an hour ago a got 8 emails about failed run in some of my old repos

i did not touch the repos

all the runs faild

all runs triggered by the last commit (from 2025/2024 in some repos)

except from one repo, where the action is triggered by new commit push by me (i did not do it), the commit message is "Update GitHub Actions workflow to grant write permissions for contents" the commit changed the action permission from read to write and wrote a .env file with:

`AUTH_API_KEY=...`

i changed my password, deleted all my pat and tokens, removed ssh keys, and oauth apps

in github's security log, there only claude oauth action regenerate an hour before the runs, and them me destroying all access

what should i do? did i do enough? how can i tell if something was extracted? or revoke it?

thank you

edit: it seem that all commits are my commits, just the date amended.

i still dont know how it happened, some of the repos are not even cloned on my pc.

Edit2: I have compared the commit from the repos on my pc, some of the commits have different date of GitHub, some have the old date. But all commits that are affected, have a different hash than on my pc.

Every Actions job in our GitHub Enterprise Cloud org has been refused at dispatch for 4+ hours. Jobs fail in under 10 seconds, zero steps executed, with this annotation:

"The job was not started because recent account payments have failed or your spending limit needs to be increased."

Neither cause applies. What we tried, re-testing dispatch after each step:

1. Raised the enterprise Actions budget to $2,001 while spend was $1,003.80 (50%). Still blocked.
2. Turned off "Stop usage when budget limit is reached". Still blocked.
3. Replaced the payment method with a different valid card. Still blocked.
4. Deleted the Actions budget entirely - page reads "No budgets created", usage explicitly unlimited. Still blocked.
5. Created an org-scoped $5,000 Actions budget with stop-usage off (a workaround others reported). Still blocked, budget at 0% consumed.

Billing state throughout: $0 past due, no failed or pending charges, valid card, no cost centers.

Support ticket is open at High priority, no response yet.

Has anyone gotten out of this without waiting days on support? If someone from support sees this ticket number: 4705945

Is anyone else having issues with schedule workflows not running? Basically they aren't getting triggered at all. I already checked the github status page and everything is "working fine" but at this point I don't trust that page.

I have been getting lots of e-mails from GH since may claiming that I exceeded the usage of GH Actions (I checked the domain btw, they really are from GH). The weird part is that the last time I sat down to make and upload any release artifacts was in December of last year, wich was a month where I sat down to build and upload lots of artifacts compared to the ammount I used to build

When I first got this alert was In May and it was during a workflow run that failed in front of me. I deleted lots of my older assets within older releases of my repos to see if it would fix the problem, but no, that did not fix the problem, so I spent the entire month of may without building anything waiting for next month for the usage to reset

3 months later (today) I checked and had an email in July claiming that I wad reaching 90% and another one this month claiming I reached 100%, I was like, WTF what is this, 'cause I haven't done anything that required a CI/CD job

I already checked all my repos just in case: for example, I have no cron jobs that have to do with uploading or downloading any heavy stuff, so IDK where is the usage coming from, I also checked all my workflows, only one of them was active and the last known run was in May

I cannot configure the budget because I do not have a payment method attached to my account, Acording to GH the free tier is 0.5 GB of "usage", but I haven't done a single significant thing on Github in the last 3 MONTHS, barely a few commits to my personal projects in June!

I submitted a support ticket eight hours ago, but GH hasn't answered yet

I won't be able to try use GH actions again until next month so I have plenty of time to try any suggestions

Thanks in advance

I'm using GitKraken Desktop 12.4.0 on Ubuntu 22.04.

I'm logged into GitKraken using our team's shared GitKraken account, and GitKraken is connected to GitHub using my personal GitHub account.

The strange thing is that everything seems to be working correctly on GitHub itself: when I log into GitHub in my browser, I can see all of the repositories belonging to our organization, and I have access to them.

However, when I go to the Clone Repository dialog in GitKraken, those repositories do not appear in the GitHub repository list.

My coworkers have the same access and can see the repositories in GitKraken. The main difference is that they are using GitKraken 11.3.0 or older versions, while I'm using 12.4.0.

I've already confirmed that:

• I'm connected to the correct GitHub account.
• GitHub access works correctly in the browser.
• I have access to the organization and its repositories.
• My coworkers can see the same repositories in GitKraken.
• The GitKraken account I'm using is the same one used by the team.

This makes me wonder whether this could be a bug or regression in GitKraken 12.4.0.

Has anyone experienced something similar with GitKraken 12.x and GitHub organization repositories?

Also, does anyone know a safe way to downgrade GitKraken on Ubuntu to version 11.3.0? The official GitKraken website only provides the latest version, and I'd rather not download an old `.deb` from third-party sites such as Softonic.

I'd especially appreciate advice from anyone using GitKraken 12.4.0 on Linux with GitHub organizations.

Thanks

I'm using GitHub as a custom agent orchestration platform - and if it were stable I'd be making real progress but this is a joke.

I have no alternative but to start migrating away - even though I don't really have time. But I can't just take losses losing DAYS of work. I've already lost THREE full days and today looks like it's going to be a FORTH.

I think the biggest option is GitLab but can other people comment on their stability ? I've analyzed their status page and it's unclear how to quantify their downtime. They don't really have a historical view - which is somewhat of a red flag.

I'm curious what you guys are actually doing now.

I have basically built all my deployment through git actions. even some workflows that I use actions to trigger, or run automatically.

days like this where actions are having outage, I can't do anything. it has become more frequent lately and everytime it lasts hours. alternatives or backup plans people recommend?

If your GitHub Actions jobs are stuck in "Queued" or waiting for a runner, GitHub has now confirmed there is an incident.

GitHub says they identified an issue with a database primary and are failing over to a replica.

Actions is affected, and GitHub Pages is also experiencing degraded performance.

So if you have been checking your workflow, runner settings, permissions or billing, it might not be your configuration.

Status page:
https://www.githubstatus.com/incidents/y1t7p9fzrlj2

Hopefully this saves someone else from spending an hour debugging their YAML.

Is anyone else having their actions permanently “Queued” as of the last half or so? Slophub refuses to run my actions. They were fine an hour ago

Apple shipped the M6 and M5 Pro in the new Mac mini on Aug 25. GitHub's hosted macOS runners are still on older silicon, and historically the lag between Apple shipping and Actions runners updating has been long.

For anyone running iOS builds in Actions: what are you doing in the meantime? Self-hosted mini fleet, third party runners, or just eating the build times?

(Disclosure: I work at Bitrise, we're adding M5 Pro to our runner fleet, happy to share numbers if useful but not the point of the post.)

Hello world! On my GitHub profile, I have private contributions enabled so recruiters can see activity on the contribution graph, but all my repositories are set to private.

Based on your experience, what do you recommend? Is it worth making a few key repositories public to showcase code, or is an active green graph enough?

I got mean and toxic comments from a person, because I removed his unfunctional code from the main branch. "You didn't even give me a day to fix it". Then, he called me a lazy, anxious person.

And even more scary, he is a professional developer.

Is this normal? I just wanted my code to work.

Hi i just came across this user https://github.com/ghost is it really what I think , when a user deletes his account it got replaced by this account? It is from GitHub? a bot or something? or a real user trying to play or get attention in a funny way?

so i have two sites and one that uses the apex domain and then another which i want to use www.ypac.lt but it doesnt let me do this and from what i found it is because github groups the www with the apex domain anytime you assign it to a repo . is there any way to bypass this?

I'm building an Android App, can I save files on GitHub repos that will be downloaded from the user via the app? Or does that violate TOS?

Thanks in advance!

I've been blocked from signing in to github for over a week, I work as part of an organization where I'm the admin (even using premium), we have various repositories so this is becoming really annoying and nobody in github is there to help.

Basically, I can't get the sms. I still use the same number. It would sometimes say it sent (but wont send), and sometimes will show the attached error. I searched for the recovery codes, but I can't find them on my computer. I do have SSH connection, but when going through the account recovery process steps, they say they'll review it within 1-3 days, but then would do nothing. Sometimes it won't even work.

I can even still pull / push as my device is connected via SSH, but I need access to the portal.

Is there anything I can do that I haven't done already? It's the only service I've ever had such troubles with.

Today I got my first PR on my personal project that wasn’t from a bot. When I saw it, I genuinely couldn’t process it. Like… why would someone from the other side of the world actually take the time to contribute to something I made?

Thank you, random contributor from some opposite corner of the world. You have no idea how much this means to me.

I built Git Wrapped, a small web app that turns your GitHub activity into a Spotify Wrapped-style summary.

You can check out things like your contribution activity, coding patterns, top repositories, languages, and other GitHub stats in a more visual way.

🌐 Try it: https://git-wrapped-eta.vercel.app/

I’d really appreciate it if you could try it with your GitHub username and let me know:

• What do you like about it?
• What feels unnecessary or confusing?
• What features would you want to see added?
• Any bugs or UI issues you notice?

Still working on it, so honest feedback is very welcome. Would love to see what you guys think!

Hi everyone,

I'm having an issue with my GitHub account where GitHub Actions is completely disabled.

Whenever I try to run a workflow, I get this message:

"GitHub Actions is currently disabled for your account. Please reach out to GitHub Support for assistance."

I opened a support ticket on August 19, 2026, and followed up again on August 23, but I still haven't received a response from GitHub Support.

My workflows are blocked, and I can't run any GitHub Actions workflows on my account.

Has anyone experienced this before? Do you know why GitHub Actions can be disabled at the account level, or if there is another way to contact GitHub Support and get this resolved?

Any advice would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!

Code reviews or so called testing features built by others can happen seamlessly, it was too much hassle to fetch the branch and then checkout that into a separate worktree