GitHub Actions Recovery Latency Audit

Measure GitHub Actions failure recovery latency and unresolved incident age by workflow group.

Use this skill to measure how quickly workflows recover after failing, and to detect groups that remain red for too long.

What this skill does

• Reads GitHub Actions run JSON exports
• Groups by repository + workflow + branch + event
• Builds failure incidents (first failing run until next success)
• Reports recovery latency for closed incidents
• Reports unresolved incident count + oldest unresolved age
• Scores severity (ok, warn, critical) for triage and CI gates

Inputs

Optional:

• RUN_GLOB (default: artifacts/github-actions/*.json)
• TOP_N (default: 20)
• OUTPUT_FORMAT (text or json, default: text)
• MIN_RUNS (default: 4)
• WARN_P95_HOURS (default: 6)
• CRITICAL_P95_HOURS (default: 18)
• WARN_OPEN_HOURS (default: 12)
• CRITICAL_OPEN_HOURS (default: 36)
• WARN_OPEN_INCIDENTS (default: 1)
• CRITICAL_OPEN_INCIDENTS (default: 2)
• NOW_ISO (optional fixed clock for deterministic tests)
• WORKFLOW_MATCH / WORKFLOW_EXCLUDE (regex)
• BRANCH_MATCH / BRANCH_EXCLUDE (regex)
• EVENT_MATCH / EVENT_EXCLUDE (regex)
• REPO_MATCH / REPO_EXCLUDE (regex)
• FAIL_ON_CRITICAL (0 or 1, default: 0)

Collect run JSON

bash

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

Run

Text report:

bash

RUN_GLOB='artifacts/github-actions/*.json' \
TOP_N=15 \
bash skills/github-actions-recovery-latency-audit/scripts/recovery-latency-audit.sh

JSON + fail gate:

bash

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

Run against bundled fixtures:

bash

RUN_GLOB='skills/github-actions-recovery-latency-audit/fixtures/*.json' \
NOW_ISO='2026-03-07T14:00:00Z' \
bash skills/github-actions-recovery-latency-audit/scripts/recovery-latency-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 recovery-risk groups
• JSON mode prints summary + ranked groups + critical groups