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Workflows and actions

Learn about the concepts of workflows and actions in GitHub Actions.

About workflows

Get a high-level overview of GitHub Actions workflows, including triggers, syntax, and advanced features.

Avoiding duplication

You can use reusable workflows or composite actions to avoid duplicating the content of workflows.

About custom actions

Actions are individual tasks that you can combine to create jobs and customize your workflow. You can create your own actions, or use and customize actions shared by the GitHub community.

About monitoring workflows

You can use the tools in GitHub Actions to monitor your workflows, metrics, and self-hosted runners.

Notifications for workflow runs

You can subscribe to notifications about workflow runs that you trigger.

About troubleshooting workflows

You can use the tools in GitHub Actions to debug your workflows.