Github Actions Update Actions

Update All GitHub Actions

Audit every uses: pin across the repositories in scope, then bring the out-of-date ones current — one commit per repository and action, each justified against the vendor's own release notes.

Use the github-actions-bumping-github-actions skill for the phase structure. It reads the same two references this command does, so the audit and the single-action path cannot drift: references/action-pinning.md and references/dependabot-closeout.md.

For a single named action, use the github-actions-update-action skill instead.

User arguments: $ARGUMENTS

Context

Repository — run this command and read the output:

git remote get-url origin 2>/dev/null || echo "(not a git repository)"

Default branch — run this command and read the output:

git symbolic-ref --short refs/remotes/origin/HEAD 2>/dev/null || echo "(unknown)"

Pins on this branch — run this command and read the output:

git grep -hoE 'uses:[[:space:]]*[^[:space:]]+' "$(git symbolic-ref --short refs/remotes/origin/HEAD 2>/dev/null || echo HEAD)" -- '.github/workflows/*' '.github/actions/*' 2>/dev/null | sed -E 's/uses:[[:space:]]*//' | sort | uniq -c | sort -rn || echo "(no workflows found)"

Open dependabot pull requests here — run this command and read the output:

gh pr list --author app/dependabot --state open --limit 50 --json number,title --jq '.[] | "#\(.number) \(.title)"' 2>/dev/null || echo "(none, or gh unavailable)"

Procedure

Follow the skill's phases. This command supplies the scope and the fan-out.

1. Scope

Default scope is the current repository. --root audits every git repository beneath a directory; --owner keeps only those whose remote belongs to the given accounts or organisations; --repo names individual ones. Exclude forks — check the fork flag, not the owner name — and say which were excluded.

2. Inventory and verify

Run the skill's inventory and verification phases across the whole scope before touching anything. Every target tag is confirmed to exist first; a dangling ref written fleet-wide is the expensive failure this sequencing prevents.

3. Research, one chain per distinct upgrade

Group the work by upgrade chain rather than by repository — twenty repositories moving actions/checkout from the same major share one piece of research. Dispatch a subagent per chain where the host supports it. Validate every release URL before it reaches a commit message.

4. Orchestration plan

Present the plan the skill defines and wait for approval. With --audit-only, stop here and report; nothing is written.

5. Commit and push

One commit per repository and action. Work through repositories one at a time, pushing as each completes, so an interrupted run resumes cleanly. Repositories parked on a feature branch get a throwaway worktree based on the remote default branch.

6. Verify and close out

Watch CI per repository. Attribute failures before blaming the bumps. Close every dependabot pull request whose action was bumped, citing the commit that superseded it; close as obsolete any whose action no longer appears in a workflow.

Rules

• No version string is written before its tag is confirmed to exist.
• One commit per repository and action — never bundle actions.
• Commit messages never cite dependabot; the pull request cites the commit.
• A fleet-wide claim is verified per repository before it enters that repository's commit body.
• Report unrelated breakage; fix it only when a bump caused it.
• Forks and upstream projects are out of scope.

Output

Open with a one-line hero (✓ N commits across M repos or ⚠ Audit only: N pins out of date), then exactly these sections:

1. ## Audit — every action in scope with its current pins and the latest version, and what was excluded as fork, upstream, or already current.
2. ## Upgrades — one entry per distinct chain: what changed, release links, and which repositories the breaking changes reach.
3. ## Commits — per repository, the commits made and whether they were pushed.
4. ## Close-out — CI results, dependabot pull requests closed with the commit each cited, and any failure shown to predate the bumps.
5. ## Drift — repositories with no dependabot configuration, and actions pinned to a moving branch.

End with an ask-user-choice panel offering next steps (for example: add dependabot configuration to the repos lacking it, pin the moving branches, stop here) — skip the panel only in plan mode.

Portability notes

• ask-user-choice — present the listed options and wait for the user to pick one. Hosts with a structured multiple-choice tool (Claude Code's AskUserQuestion) should use it; otherwise print a numbered list and wait for a numbered reply. Never proceed on an assumed answer.
• $ARGUMENTS — the text the user passed when invoking this skill. If your host does not substitute it, read it as the user's request in the current turn, and ask when there is none.
• Bundled files — every relative path in this skill points at a file shipped inside this skill directory. Read them from here, not from the host's plugin tree.