Scheduled Maintenance workflow (affaan-m/ECC)

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Source: affaan-m/ECC.github/workflows/maintenance.ymlLicense MITView source

What it does

This is the Scheduled Maintenance workflow from the affaan-m/ECC repository, a real project running GitHub Actions. It is shown here with attribution under its MIT license.

Below, Latchkey shows a faster, safer version produced by its optimization engine.

The workflow

workflow (.yml)

name: Scheduled Maintenance

on:
  schedule:
    - cron: '0 9 * * 1'  # Weekly Monday 9am UTC
  workflow_dispatch:

permissions:
  contents: read
  issues: write
  pull-requests: write

jobs:
  dependency-check:
    name: Check Dependencies
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    steps:
      - uses: actions/checkout@9c091bb21b7c1c1d1991bb908d89e4e9dddfe3e0 # v7.0.0
        with:
          persist-credentials: false
      - uses: actions/setup-node@48b55a011bda9f5d6aeb4c2d9c7362e8dae4041e # v6.4.0
        with:
          node-version: '20.x'
      - name: Check for outdated packages
        run: npm outdated || true

  security-audit:
    name: Security Audit
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    steps:
      - uses: actions/checkout@9c091bb21b7c1c1d1991bb908d89e4e9dddfe3e0 # v7.0.0
        with:
          persist-credentials: false
      - uses: actions/setup-node@48b55a011bda9f5d6aeb4c2d9c7362e8dae4041e # v6.4.0
        with:
          node-version: '20.x'
      - name: Run security audit
        run: |
          if [ -f package-lock.json ]; then
            npm ci --ignore-scripts
            npm audit signatures
            npm audit --audit-level=high
          else
            echo "No package-lock.json found; skipping npm audit"
          fi

  stale:
    name: Stale Issues/PRs
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    steps:
      - uses: actions/stale@eb5cf3af3ac0a1aa4c9c45633dd1ae542a27a899 # v10.3.0
        with:
          stale-issue-message: 'This issue is stale due to inactivity.'
          stale-pr-message: 'This PR is stale due to inactivity.'
          days-before-stale: 30
          days-before-close: 7

The same workflow, on Latchkey

Estimated ~20% faster on cache hits, plus fewer wasted runs and a safer supply chain. Added and changed lines are highlighted.

name: Scheduled Maintenance
 
on:
  schedule:
    - cron: '0 9 * * 1'  # Weekly Monday 9am UTC
  workflow_dispatch:
 
permissions:
  contents: read
  issues: write
  pull-requests: write
 
jobs:
  dependency-check:
    timeout-minutes: 30
    name: Check Dependencies
    runs-on: latchkey-small
    steps:
      - uses: actions/checkout@9c091bb21b7c1c1d1991bb908d89e4e9dddfe3e0 # v7.0.0
        with:
          persist-credentials: false
      - uses: actions/setup-node@48b55a011bda9f5d6aeb4c2d9c7362e8dae4041e # v6.4.0
        with:
          cache: 'npm'
          node-version: '20.x'
      - name: Check for outdated packages
        run: npm outdated || true
 
  security-audit:
    timeout-minutes: 30
    name: Security Audit
    runs-on: latchkey-small
    steps:
      - uses: actions/checkout@9c091bb21b7c1c1d1991bb908d89e4e9dddfe3e0 # v7.0.0
        with:
          persist-credentials: false
      - uses: actions/setup-node@48b55a011bda9f5d6aeb4c2d9c7362e8dae4041e # v6.4.0
        with:
          cache: 'npm'
          node-version: '20.x'
      - name: Run security audit
        run: |
          if [ -f package-lock.json ]; then
            npm ci --ignore-scripts
            npm audit signatures
            npm audit --audit-level=high
          else
            echo "No package-lock.json found; skipping npm audit"
          fi
 
  stale:
    timeout-minutes: 30
    name: Stale Issues/PRs
    runs-on: latchkey-small
    steps:
      - uses: actions/stale@eb5cf3af3ac0a1aa4c9c45633dd1ae542a27a899 # v10.3.0
        with:
          stale-issue-message: 'This issue is stale due to inactivity.'
          stale-pr-message: 'This PR is stale due to inactivity.'
          days-before-stale: 30
          days-before-close: 7

What changed

Run on Latchkey managed runners with one line (runs-on), which apply the fixes below automatically and self-heal transient failures. This example uses latchkey-small; pick the runner size that fits the job.
Cache dependency installs on the setup step so they are served from cache.
Add a job timeout so a hung step cannot burn hours of runner time.

What Latchkey heals here

This workflow has steps that commonly fail on transient issues (network, registries, flaky browsers). On Latchkey managed runners they are detected, retried, and self-healed instead of failing your build:

Dependency installs

This workflow runs 3 jobs per trigger. On Latchkey the same minutes cost up to 58% less than GitHub-hosted, with zero queue time.

Actions used in this workflow

actions/checkout actions/setup-node actions/stale