github-actions-management

A GitHub Actions management skill controls automated workflows that build, test, or deploy code on GitHub.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to list workflows and runs, investigate failures, rerun failed jobs, cancel runs, view artifacts, or start a manually triggered workflow.
Why use it?
It helps you inspect failed runs, read their logs, retry work, stop queued jobs, and check produced files or deployment status.

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/ofershap/mcp-server-github-actions/github-actions-management
Any agent
npx skills add ofershap/mcp-server-github-actions --skill github-actions-management
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/ofershap/mcp-server-github-actions

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 54 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 622 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 $0.00054 $0.00622
Opus 5 $0.00027 $0.00311
Sonnet 5 $0.00011 $0.00124
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00062

Measured yesterday against content hash d9d6cb877d6a, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

github-actions-management 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 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.

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-management/SKILL.md · 49 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 49 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

GitHub Actions Management via MCP

Use this skill when you need to check CI/CD status, read workflow logs, re-run failed jobs, or trigger deployments.

Available Tools

Tool What it does
list_workflows List all workflow files in a repository
list_runs List workflow runs (filter by workflow or status)
get_run Get details of a specific workflow run
get_run_logs Get the logs URL for a run (zip download)
rerun_workflow Re-run an entire workflow run
rerun_failed_jobs Re-run only the failed jobs from a run
cancel_run Cancel an in-progress or queued run
list_artifacts List artifacts produced by a workflow run
trigger_workflow Trigger a workflow via workflow_dispatch

Workflow

  1. Use list_runs with owner and repo to see recent runs and their status
  2. For failed runs: get_run for details, then decide whether to rerun_failed_jobs or investigate logs
  3. trigger_workflow requires the workflow file name and a branch — the workflow must have a workflow_dispatch trigger

Key Patterns

  • All tools require owner and repo parameters (e.g., owner: "ofershap", repo: "my-project")
  • list_runs supports status filter: "completed", "in_progress", "queued", "failure", "success"
  • rerun_failed_jobs is preferred over rerun_workflow; it is faster and cheaper
  • trigger_workflow needs workflow_id (filename like "ci.yml") and ref (branch name)

Error Scenarios

  • 401/403 from GitHub: GITHUB_TOKEN missing, expired, or lacks Actions scope on the repo
  • Run or workflow not found: double-check owner, repo, and numeric run id from list_runs
  • trigger_workflow rejected: workflow file lacks workflow_dispatch or branch ref is wrong
  • get_run_logs returns a zip URL only: download and unzip outside the tool to read full log text

Read the full file on GitHub · 49 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 · 49 lines · 54 tokens per session scan A d9d6cb877d6a

Subscribe to this mod's changes

github-actions-management is a skill published in the GitHub repository ofershap/mcp-server-github-actions (4 stars, last pushed 23d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 54 tokens to every session and 622 once invoked, about $0.0003 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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