actions/runner

The Runner for GitHub Actions :rocket:

Stars: 6.3k
Forks: 1.4k
Open beginner issues: 3
Indexed issues: 428
Avg merge: 1d 16h
Merged PRs (30d): 24

Dominant language: C#
License: MIT
Last GitHub push: Sep 14, 2026
Latest indexed: Sep 20, 2026
Contributing guide: No contributing guide
Code of conduct: Code of conduct
Beginner labels: good first issue

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13 beginner-friendly issues open

Workflow schema omits documented code-quality and copilot-requests permissions Open

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 78/100

actions/runner#4723 · Opened Sep 15, 2026
Legacy ##[command] is parsed anywhere in a line (unlike ::command::), so printed third-party text can raise failure annotations and stop command processing Open

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 78/100

actions/runner#4692 · Opened Sep 9, 2026
Runner crashes at InitializeSecretMasker on machines with Thai (th-TH) culture — culture-sensitive LastIndexOf in PowerShellPreAmpersandEscape Open

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 88/100

actions/runner#4686 · Opened Sep 9, 2026
Broker retry logs an ERR stack trace and a phantom backoff on every job completion (listener's own cancellation treated as a request failure) Open

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 78/100

actions/runner#4644 · Opened Aug 24, 2026
installdependencies.sh: add fallback to libssl-dev / libicu-dev for Debian 14+ Open

bug

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 72/100

actions/runner#4600 · 1 comment · Opened Aug 3, 2026
ConnectivityAndDNSChecks attempts TCP port 80 probe to http://ssh.github.com/_dns, violating documented only-HTTPS port 443 egress requirements Open

bug

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 82/100

actions/runner#4595 · 1 comment · 1 reaction · Opened Jul 31, 2026
Action archive downloads buffer the entire tarball in memory before writing to disk Open

bug

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 82/100

actions/runner#4587 · 2 comments · Opened Jul 29, 2026
GitHub Actions runner modifies secrets containing $ characters when used in double-quoted shell commands Open

bug

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 68/100

actions/runner#4500 · 1 comment · Opened Jun 12, 2026
The requirement for the location of dotnet dependencies in `config.sh` seems overly strict Open

bug

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 68/100

actions/runner#4460 · 1 reaction · Opened May 27, 2026
The Docker image `ghcr.io/actions/actions-runner` is missing documentation Open

bug

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 65/100

actions/runner#4456 · 2 comments · Opened May 26, 2026
External repository for TingluoHuang referenced in actions/runner source in unit tests for ActionManagerL0.cs Open

bug

Difficulty 1/5 Under an hour Newbie friendliness 72/100

actions/runner#4408 · Opened May 7, 2026
Bash script handler doesn't quote the script path, breaking hooks/scripts in directories with spaces Open

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 78/100

actions/runner#4404 · 15 reactions · Opened May 5, 2026
`./config.sh --check ...` should return a non-zero exit code if any check fails. Open

bug

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 74/100

actions/runner#4395 · 1 comment · Opened Apr 30, 2026

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