GitHub Actions PR Gate Health Audit

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name: github-actions-pr-gate-health-audit description: Audit pull-request and merge-queue GitHub Actions reliability by scoring failure rate, queue latency, and stale-success risk for merge gates. version: 1.0.0 metadata: {"openclaw":{"requires":{"bins":["bash","python3"]}}}

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GitHub Actions PR Gate Health Audit

Use this skill to detect unreliable pull-request merge gates before they block developers or hide degraded CI health.

What this skill does

Reads GitHub Actions run JSON exports

Filters to PR/merge-gate events by default (pull_request, pull_request_target, merge_group)

Groups by repository + workflow + event

Scores risk using:

- failure rate - consecutive current failures - average queue wait before run start - days since last successful run

Flags warning/critical groups via configurable thresholds

Emits text or JSON output for CI gates and operational dashboards

Inputs

Optional:

RUN_GLOB (default: artifacts/github-actions/*.json)

TOP_N (default: 20)

OUTPUT_FORMAT (text or json, default: text)

MIN_RUNS (default: 2)

EVENT_MATCH (default: ^(pull_request|pull_request_target|merge_group)$)

WORKFLOW_MATCH (regex, optional)

WORKFLOW_EXCLUDE (regex, optional)

REPO_MATCH (regex, optional)

REPO_EXCLUDE (regex, optional)

FAIL_WARN_PERCENT (default: 15)

FAIL_CRITICAL_PERCENT (default: 30)

QUEUE_WARN_SECONDS (default: 120)

QUEUE_CRITICAL_SECONDS (default: 300)

SUCCESS_STALE_DAYS (default: 3)

WARN_SCORE (default: 25)

CRITICAL_SCORE (default: 45)

FAIL_ON_CRITICAL (0 or 1, default: 0)

Collect run JSON

gh run view  --json databaseId,workflowName,event,conclusion,headBranch,headSha,createdAt,runStartedAt,updatedAt,url,repository \
  > artifacts/github-actions/run-.json

Run

Text report:

RUN_GLOB='artifacts/github-actions/*.json' \
EVENT_MATCH='^(pull_request|merge_group)$' \
MIN_RUNS=3 \
bash skills/github-actions-pr-gate-health-audit/scripts/pr-gate-health-audit.sh

JSON output with fail gate:

RUN_GLOB='artifacts/github-actions/*.json' \
OUTPUT_FORMAT=json \
FAIL_ON_CRITICAL=1 \
bash skills/github-actions-pr-gate-health-audit/scripts/pr-gate-health-audit.sh

Run with bundled fixtures:

RUN_GLOB='skills/github-actions-pr-gate-health-audit/fixtures/*.json' \
bash skills/github-actions-pr-gate-health-audit/scripts/pr-gate-health-audit.sh

Output contract

Exit 0 in report mode (default)

Exit 1 when FAIL_ON_CRITICAL=1 and one or more groups are critical

Text mode prints summary + ranked PR gate risk groups

JSON mode prints summary + scored groups + critical group details