Act: Running GitHub Actions Locally Before You Push

Fri, 13 Feb 2026 08:00:00 +0000

We have all done the thing. You tweak a workflow file, you can’t run it locally, so you push a commit called “fix ci”, watch it fail, push “fix ci 2”, fail, “actually fix ci”, fail, and by the time it’s green your git history reads like a cry for help. The feedback loop on GitHub Actions is dreadful precisely because the only way to test it is to use the production system itself, slowly, in public. act fixes that by running your workflows locally in Docker.

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Act: Running GitHub Actions Locally Before You Push