github-runner

github-runner is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from magnus919/agent-skills. It costs 76 tokens per session (1,651 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

Guidance for running your own machines or containers as GitHub Actions runners—the systems that execute automated build and test jobs.

In plain words
What is it for?
It helps deploy runners with systemd, Docker, or Kubernetes, create custom runner images, autoscale queued jobs, configure firewall access, and harden runners.
Why use it?
It helps resolve runner registration, scaling, networking, and security problems that arise when your team maintains the execution environment.

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/magnus919/agent-skills/github-runner
Any agent
npx skills add magnus919/agent-skills --skill github-runner
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/magnus919/agent-skills

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 1,651 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. 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 $0.01651
Opus 5 $0.00038 $0.00826
Sonnet 5 $0.00015 $0.00330
Haiku 4.5 $0.00008 $0.00165

Measured today against content hash a396248eb0fc, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

github-runner 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 today.

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-runner/SKILL.md · 129 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 129 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Self-Hosted GitHub Actions Runner

Deploy and manage self-hosted GitHub Actions runners — the machines that execute CI/CD workflow jobs. Self-hosted runners give you control over hardware, OS, and toolchain, at the cost of requiring you to maintain the environment.

When to Use

Trigger What to do
"Set up CI for my project", "deploy a self-hosted runner for [repo/org]" Read deployment — choose systemd, Docker, or ARC
"Runner won't register / keeps failing", "runner gets 404", "registration token expired" Read management — ACCESS_TOKEN vs RUNNER_TOKEN, groups
"How to scale runners automatically", "auto-scale runners", "too many queued jobs" Read scaling — ARC, Scale Set Client, ephemeral
"Secure my self-hosted runners", "hardening runners", "runner security", "public repo risk" Read security — public repo risks, ephemeral, JIT, groups
"Make a custom runner image", "build a runner Dockerfile", "custom runner with Python" Read custom-images — Dockerfile, ARC container modes
"What domains does a runner need to reach?", "runner firewall rules", "runner network setup" Read network — firewall rules, TLS, proxy
"Labels, groups, or both for routing?", "how to target specific runners" Read management — labels and groups sections
"Monitor / troubleshoot runner issues", "runner offline", "runner not picking up jobs" Read management — monitoring and troubleshooting sections

Quick Reference

Deployment Spectrum

Approach Complexity Autoscaling Best For
systemd service Low Manual Single machine, simple CI
Docker container Medium Manual replicas Homelab, small team
ARC (Kubernetes) High Built-in Teams with K8s expertise
Scale Set Client High Custom Non-K8s platform teams

Read the full file on GitHub · 129 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. today Changed · +2 lines · +16 tokens per session a396248eb0fc
  2. 3d ago First seen · 127 lines · 60 tokens per session scan A d8ee26526ee8

Subscribe to this mod's changes

github-runner is a skill published in the GitHub repository magnus919/agent-skills (66 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 76 tokens to every session and 1,651 once invoked, about $0.0004 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 2026-08-30.

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