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Actions GitHub-hosted runners - GitHub Docs

Explains the concept, capabilities, and limitations of GitHub-hosted runners within the GitHub Actions ecosystem.

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Actions GitHub-hosted runners - GitHub Docs

Explains the concept, capabilities, and limitations of GitHub-hosted runners within the GitHub Actions ecosystem.

When To Use

Use when deciding whether to use GitHub-managed infrastructure or self-hosted runners for CI/CD workloads and determining the available compute resources for jobs.

Reference Files

File	Contains	Use For
`SKILL.md`	Entry point: scope, routing table, and workflow.	Start here.
`docs/actions-runners-github-hosted-docs-workflow-guide.md`	An overview of GitHub-hosted runners including information on virtual machine environments, runner images, and preinstalled software.	Questions about an overview of GitHub-hosted runners including information on virtual machine environments, runner images, and preins...

What This Skill Covers

- GitHub Actions / - Concepts / - Runners / - GitHub-hosted runners
Main sections: In this article, Overview of GitHub-hosted runners, Runner images, Preinstalled software for GitHub-owned images, Custom images.

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/concepts/runners/github-hosted-runners