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Creating and publishing actions

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

Managing custom actions

Learn how to create and manage your own actions, and customize actions shared by the GitHub community.

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

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