Overview

Caution

This is a derivative of nektos/act between version v0.2.71 from January 2025 and v0.2.72 February 2025

• Support for macOS VMs using tart -P tart://
• --use-new-action-cache has been removed, the default clone mode of nektos/act has been removed
• CI tests are run in 6min compared to 17min on nektos/act
• Flags --pull=false and --rebuild=false are inverted to --no-poll and --no-rebuild
• YAML Anchors are supported

Act User Guide

Please look at the act user guide for more documentation.

Support

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Contributing

Want to contribute to act? Awesome! Check out the contributing guidelines to get involved.

Manually building from source

• Install Go tools 1.24+ - (https://golang.org/doc/install)
• Clone this repo git clone [email protected]:actions-oss/act-cli.git
• Run unit tests with make test
• Build and install: make install