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Creating actions

You can create your own actions, use and customize actions shared by the GitHub community, or write and share the actions you build.

Note

GitHub-hosted runners are not currently supported on GitHub Enterprise Server. You can see more information about planned future support on the GitHub public roadmap.

Setting exit codes for actions

You can use exit codes to set the status of an action. GitHub displays statuses to indicate passing or failing actions.

Releasing and maintaining actions

You can leverage automation and open source best practices to release and maintain actions.