aver

A GitHub Actions version checker. Scans your GitHub actions workflow files and reports outdated versions.

aver checks your github actions files for any outdated actions, and returns a non-zero status code if it finds any. The output currently looks like:

$ aver
Outdated actions:
File                            Action                   Current  Latest
------------------------------  -----------------------  -------  ------
.github/workflows/fixture.yaml  tailscale/github-action  v3       v4.1.1

SHA-pinned actions behind default branch:
File                            Action            Current SHA  Latest SHA  Branch  Behind
------------------------------  ----------------  -----------  ----------  ------  ------
.github/workflows/fixture.yaml  actions/checkout  d632683      0c366fd     main    26    
.github/workflows/fixture.yaml  actions/setup-go  3d65fa5      7a3fe6c     main    54    

The idea here is that you can help your LLM to create GitHub actions that don't use outdated version of actions. There's a skill available in the repository that you can use with claude code or pi.

You can install it with homebrew: brew install limllib/tap/aver or with go: go install github.com/llimllib/aver/cmd/aver@latest