AI Moderator workflow (axios/axios)

The AI Moderator workflow from axios/axios, explained and optimized by Latchkey.

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Source: axios/axios.github/workflows/moderator.ymlLicense MITView source

What it does

This is the AI Moderator workflow from the axios/axios 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: AI Moderator
on:
  issues:
    types: [opened]
  issue_comment:
    types: [created]
  pull_request_review_comment:
    types: [created]

jobs:
  spam-detection:
    name: AI Moderator
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    permissions:
      issues: write
      pull-requests: write
      models: read
      contents: read
    steps:
      - name: Checkout repo
        uses: actions/checkout@9c091bb21b7c1c1d1991bb908d89e4e9dddfe3e0 # v7.0.0
        with:
          persist-credentials: false

      - name: Run AI Moderator
        uses: github/ai-moderator@81159c370785e295c97461ade67d7c33576e9319 # v1.1.4
        with:
          token: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
          spam-label: 'spam'
          ai-label: 'ai-generated'
          minimize-detected-comments: true
          enable-spam-detection: true
          enable-link-spam-detection: true
          enable-ai-detection: true

The same workflow, on Latchkey

Removes redundant runs and caps runaway jobs. Added and changed lines are highlighted.

name: AI Moderator
on:
  issues:
    types: [opened]
  issue_comment:
    types: [created]
  pull_request_review_comment:
    types: [created]
 
jobs:
  spam-detection:
    timeout-minutes: 30
    name: AI Moderator
    runs-on: latchkey-small
    permissions:
      issues: write
      pull-requests: write
      models: read
      contents: read
    steps:
      - name: Checkout repo
        uses: actions/checkout@9c091bb21b7c1c1d1991bb908d89e4e9dddfe3e0 # v7.0.0
        with:
          persist-credentials: false
 
      - name: Run AI Moderator
        uses: github/ai-moderator@81159c370785e295c97461ade67d7c33576e9319 # v1.1.4
        with:
          token: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
          spam-label: 'spam'
          ai-label: 'ai-generated'
          minimize-detected-comments: true
          enable-spam-detection: true
          enable-link-spam-detection: true
          enable-ai-detection: true

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.
Add a job timeout so a hung step cannot burn hours of runner time.

This workflow runs 1 job 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