maintain-ci

maintain-ci is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from NVIDIA/NeMo-Relay. It costs 36 tokens per session (960 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A maintenance guide for GitHub Actions, the service that runs automated checks and releases for a code repository.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when editing or reviewing workflow files for security, reliability, or reproducibility. It covers per-job access, pinned action versions, cache invalidation, release tags, and deployment permissions.
Why use it?
It helps make automated workflows safer, repeatable, and easier to review by controlling permissions, dependency caching, release rules, and reusable workflows.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one. Also seen: installed under .agents/ (shared by several agents).

About the project

NVIDIA/NeMo-Relay is a runtime and library that gives coding agents and applications shared control over agent execution scopes, policies, plugins, lifecycle events, and observability data. It is for developers who need to inspect or instrument runs from agents such as Codex or Claude Code, or integrate frameworks and export traces and trajectories. The catalogue entries provide Relay plugins, hooks, instructions, skills, and an MCP server for those workflows.

NVIDIA/NeMo-Relay · 162 stars · on GitHub · docs.nvidia.com

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/nvidia/nemo-relay/maintain-ci
Any agent
npx skills add NVIDIA/NeMo-Relay --skill maintain-ci
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/NVIDIA/NeMo-Relay

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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README.md
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Per session 36 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 960 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 5.1 $0.00036 $0.00960
Opus 5 $0.00018 $0.00480
Sonnet 5 $0.00007 $0.00192
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00096

Measured 6d ago against content hash 30743dadaeb3, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-06, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

maintain-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 6d 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.

.agents/skills/maintain-ci/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.

Maintain GitHub Actions CI

Companion Guidance

Use karpathy-guidelines alongside this skill for implementation or review work. Keep changes scoped, surface assumptions, and define focused validation before editing.

Use this skill when a change touches .github/workflows/*.yml or .github/workflows/*.yaml, or when reviewing CI behavior for security, reliability, or reproducibility.

Standards

  • Put permissions: on each job that needs token access.
  • Avoid workflow-level permissions unless the repository intentionally centralizes them and the inheritance tradeoff is documented.
  • Keep third-party actions pinned to full commit SHAs and preserve the readable version comment after the SHA.
  • Prefer action-native or ecosystem-native caching over generic actions/cache.
  • Use lockfiles or dependency manifests to drive cache invalidation.
  • Keep deploy and publish permissions isolated to the jobs that need them.
  • Read both caller and callee when a workflow uses workflow_call.
  • Put release-tag validation in the earliest practical caller job when the pipeline has tag-based publish behavior.
  • Keep release-tag policy aligned with RELEASING.md: raw SemVer tags only, no leading v.
  • Keep Codecov component paths aligned with new crates, packages, and generated outputs. Dynamic plugin SDK/protocol paths belong in the plugin component.
  • Keep pure-Python plugin SDK packaging as a single wheel artifact instead of duplicating it across every platform matrix entry.

Permission Model

  • contents: read is the default minimum for checkout-based build, test, docs, and packaging jobs.
  • pull-requests: read is required for PR metadata lookup jobs.
  • pages: write and id-token: write should be limited to Pages deployment jobs and any caller that invokes them through a reusable workflow.
  • For reusable workflows, the caller must grant every permission the called jobs require. The callee cannot elevate beyond what the caller provides.

Read the full file on GitHub · 104 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. 6d ago First seen · 104 lines · 36 tokens per session scan A 30743dadaeb3

Subscribe to this mod's changes

maintain-ci is a skill published in the GitHub repository NVIDIA/NeMo-Relay (162 stars, last pushed today), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 36 tokens to every session and 960 once invoked, about $0.0002 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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