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github-actions-failure-spike-audit

Detect sudden GitHub Actions failure-rate spikes by workflow group using recent-vs-baseline run windows.

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Install via CLI (Recommended)

clawhub install openclaw/skills/skills/daniellummis/github-actions-failure-spike-audit

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GitHub Actions Failure Spike Audit

Use this skill to catch workflows that recently degraded (new flaky tests, broken deploy gates, bad dependency updates, or infra outages) before they become long-running incidents.

What this skill does

Reads GitHub Actions run JSON exports
Groups by repository + workflow + branch + event
Splits each group into recent runs and baseline history
Compares recent failure rate to baseline failure rate
Scores severity (ok, warn, critical) using spike + recent failure rate gates
Emits text or JSON output for CI automation

Inputs

Optional:

RUN_GLOB (default: artifacts/github-actions/*.json)
TOP_N (default: 20)
OUTPUT_FORMAT (text or json, default: text)
RECENT_RUNS (default: 4)
MIN_RECENT_RUNS (default: 3)
MIN_BASELINE_RUNS (default: 4)
WARN_SPIKE_PCT (default: 15)
CRITICAL_SPIKE_PCT (default: 30)
WARN_RECENT_FAILURE_RATE (default: 25)
CRITICAL_RECENT_FAILURE_RATE (default: 45)
WORKFLOW_MATCH (regex, optional)
WORKFLOW_EXCLUDE (regex, optional)
BRANCH_MATCH (regex, optional)
BRANCH_EXCLUDE (regex, optional)
EVENT_MATCH (regex, optional)
EVENT_EXCLUDE (regex, optional)
REPO_MATCH (regex, optional)
REPO_EXCLUDE (regex, optional)
FAIL_ON_CRITICAL (0 or 1, default: 0)

Collect run JSON

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

Run

Text report:

RUN_GLOB='artifacts/github-actions/*.json' \
RECENT_RUNS=8 \
WARN_SPIKE_PCT=12 \
bash skills/github-actions-failure-spike-audit/scripts/failure-spike-audit.sh

JSON output + fail gate:

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

Run against bundled fixtures:

RUN_GLOB='skills/github-actions-failure-spike-audit/fixtures/*.json' \
bash skills/github-actions-failure-spike-audit/scripts/failure-spike-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 failure-rate spike groups
JSON mode prints summary + ranked groups + critical groups

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Metadata

Author@daniellummis

Stars3376

Updated2026-03-24

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Add to Configuration

Paste this into your clawhub.json to enable this plugin.

{
  "plugins": {
    "official-daniellummis-github-actions-failure-spike-audit": {
      "enabled": true,
      "auto_update": true
    }
  }
}

Safety NoteClawKit audits metadata but not runtime behavior. Use with caution.

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