Cron actions workflow (marcolivierarsenault/moonraker-home-assistant)

The Cron actions workflow from marcolivierarsenault/moonraker-home-assistant, explained and optimized by Latchkey.

What it does

This is the Cron actions workflow from the marcolivierarsenault/moonraker-home-assistant 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

name: Cron actions

on:
  schedule:
    - cron: "0 0 * * *"

permissions:
  contents: read

jobs:
  validate:
    runs-on: "ubuntu-latest"
    name: Validate
    steps:
      - uses: "actions/checkout@v6"

      - name: HACS validation
        uses: "hacs/action@main"
        with:
          category: "integration"
          ignore: brands

      - name: Hassfest validation
        uses: "home-assistant/actions/hassfest@master"

The same workflow, on Latchkey

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

name: Cron actions
 
on:
  schedule:
    - cron: "0 0 * * *"
 
permissions:
  contents: read
 
jobs:
  validate:
    timeout-minutes: 30
    runs-on: "ubuntu-latest"
    name: Validate
    steps:
      - uses: "actions/checkout@v6"
 
      - name: HACS validation
        uses: "hacs/action@main"
        with:
          category: "integration"
          ignore: brands
 
      - name: Hassfest validation
        uses: "home-assistant/actions/hassfest@master"
 

What changed

• 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.