We score every popular GitHub Action on security, maintenance, popularity and reliability — which means we end up with data nobody else has about how the Actions ecosystem is actually holding up. These reports publish it. Numbers in each report are a dated snapshot; the live rankings keep moving.
August 2, 2026 · 6 min read
474 of the 1,136 most-starred GitHub Actions are archived or have gone over a year without a commit. The largest has 17,000 stars, and only 9% of the ecosystem publishes immutable releases.
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