bumping-github-actions

bumping-github-actions is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from tony/skills. It costs 36 tokens per session (1,264 once invoked), scanned A, a copy of github-actions-bumping-github-actions, MIT.

A workflow for bringing outdated GitHub Actions up to date across repositories. GitHub Actions are reusable steps in automated build and deployment workflows.

In plain words
What is it for?
Inventorying action pins, verifying target tags, researching release notes, committing upgrades, and closing Dependabot pull requests.
Why use it?
It helps prevent invalid version pins and keeps upgrades tied to verified releases and repository ownership.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Part of the github-actions plugin — 3 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/tony/skills/bumping-github-actions
Any agent
npx skills add tony/skills --skill bumping-github-actions
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/tony/skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install github-actions, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 3 skills.

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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 1,264 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin 89% copy Near-identical to another mod 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 $0.00036 $0.01264
Opus 5 $0.00018 $0.00632
Sonnet 5 $0.00007 $0.00253
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00126

Measured yesterday against content hash 273825a9c874, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

bumping-github-actions 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.

Origin

This is a copy

89% identical to github-actions-bumping-github-actions — 17 lines differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.

plugins/github-actions/skills/bumping-github-actions/SKILL.md · 149 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 149 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Bumping GitHub Actions

Audit uses: pins, research each upgrade against real release notes, land one commit per action, and close dependabot's pull requests by citing the commit that superseded them.

Two reference files carry the parts that must not drift between this skill and the plugin's commands:

  • ../../references/action-pinning.md — inventory, tag verification, annotated-tag dereferencing, pin granularity, and the per-repo gates to check before claiming an upgrade is safe.
  • ../../references/dependabot-closeout.md — the one-way citation rule, the closing protocol, CI attribution, and scope discipline.

Core principle

Verify the target tag exists before writing it. Everything else in this procedure is recoverable; a pin naming a tag that does not resolve breaks every workflow that references it, in every repo, at once.

Scope

Own repositories only. Ownership by account name is not enough — a fork you own is still someone else's project, and its workflows belong upstream. Check whether the repository is a fork and skip it unless the user says otherwise.

Phase 1 — Inventory

Discover repositories with workflows, resolve each one's default branch, and read every uses: line from that branch. Follow the inventory section of the pinning reference, including its word-splitting warning: a naive loop silently drops repos with more than one workflow file and reports the fleet as clean.

Record, per pin: repository, default branch, file, action, and current version. That table is the unit of work for the rest of the procedure.

Phase 2 — Resolve and verify

For each distinct action, resolve the latest version, choose a target that preserves the repository's existing pin shape, and confirm the target tag exists. Dereference annotated tags before comparing two of them. All four steps are in the pinning reference.

Nothing proceeds past this phase on an unverified tag.

Phase 3 — Research each upgrade

For every distinct upgrade chain, gather the exact latest version, every major release between the current pin and the target with a real release URL, the breaking changes, and what the consuming workflows must actually change. Use web search and the vendor's own release notes; fan out one researcher per chain when there are many.

Read the full file on GitHub · 149 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 · 149 lines · 36 tokens per session scan A 273825a9c874

Subscribe to this mod's changes

bumping-github-actions is a skill published in the GitHub repository tony/skills (2 stars, last pushed 6d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 36 tokens to every session and 1,264 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 89% identical to github-actions-bumping-github-actions, differing in 17 lines, and is treated as a copy.

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