We’re building gh-git-action-cli — an open-source local GitHub Actions runner in Go

jadeja shaktisinh — Fri, 22 May 2026 07:24:32 +0000

We started building gh-git-action-cli, a GitHub CLI extension that executes .github/workflows/ locally instead of relying on GitHub-hosted runners.

The goal is simple:
make CI feedback loops faster, safer, and fully local.

Problems we wanted to solve:

waiting several minutes for GitHub Actions to fail on small mistakes
constantly syncing secrets to cloud runners
burning GitHub Actions minutes during development/testing

Current features:

Parses GitHub workflow YAML locally
Executes jobs using native shell processes or Docker
Injects local .env secrets directly into runtime memory
Blocks broken pushes using local git hooks
Bubble Tea TUI for workflow selection/logging
Local execution analytics using bbolt

Stack:

Go
Cobra
Bubble Tea / Lip Gloss
Viper
Go-YAML
bbolt

We initially used AI tools to bootstrap the setup and get a working prototype running quickly. Now we want to grow it into a serious production-grade open-source utility with community help.

We’re looking for:

Go developers
DevOps / CI-CD engineers
TUI designers
testers who enjoy breaking things

GitHub Repo:
https://github.com/jadejashaktisinh/gh-git-action-cli

Would love feedback, contributors, or architecture suggestions from the community.

DEV Community: jadeja shaktisinh

We’re building gh-git-action-cli — an open-source local GitHub Actions runner in Go