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Check docs workflow (ddev/ddev)

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Source: ddev/ddev.github/workflows/docs-check.ymlLicense Apache-2.0View source

What it does

This is the Check docs workflow from the ddev/ddev repository, a real project running GitHub Actions. It is shown here with attribution under its Apache-2.0 license.

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The workflow

workflow (.yml)
name: Check docs
defaults:
  run:
    shell: bash

on:
  push:
    branches: [ main ]
  pull_request:
    paths:
      - "docs/**"
      - ".spellcheckwordlist.txt"
      - ".spellcheck.yml"
      - ".markdownlint.jsonc"
      - "mkdocs.yml"
      - ".readthedocs.yaml"
      - ".github/workflows/**"
      - ".linkspector.yml"

  workflow_dispatch:
    inputs:
      debug_enabled:
        description: 'Run the build with tmate set "debug_enabled"'
        type: boolean
        required: false
        default: false

concurrency:
  group: ${{ github.workflow }}-${{ github.ref }}
  cancel-in-progress: true

permissions:
  actions: write

jobs:
  build:
    name: Docs check (spellcheck, links, markdownlint, textlint)
    # linkspector seems to fail with "No usable sandbox"
    runs-on: ubuntu-24.04
    steps:
      - uses: actions/checkout@v7
        with:
          fetch-depth: 0

      - name: Spellcheck
        uses: rojopolis/spellcheck-github-actions@v0
      - name: Install textlint
        run: |
          npm init -y
          npm install textlint textlint-filter-rule-comments textlint-rule-no-todo textlint-rule-stop-words textlint-rule-terminology
      - name: Run textlint
        uses: tsuyoshicho/action-textlint@v3
        with:
          github_token: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
          reporter: github-check
          textlint_flags: "{README.md,version-history.md,docs/**}"
      - name: Setup tmate session
        if: ${{ github.event_name == 'workflow_dispatch' && inputs.debug_enabled }}
        uses: mxschmitt/action-tmate@v3
        with:
          limit-access-to-actor: true
      - name: Run linkspector to check external links
        uses: umbrelladocs/action-linkspector@v1
        with:
          github_token: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
          reporter: github-check
          fail_on_error: true
          # Check links only in the added lines for PRs, but check everything otherwise
          filter_mode: ${{ github.event_name == 'pull_request' && 'added' || 'nofilter' }}
          config_file: '.linkspector.yml'
      - name: Run markdownlint
        run: |
          npm install -g markdownlint-cli
          make markdownlint
      - name: Test zensical
        run: |
          pip install -r docs/requirements.txt
          zensical build --clean --strict

The same workflow, on Latchkey

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name: Check docs
defaults:
  run:
    shell: bash
 
on:
  push:
    branches: [ main ]
  pull_request:
    paths:
      - "docs/**"
      - ".spellcheckwordlist.txt"
      - ".spellcheck.yml"
      - ".markdownlint.jsonc"
      - "mkdocs.yml"
      - ".readthedocs.yaml"
      - ".github/workflows/**"
      - ".linkspector.yml"
 
  workflow_dispatch:
    inputs:
      debug_enabled:
        description: 'Run the build with tmate set "debug_enabled"'
        type: boolean
        required: false
        default: false
 
concurrency:
  group: ${{ github.workflow }}-${{ github.ref }}
  cancel-in-progress: true
 
permissions:
  actions: write
 
jobs:
  build:
    timeout-minutes: 30
    name: Docs check (spellcheck, links, markdownlint, textlint)
    # linkspector seems to fail with "No usable sandbox"
    runs-on: latchkey-small
    steps:
      - uses: actions/checkout@v7
        with:
          fetch-depth: 0
 
      - name: Spellcheck
        uses: rojopolis/spellcheck-github-actions@v0
      - name: Install textlint
        run: |
          npm init -y
          npm install textlint textlint-filter-rule-comments textlint-rule-no-todo textlint-rule-stop-words textlint-rule-terminology
      - name: Run textlint
        uses: tsuyoshicho/action-textlint@v3
        with:
          github_token: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
          reporter: github-check
          textlint_flags: "{README.md,version-history.md,docs/**}"
      - name: Setup tmate session
        if: ${{ github.event_name == 'workflow_dispatch' && inputs.debug_enabled }}
        uses: mxschmitt/action-tmate@v3
        with:
          limit-access-to-actor: true
      - name: Run linkspector to check external links
        uses: umbrelladocs/action-linkspector@v1
        with:
          github_token: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
          reporter: github-check
          fail_on_error: true
          # Check links only in the added lines for PRs, but check everything otherwise
          filter_mode: ${{ github.event_name == 'pull_request' && 'added' || 'nofilter' }}
          config_file: '.linkspector.yml'
      - name: Run markdownlint
        run: |
          npm install -g markdownlint-cli
          make markdownlint
      - name: Test zensical
        run: |
          pip install -r docs/requirements.txt
          zensical build --clean --strict
 

What changed

4 third-party actions are referenced by a movable tag. Pin them to the commit SHA (Latchkey resolves and applies this automatically) so a repointed tag cannot change what runs.

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:

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