Can this skill handle version-only changes in release automation?

Yes, it includes patterns for content comparison that can ignore volatile fields like version numbers, preventing redundant CI triggers during automated release cycles.

What is work avoidance in the context of GitHub Actions?

Work avoidance is the practice of detecting whether a task actually needs to be performed before executing it, typically by checking for changes in source files, existing cache, or using path filtering.

Is this skill useful for monorepo management?

Yes, it is specifically designed to handle monorepo challenges by implementing path-based filtering to ensure only the affected projects or services are built, tested, or deployed.

How does this skill help reduce GitHub Actions costs?

By skipping unnecessary jobs or steps, it reduces the total number of runner minutes consumed, which directly lowers usage costs for private repositories and enterprise organizations.

GitHub Actions Work Avoidance

Name: GitHub Actions Work Avoidance
Author: adaptive-enforcement-lab

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Deployment & DevOps

Optimizes CI/CD pipelines by identifying and skipping redundant operations to reduce execution time and runner costs.

About

This skill enables Claude to implement advanced 'skip before execute' patterns within GitHub Actions, ensuring that expensive CI/CD workflows only run when meaningful changes occur. By automating the detection of unchanged content, volatile fields, and cached builds, it helps developers significantly reduce runner minutes and accelerate feedback loops, particularly in complex environments like monorepos, automated release systems, and large-scale file distribution workflows.

Key Features

Optimization patterns for scheduled jobs and monorepo builds
Cache-based skipping to avoid redundant build and test steps
Content comparison techniques to skip version-only updates
Volatile field exclusion for intelligent change detection
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Path-based filtering to ignore documentation or irrelevant file changes

Use Cases

Preventing full monorepo rebuilds when only specific sub-packages change
Skipping version-bump commits in automated release pipelines
Optimizing scheduled jobs to exit early if no source code updates exist

What are Skills?·How to Install

Install with 🐟 Skill.Fish

npx skillfish add adaptive-enforcement-lab/claude-skills work-avoidance-in-github-actions

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