Title formatter workflow (sindresorhus/eslint-plugin-unicorn)

The Title formatter workflow from sindresorhus/eslint-plugin-unicorn, explained and optimized by Latchkey.

What it does

This is the Title formatter workflow from the sindresorhus/eslint-plugin-unicorn 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: Title formatter

on:
  pull_request_target:
    types: [opened, edited]
  issues:
    types: [opened, edited]

jobs:
  Rule:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    permissions:
      pull-requests: write
      issues: write
    steps:
      - uses: actions/checkout@v6
        with:
          sparse-checkout: docs/rules
      - name: Auto-format rule names in titles
        uses: fregante/keyword-formatter-action@v1
        with:
          token: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
          keywords-path: docs/rules
          prefix: unicorn/

The same workflow, on Latchkey

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

name: Title formatter
 
on:
  pull_request_target:
    types: [opened, edited]
  issues:
    types: [opened, edited]
 
jobs:
  Rule:
    timeout-minutes: 30
    runs-on: latchkey-small
    permissions:
      pull-requests: write
      issues: write
    steps:
      - uses: actions/checkout@v6
        with:
          sparse-checkout: docs/rules
      - name: Auto-format rule names in titles
        uses: fregante/keyword-formatter-action@v1
        with:
          token: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
          keywords-path: docs/rules
          prefix: unicorn/
 
 

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.

1 third-party action is referenced by a movable tag. Pin it to the commit SHA (Latchkey resolves and applies this automatically) so a repointed tag cannot change what runs.

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