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Explains the concept, benefits, and operational differences between GitHub-hosted runners and self-hosted runners for executing GitHub Actions workflows.

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Actions Self-hosted runners - GitHub Docs

Explains the concept, benefits, and operational differences between GitHub-hosted runners and self-hosted runners for executing GitHub Actions workflows.

When To Use

Use when you need to decide whether to host your own execution environments or use GitHub-hosted runners to meet specific hardware, networking, or security requirements.

Reference Files

File	Contains	Use For
`SKILL.md`	Entry point: scope, routing table, and workflow.	Start here.
`docs/actions-runners-self-hosted-github-docs-workflow-guide.md`	An overview of GitHub Actions self-hosted runner concepts, including customization and environment management.	Questions about an overview of GitHub Actions self-hosted runner concepts, including customization and environment management.

What This Skill Covers

- GitHub Actions / - Concepts / - Runners / - Self-hosted runners
Main sections: Next steps.

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/self-hosted-runners