Release Skills workflow (himself65/finance-skills)

The Release Skills workflow from himself65/finance-skills, explained and optimized by Latchkey.

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Source: himself65/finance-skills.github/workflows/release-skills.ymlLicense MITView source

What it does

This is the Release Skills workflow from the himself65/finance-skills 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: Release Skills

on:
  push:
    tags: ['v*']

permissions:
  contents: write

jobs:
  release:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    steps:
      - uses: actions/checkout@v4

      - name: Extract version from tag
        id: version
        run: echo "version=${GITHUB_REF_NAME#v}" >> "$GITHUB_OUTPUT"

      - name: Zip each skill
        run: |
          mkdir -p dist
          for plugin_dir in plugins/*/; do
            plugin_name=$(basename "$plugin_dir")
            for skill_dir in "${plugin_dir}skills/"/*/; do
              [ -d "$skill_dir" ] || continue
              skill_name=$(basename "$skill_dir")
              (cd "${plugin_dir}skills" && zip -r "../../../dist/${skill_name}.zip" "$skill_name/")
              echo "Zipped: $skill_name (from $plugin_name)"
            done
          done

      - name: Create release
        run: |
          gh release create "${{ github.ref_name }}" dist/*.zip \
            --title "v${{ steps.version.outputs.version }}" \
            --generate-notes \
            --latest
        env:
          GH_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}

The same workflow, on Latchkey

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name: Release Skills
 
on:
  push:
    tags: ['v*']
 
permissions:
  contents: write
 
concurrency:
  group: ${{ github.workflow }}-${{ github.ref }}
  cancel-in-progress: true
 
jobs:
  release:
    timeout-minutes: 30
    runs-on: latchkey-small
    steps:
      - uses: actions/checkout@v4
 
      - name: Extract version from tag
        id: version
        run: echo "version=${GITHUB_REF_NAME#v}" >> "$GITHUB_OUTPUT"
 
      - name: Zip each skill
        run: |
          mkdir -p dist
          for plugin_dir in plugins/*/; do
            plugin_name=$(basename "$plugin_dir")
            for skill_dir in "${plugin_dir}skills/"/*/; do
              [ -d "$skill_dir" ] || continue
              skill_name=$(basename "$skill_dir")
              (cd "${plugin_dir}skills" && zip -r "../../../dist/${skill_name}.zip" "$skill_name/")
              echo "Zipped: $skill_name (from $plugin_name)"
            done
          done
 
      - name: Create release
        run: |
          gh release create "${{ github.ref_name }}" dist/*.zip \
            --title "v${{ steps.version.outputs.version }}" \
            --generate-notes \
            --latest
        env:
          GH_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_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.
Cancel superseded runs when a branch or PR gets a newer push.
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