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Glossary

  • GITHUB_TOKEN permission checked by automation only, still a draft
    One grant of access to a workflow’s GITHUB_TOKEN, such as contents: read, or the shorthand read-all, write-all or {}; the schema’s gha_permission type, used by a workflow’s permissions and a job’s job_permissions, and what this repository’s workflows grant.

  • Repository ruleset checked by automation only, still a draft
    A ruleset: named rules GitHub enforces on the branches, tags or pushes of a repository, organization or enterprise, with a target, an enforcement (active, evaluate or disabled), ref conditions, bypass actors and rule types. The schema models it as GhaRepositoryRuleset.

  • Required status check checked by automation only, still a draft
    A status check that a ruleset requires to pass before a change reaches a ref it targets; its name is the context a check run reports, which GitHub Actions takes from the job’s name or id, as caller / called for a job of a called workflow. The schema models it as GhaRequiredStatusCheck.

  • Reusable workflow checked by automation only, still a draft
    A workflow that other workflows call as a job because its on key names workflow_call, declaring the inputs, outputs and secrets its callers pass and read; the schema models it as GhaReusableWorkflow, and a calling job names it in uses with no runs-on or runner group.