AI Dependency Change Review workflow (grafana/alloy)

The AI Dependency Change Review workflow from grafana/alloy, explained and optimized by Latchkey.

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Source: grafana/alloy.github/workflows/ai-dependency-review.ymlLicense Apache-2.0View source

What it does

This is the AI Dependency Change Review workflow from the grafana/alloy repository, a real project running GitHub Actions. It is shown here with attribution under its Apache-2.0 license.

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

The workflow

workflow (.yml)

name: AI Dependency Change Review

on:
  pull_request:
    types: [opened, reopened, synchronize, ready_for_review]
    paths:
      - '**/go.mod'

permissions:
  contents: read
  pull-requests: write
  id-token: write

concurrency:
  group: ai-deps-review-${{ github.event.pull_request.head.sha }}
  cancel-in-progress: false

jobs:
  analyze-dependencies:
    if: github.event.pull_request.draft == false
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    steps:
      - name: Checkout code
        uses: actions/checkout@df4cb1c069e1874edd31b4311f1884172cec0e10 # v6.0.3
        with:
          persist-credentials: false

      - name: Set up Go
        uses: actions/setup-go@4a3601121dd01d1626a1e23e37211e3254c1c06c # v6.4.0
        with:
          go-version-file: go.mod

      - id: get-secrets
        uses: grafana/shared-workflows/actions/get-vault-secrets@a37de51f3d713a30a9e4b21bcdfbd38170020593 # get-vault-secrets/v1.3.0
        with:
          repo_secrets: |
            OPENAI_API_KEY=openai:api-key
          export_env: false

      - name: Analyze go.mod changes with OpenAI and comment
        env:
          OPENAI_API_KEY: ${{ fromJSON(steps.get-secrets.outputs.secrets).OPENAI_API_KEY }}
          GITHUB_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
        run: |
          go run -C tools ./cmd aireview \
            --prompt-file="../.github/ai-review-prompts/dependency-review.md" \
            --marker="<!-- ai-deps-review -->" \
            --slug="${{ github.repository }}" \
            --pr-number="${{ github.event.pull_request.number }}"

The same workflow, on Latchkey

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

name: AI Dependency Change Review
 
on:
  pull_request:
    types: [opened, reopened, synchronize, ready_for_review]
    paths:
      - '**/go.mod'
 
permissions:
  contents: read
  pull-requests: write
  id-token: write
 
concurrency:
  group: ai-deps-review-${{ github.event.pull_request.head.sha }}
  cancel-in-progress: false
 
jobs:
  analyze-dependencies:
    timeout-minutes: 30
    if: github.event.pull_request.draft == false
    runs-on: latchkey-small
    steps:
      - name: Checkout code
        uses: actions/checkout@df4cb1c069e1874edd31b4311f1884172cec0e10 # v6.0.3
        with:
          persist-credentials: false
 
      - name: Set up Go
        uses: actions/setup-go@4a3601121dd01d1626a1e23e37211e3254c1c06c # v6.4.0
        with:
          go-version-file: go.mod
 
      - id: get-secrets
        uses: grafana/shared-workflows/actions/get-vault-secrets@a37de51f3d713a30a9e4b21bcdfbd38170020593 # get-vault-secrets/v1.3.0
        with:
          repo_secrets: |
            OPENAI_API_KEY=openai:api-key
          export_env: false
 
      - name: Analyze go.mod changes with OpenAI and comment
        env:
          OPENAI_API_KEY: ${{ fromJSON(steps.get-secrets.outputs.secrets).OPENAI_API_KEY }}
          GITHUB_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
        run: |
          go run -C tools ./cmd aireview \
            --prompt-file="../.github/ai-review-prompts/dependency-review.md" \
            --marker="<!-- ai-deps-review -->" \
            --slug="${{ github.repository }}" \
            --pr-number="${{ github.event.pull_request.number }}"

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 actions/setup-go