Gh Actions Failure Triage

Inspect failing GitHub Actions checks, isolate the actionable failure, and turn it into a concrete fix path with verification steps.

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Use this skill when CI is failing in GitHub Actions and the user wants the failure understood or fixed.

Process:

  • identify the failing workflow, job, and step rather than saying only that CI is red
  • pull the smallest useful failure snippet and the command or assertion that failed
  • separate infrastructure noise from an actual code or test regression
  • map the failure to the local file or behavior most likely responsible
  • define the cheapest local verification before rerunning CI

Deliver:

  • failing workflow and job
  • short failure summary
  • likely root-cause area
  • proposed fix path
  • exact verification steps to run locally first

Avoid:

  • dumping huge logs without synthesis
  • treating every failure as a code defect when the runner or external service is the real problem
  • changing unrelated code just to make the pipeline go green

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