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Get Started Understanding GitHub Actions - GitHub Docs

An overview of the core components of GitHub Actions, including workflows, events, jobs, steps, and runners, explaining how they interact to automate software development life cycles.

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Get Started Understanding GitHub Actions - GitHub Docs

An overview of the core components of GitHub Actions, including workflows, events, jobs, steps, and runners, explaining how they interact to automate software development life cycles.

When To Use

Use when you need to understand the relationship between events, workflows, jobs, and runners to design an automation pipeline.

Reference Files

File	Contains	Use For
`SKILL.md`	Entry point: scope, routing table, and workflow.	Start here.
`docs/actions-get-started-understand-github-understanding-docs-workflow-guide.md`	An overview of GitHub Actions components including workflows, events, jobs, steps, and runners.	Questions about an overview of GitHub Actions components including workflows, events, jobs, steps, and runners.

What This Skill Covers

- GitHub Actions / - Get started / - Understand GitHub Actions
Main sections: In this article, Overview, The components of GitHub Actions, Workflows, Events.

Workflow

Open the most relevant file under docs/ for the exact documented workflow and wording.
Open schemas/ files for exact structured contracts.
Open examples/ files for concrete requests, commands, snippets, and manifests.
Do not add behavior or configuration that is not present in the attached source files.

Canonical source: https://docs.github.com/en/actions/get-started/understand-github-actions