github-actions is agent-read markdown (skill) from nahid-sparktales/agent-dispatcher: Write and review GitHub Actions workflows that fail honestly and finish fast enough to be trusted — least-privilege permissions, untrusted pull request input, caching keyed on the right thing, matrices that mean something, and secrets that never reach a fork. Use when adding or changing a workflow file, when CI is slow, flaky, or green when it should be red, or when reviewing someone's workflow YAML. Not for provider-neutral pipeline and gate design (ci-cd), image authoring (docker), or writing .
Indexed from public GitHub and served as immutable, content-addressed versions. Install it pinned to an exact SHA-256 with the mdr CLI, and every file is verified against the hash recorded here before it reaches your agent. The deterministic audit below grades the latest version, and the same file always earns the same grade.
What the file says
# GitHub Actions
CI has one job: tell the truth about a commit, fast enough that people wait for the answer. A
workflow that is green because a step swallowed its exit code is worse than no CI, because now the
badge is lying with authority.
The workflow file is source code with production credentials in scope, and its most common
triggers are supplied by strangers.
## When this fires
A workflow file is being added or changed, CI is slow or intermittently failing, a failure did not
turn the run red, or you are reviewing workflow YAML. It does not fire for deciding which stages a
pipeline should have at all, or for the content of the tests themselves.
## Procedure
1. **Read the existing workflows first.** Know what already runs on this event, what is already
cached, and which checks are required on the protected branch. A second workflow on the same
trigger doubles the minutes and halves the clarity about which run is authoritative.
2. **State the trigger and the question precisely.** Pull request validation, main-branch build,
scheduled maintenance, and manual dispatch are different workflows with different privileges.
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Pin to a label to follow the author's releases, or to a sha256 to freeze the exact bytes forever. Either way the resolved hash is written to mdr.lock, and mdr install reproduces it on any machine.
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_55dpxvwcw52c5nfe
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=nahid-sparktales/agent-dispatcher/github-actions
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/dff3aab8551b884accb3098d3042110613c0f89aeb13138e5b4ba1b955661817
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