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Agent-CI is local GitHub Actions for your agents.

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GitHub Actions for Agents

by pistoriusp·Mar 25, 2026·3 points·2 comments
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Official runner binary locally with pause-on-failure, beating act on compatibility.

Strengths
  • •Mocks control plane API instead of re-implementing runner logic for better compatibility.
  • •Bind-mount caching eliminates network round-trips for node_modules and dependencies.
  • •Pauses containers on failure allowing stateful fixes without restarting the whole job.
Weaknesses
  • •Requires Docker and specific host filesystem layout, adding local setup complexity.
  • •Local-only focus means no remote debugging or shared runner logs.
Target Audience

Backend developers, DevOps engineers, AI agent developers

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act · GitHub Actions · nektos/act

Post Description

Hi everyone,

I really dislike the fix, commit, and wait loop that is involved with CI. I decided to fix that by shortening the loop. I did that by mocking the GH Actions control pane: the runner is the official GH runner, but the API is a mock.

What you get is caching in ~0 ms. Pause on failure. Let your agent fix it and retry, without pushing!

It's easy for humans, but even easier to AI to validate that your actually going to pass CI - the result is that an agent won't tell you it's done if CI doesn't pass.

https://github.com/redwoodjs/agent-ci

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