github-actions-debugger

github-actions-debugger is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from opendatahub-io/ai-helpers. It costs 56 tokens per session (1,247 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A workflow for investigating failed GitHub Actions runs, GitHub’s automated build and test service. It checks run status, failed jobs, logs, and likely causes.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to list recent runs, inspect failed jobs and logs, troubleshoot workflow failures, and identify next debugging steps.
Why use it?
It brings the relevant CI, or automated build-and-test, evidence together so developers do not have to search through workflow output manually.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Part of the odh-git plugin — 6 skills shipped together

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/opendatahub-io/ai-helpers/github-actions-debugger
Any agent
npx skills add opendatahub-io/ai-helpers --skill github-actions-debugger
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/opendatahub-io/ai-helpers

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install odh-git, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 6 skills.

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Per session 56 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,247 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 $0.00056 $0.01247
Opus 5 $0.00028 $0.00624
Sonnet 5 $0.00011 $0.00249
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00125

Measured 5d ago against content hash 4cb73ba812ad, 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-debugger 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 5d 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.

plugins/odh-git/skills/github-actions-debugger/SKILL.md · 122 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 122 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

GitHub Actions Debugger

This skill enables Claude to investigate GitHub Actions failures by:

  1. Listing recent workflow runs and their status
  2. Identifying failed jobs within a run
  3. Retrieving failed job logs
  4. Analyzing error messages and suggesting next debugging steps

Prerequisites

  • gh CLI installed and authenticated (gh auth status to verify)
  • Git repository with a GitHub remote configured (for automatic repo detection)

If gh is not installed, ask the user to follow installation instructions at https://cli.github.com/

If gh is not authenticated, ask the user to run gh auth login.

Instructions

When the user asks to check CI status, debug workflow failures, or view job logs, use the gh CLI commands below. All commands auto-detect the GitHub repository from the git remote in the current working directory. To target a different repository, add -R <owner>/<repo> to any command.

Handling GitHub Actions URLs

When the user provides a full GitHub Actions URL, parse it to extract the repository and run or job ID, then use -R to target that repository. Always use the repository from the URL, ignoring the local git remote.

Before constructing any command from a URL, validate the extracted values:

  • Owner names must only contain letters, digits, and hyphens.

  • Repository names must only contain letters, digits, hyphens, underscores, and dots.

  • Run IDs and job IDs must be purely numeric.

  • Workflow file names must only contain letters, digits, hyphens, underscores, and dots. If any extracted value fails its rule, reject it and ask the user to provide a corrected URL or ID.

  • Run URL format: https://github.com/<owner>/<repo>/actions/runs/<run-id>

    • Extract: -R <owner>/<repo> and <run-id>
    • Example: https://github.com/my-org/my-project/actions/runs/123456789 becomes gh run view 123456789 -R my-org/my-project
  • Workflow URL format: https://github.com/<owner>/<repo>/actions/workflows/<workflow-file>

    • Extract: -R <owner>/<repo> and --workflow <workflow-file>
    • Example: https://github.com/my-org/my-project/actions/workflows/ci.yaml becomes gh run list --workflow ci.yaml -R my-org/my-project

Read the full file on GitHub · 122 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. 5d ago First seen · 122 lines · 56 tokens per session scan A 4cb73ba812ad

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github-actions-debugger is a skill published in the GitHub repository opendatahub-io/ai-helpers (37 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 56 tokens to every session and 1,247 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 2026-08-30.

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