GitHub Actions could be so much better

A detailed critique of GitHub Actions from a long-time daily user, covering four major pain points: the slow and frustrating debugging cycle (requiring multiple git push cycles for trivial fixes), serious security footguns (expression injection via ${{ }}, dangerous pull_request_target event, over-scoped tokens, and imposter SHA commits on forks), inconsistent and limited type system for action inputs, and GitHub's neglect of official first-party actions. The author proposes concrete improvements including interactive debugging, push-time workflow validation, a paranoid security mode, deprecation of pull_request_target, expanded type support, and more officially maintained actions or a pseudo-official community org.

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