github-actions-docs

github-actions-docs is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from pledgeandgrow/pledge-skills. It costs 28 tokens per session (2,185 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A reference for GitHub Actions, GitHub’s system for automatically running build, test, and deployment tasks from repository events or schedules.

In plain words
What is it for?
It helps create workflows with triggers, jobs, runners, secrets, caching, reusable workflows, permissions, and conditional expressions.
Why use it?
It helps developers understand the YAML configuration and security settings needed to automate work reliably.

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

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

agentmods badge for github-actions-docs

README.md
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/pledgeandgrow/pledge-skills/github-actions.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/skills/pledgeandgrow/pledge-skills/github-actions)
Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/pledgeandgrow/pledge-skills/github-actions"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/pledgeandgrow/pledge-skills/github-actions.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>
Per session 28 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,185 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 $0.00028 $0.02185
Opus 5 $0.00014 $0.01092
Sonnet 5 $0.00006 $0.00437
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00218

Measured 4d ago against content hash 3964f4db3254, 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-docs 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 4d 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.

skills/github-actions/SKILL.md · 164 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 164 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

GitHub Actions

Version: Latest (2026) | Source: docs.github.com/en/actions

Overview

GitHub Actions is a CI/CD platform that automates build, test, and deployment pipelines directly from your repository. Workflows are defined as YAML files in .github/workflows/ and triggered by repository events, schedules, or manual dispatch.

Quick Reference

Topic File Key Content
Getting Started getting-started.md Understanding Actions, quickstart, workflow templates, triggers, runners selection, workflow tasks
Workflow Syntax workflow-syntax.md Full YAML syntax: name, on, jobs, steps, strategy, matrix, container, services, concurrency, permissions, env, defaults, reusable jobs, filter patterns
Events, Contexts & Expressions events-contexts.md All 30+ trigger events, 12 contexts (github, env, vars, job, jobs, steps, runner, secrets, strategy, matrix, needs, inputs), expression operators, functions, status checks
Runners runners.md GitHub-hosted runners (Ubuntu/Windows/macOS), larger runners, self-hosted runners, Actions Runner Controller (ARC)
Security & Reuse security-reuse.md Secrets management, OIDC, artifact attestations, GITHUB_TOKEN permissions, custom actions (JS/composite/Docker), metadata syntax, reusable workflows
Managing Workflows managing.md Manual runs, re-running, canceling, disabling, status badges, auto-labeling issues, scripts, deployment to Azure/AWS/GKE, limits, metrics
Caching, Artifacts, Variables & Commands caching-commands.md Dependency caching (actions/cache, keys, restore-keys), artifacts (upload/download), default environment variables (GITHUB_, RUNNER_), config variable precedence, workflow commands (debug, notice, warning, error, group, mask, GITHUB_ENV, GITHUB_OUTPUT, GITHUB_PATH, GITHUB_STEP_SUMMARY)
Advanced Topics advanced.md Deployment environments (protection rules, required reviewers, wait timer, branch restrictions, env secrets/vars), debug logging (runner diagnostic, step debug), billing & usage (minute multipliers, included minutes, storage), GITHUB_TOKEN authentication (API calls, CLI, permissions), REST API (workflows, runs, artifacts, caches, secrets, runners), migration from Jenkins/CircleCI/GitLab/Azure Pipelines (concept mapping tables), service containers (PostgreSQL, Redis)

Read the full file on GitHub · 164 lines

Files

What ships with it

8 files beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

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. 4d ago First seen · 164 lines · 28 tokens per session scan A 3964f4db3254

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github-actions-docs is a skill published in the GitHub repository pledgeandgrow/pledge-skills (10 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 28 tokens to every session and 2,185 once invoked, about $0.0001 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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