Publish goal-audit (bootstrap) workflow (cobusgreyling/loop-engineering)

The Publish goal-audit (bootstrap) workflow from cobusgreyling/loop-engineering, explained and optimized by Latchkey.

What it does

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The workflow

name: Publish goal-audit (bootstrap)

# One-time bootstrap: publishes @cobusgreyling/goal-audit from goal-engineering
# using this repo's NPM_TOKEN. After first publish, use goal-engineering's
# release-goal-audit.yml tag workflow (copy NPM_TOKEN to that repo).

on:
  workflow_dispatch:

permissions:
  contents: read
  id-token: write

jobs:
  publish:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    steps:
      - uses: actions/checkout@v7
        with:
          repository: cobusgreyling/goal-engineering
          ref: main

      - uses: actions/setup-node@v6
        with:
          node-version: '22'
          registry-url: 'https://registry.npmjs.org'
          cache: 'npm'
          cache-dependency-path: tools/goal-audit/package-lock.json

      - name: Install, build, test
        working-directory: tools/goal-audit
        run: |
          npm ci
          npm run build
          npm test

      - name: Publish to npm
        working-directory: tools/goal-audit
        run: npm publish --access public
        env:
          NODE_AUTH_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.NPM_TOKEN }}

The same workflow, on Latchkey

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

name: Publish goal-audit (bootstrap)
 
# One-time bootstrap: publishes @cobusgreyling/goal-audit from goal-engineering
# using this repo's NPM_TOKEN. After first publish, use goal-engineering's
# release-goal-audit.yml tag workflow (copy NPM_TOKEN to that repo).
 
on:
  workflow_dispatch:
 
permissions:
  contents: read
  id-token: write
 
jobs:
  publish:
    timeout-minutes: 30
    runs-on: latchkey-small
    steps:
      - uses: actions/checkout@v7
        with:
          repository: cobusgreyling/goal-engineering
          ref: main
 
      - uses: actions/setup-node@v6
        with:
          node-version: '22'
          registry-url: 'https://registry.npmjs.org'
          cache: 'npm'
          cache-dependency-path: tools/goal-audit/package-lock.json
 
      - name: Install, build, test
        working-directory: tools/goal-audit
        run: |
          npm ci
          npm run build
          npm test
 
      - name: Publish to npm
        working-directory: tools/goal-audit
        run: npm publish --access public
        env:
          NODE_AUTH_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.NPM_TOKEN }}

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.

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 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