investigating-runs

investigating-runs is a skill for Claude Code from technicalpickles/pickled-claude-plugins. It costs 0 tokens per session (1,818 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide for investigating failed GitHub Actions runs. GitHub Actions is GitHub’s automated system for building, testing, and deploying code.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when a build or test run is failing and you need to identify the failing job and step.
Why use it?
It condenses large failure logs into job statuses, failed-step details, and annotations so the likely cause is easier to find.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT} variable.

Runs only inside its plugin — its command needs a path that Claude Code sets for a plugin’s own hooks and for nothing else. Install the plugin, not this.

Part of the github-actions plugin — 1 skill shipped together

Good fit Use it when a build or test run is failing and you need to identify the failing job and step.

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Install

Getting it into your agent

This one installs as part of its plugin. Adding the marketplace and installing the plugin brings it with everything else the plugin ships.

Claude Code
/plugin marketplace add technicalpickles/pickled-claude-plugins
Claude Code
/plugin install github-actions

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install github-actions, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 1 skill.

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Per session 0 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,818 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
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 $0.00000 $0.01818
Opus 5 $0.00000 $0.00909
Sonnet 5 $0.00000 $0.00364
Haiku 4.5 $0.00000 $0.00182

Measured 8d ago against content hash 0a0da64b5358, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

investigating-runs 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 8d 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/github-actions/skills/investigating-runs/SKILL.md · 148 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 148 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Investigating GitHub Actions Runs

Overview

This skill helps you investigate failing GitHub Actions runs. It covers checking status, finding the root failure, and reading log output efficiently — not authoring workflow YAML, not driving a fix-then-rerun loop. Load it when working with an existing run (failed CI, red PR check, "why is this broken").

Why gha-snapshot?

One command, one ref, gets you everything: run metadata, per-job status, the failed step's log tail, and annotations — in a single readable block. gh run view --log-failed is a firehose; gha-snapshot distills it.

Tool hierarchy

Use in this order. Don't skip ahead unless the current tier can't answer the question.

1. gha-snapshot (primary)

${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/scripts/gha-snapshot <ref>

Accepts any of:

Input Example
Full URL gha-snapshot https://github.com/octocat/Hello-World/actions/runs/123
Run ID (uses cwd's repo) gha-snapshot 123
PR number gha-snapshot --pr 42
Default (latest failed run on current branch) gha-snapshot

Flags: --tail N controls how many lines of failed-step log to include per failed job (default 50).

Exit 0 = snapshot rendered (even if the run failed). Exit 1 = couldn't resolve a run.

2. Raw gh CLI (secondary)

When the snapshot doesn't expose what you need:

gh run list --branch <branch> --status failure --limit 5
gh run view <run-id> --json jobs,conclusion,headSha,event
gh run view <run-id> --log         # full log (huge)
gh run view <run-id> --log-failed  # failed steps only
gh run rerun <run-id> --failed     # transient infra only — see below
gh pr checks <pr-num>
gh workflow view <workflow>

See references/gh-cheatsheet.md for --json field names and jq patterns.

3. gh api (fallback)

For things the wrappers don't cover: GraphQL queries, raw check-run annotations, paged listings.

gh api repos/{owner}/{repo}/actions/runs/{run_id}/jobs
gh api repos/{owner}/{repo}/check-runs/{check_id}/annotations

Read the full file on GitHub · 148 lines

Files

What ships with it

3 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. 8d ago First seen · 148 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A 0a0da64b5358

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investigating-runs is a skill published in the GitHub repository technicalpickles/pickled-claude-plugins (10 stars, last pushed 3d ago), licensed MIT. It costs nothing until one of its globs matches a file; then it loads 1,818 tokens. 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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