GitHub Actions for VS Code

Simple, unofficial extension to interact with GitHub Actions from within VS Code.

Installation

1. Install extension
2. Open a repository with a github.com origin
3. When prompted, allow GitHub Actions to access your github account

Preview features

Enable the github-actions.preview-features setting to test the new workflow editor features (reload after enabling the setting).

Auto-complete and documentation

No additional YAML extension needed, this extension includes a built-in language server with full support for the workflow schema.

Auto-complete actions parameters

Auto-completion and validation for every action you reference in uses:

Auto-complete runner label

Smart auto-complete and evaluation of expressions

Auto-complete and validate github event expressions

The extension knows about all the webhook payloads and suggests and auto-completes event payload fields

Features

View workflows for the currently opened repository

View workflow runs and their status

Inspect logs to see failures

Trigger runs

If a workflow uses repository_dispatch as a trigger, you can start a new workflow run from the workflow context menu:

Or from the workflow list:

Or from the editor when editing a workflow:

Pin workflows and see their status updated automatically

You can pin workflows to the status bar per workspace, and automatically see the status of the most recent run. For example, to see if the change you just pushed passes the CI Build:

1. To setup, configure the "github-actions.workflows.pinned.workflows" property on a global level, or per workspace (.vscode/settings.json):

{
    "github-actions.workflows.pinned.workflows": [".github/workflows/build.yml", ".github/workflows/create.yml"],
}

2. To enable auto-refresh via polling, set refresh.enabled to true. This works by polling the workflow runs API with a default interval of 30 seconds. You can customized the interal via refresh.interval:

{
    "github-actions.workflows.pinned.workflows": [".github/workflows/build.yml", ".github/workflows/create.yml"],
    "github-actions.workflows.pinned.refresh.enabled": true,
    "github-actions.workflows.pinned.refresh.interval": 65,
}

Known issues