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.

agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/kolodkin/devpowers/action-check
Any agent
npx skills add kolodkin/devpowers --skill action-check
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/kolodkin/devpowers

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 76 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,578 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 1 finding. Scan, not verified.
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 $0.00076 $0.01578
Opus 5 $0.00038 $0.00789
Sonnet 5 $0.00015 $0.00316
Haiku 4.5 $0.00008 $0.00158

Measured yesterday against content hash 163b075ebb29, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

action-check scanned grade A 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 yesterday.

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.

Makes network callslowCapability

Not a fault in itself. Listed so you know the mod talks to something, and to what.

s=$(curl -fsSL \
skills/action-check/SKILL.md · 103 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 103 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Action Check Skill

Check the latest run of a GitHub Actions workflow, monitor it if still in progress, report the result, and fix failures automatically — driven through the GitHub MCP server's actions toolset (mcp__plugin_devpowers_github__actions_*, mcp__plugin_devpowers_github__get_job_logs), exactly the way /check-pr drives PR/CI status through mcp__plugin_devpowers_github__pull_request_read. No gh CLI.

Invocation Format

/action-check <workflow description>

Examples:

/action-check hello
/action-check pypi publish
/action-check generate migration

Step 0 — Ensure the GitHub MCP actions toolset is available

This skill drives everything through the actions toolset of the github MCP server bundled with this plugin — its .mcp.json loads as mcp__plugin_devpowers_github__*, and the X-MCP-Toolsets: all header turns the actions tools on.

  • If mcp__plugin_devpowers_github__get_job_logs (and the mcp__plugin_devpowers_github__actions_* tools) are visible in your tool list, proceed.
  • If they're missing, the plugin's bundled github MCP didn't connect — almost always because GH_TOKEN isn't set (it authenticates with Bearer ${GH_TOKEN}). Tell the user to export GH_TOKEN=<pat> (a long-lived PAT) and restart Claude Code (or run /reload-plugins), then re-invoke /action-check. Stop until the server loads.

Reading runs only needs Actions: read (classic repo scope / fine-grained Actions: read).

Tool shape: the hosted server groups Actions operations into method-based tools — mcp__plugin_devpowers_github__actions_list (methods list_workflows, list_workflow_runs, list_workflow_jobs), mcp__plugin_devpowers_github__actions_get (get_workflow_run), and the standalone mcp__plugin_devpowers_github__get_job_logs. Server versions may rename these or shift methods; map the intent below to whatever mcp__plugin_devpowers_github__* actions tools your session actually exposes, and read each tool's registered schema for exact filter/pagination parameters.

Read the full file on GitHub · 103 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. yesterday First seen · 103 lines · 76 tokens per session scan A 163b075ebb29

Subscribe to this mod's changes

action-check is a skill published in the GitHub repository kolodkin/devpowers (2 stars, last pushed 23d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 76 tokens to every session and 1,578 once invoked, about $0.0004 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 1 finding (makes network calls). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-31.

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