Creating actions

You can create your own actions, use and customize actions shared by the GitHub community, or write and share the actions you build.

Setting exit codes for actions

You can use exit codes to set the status of an action. GitHub displays statuses to indicate passing or failing actions.

You can leverage automation and open source best practices to release and maintain actions.

You can publish actions in GitHub Marketplace and share actions you've created with the GitHub community.

Learn how to develop an action to set up a CLI on GitHub Actions runners.