Alternatives

Metadata Action alternatives for AI agents.

Compare similar skills by workflow fit, trust score, quality, GitHub adoption, maintenance, and install readiness.

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Metadata Action

GitHub Action to extract metadata (tags, labels) from Git reference and GitHub events for Docker

100
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Trust
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#1

Build Push Action

Similarity 154Trust 93Excellent 100

GitHub Action to build and push Docker images with Buildx

5.3K starsJun 15, 2026 pushgithub-automationTypeScriptGitHub
$ npx skills add docker/build-push-action
#2

Setup Buildx Action

Similarity 152Trust 91Excellent 100

GitHub Action to set up Docker Buildx

1.3K starsJun 15, 2026 pushgithub-automationTypeScriptGitHub
$ npx skills add docker/setup-buildx-action
#3

Action Gh Release

Similarity 139Trust 94Excellent 100

📦 :octocat: GitHub Action for creating GitHub Releases

5.7K starsJun 13, 2026 pushgithub-automationTypeScriptGitHub
$ npx skills add softprops/action-gh-release
#4

Paths Filter

Similarity 138Trust 93Excellent 100

Conditionally run actions based on files modified by PR, feature branch or pushed commits

3.2K starsMay 6, 2026 pushgithub-automationTypeScriptGitHub
$ npx skills add dorny/paths-filter
#5

Actions Hugo

Similarity 136Trust 94Excellent 100

GitHub Actions for Hugo ⚡️ Setup Hugo quickly and build your site fast. Hugo extended, Hugo Modules, Linux (Ubuntu), macOS, and Windows are supported.

1.6K starsJun 8, 2026 pushgithub-automationTypeScriptGitHub
$ npx skills add peaceiris/actions-hugo
#6

Android Emulator Runner

Similarity 136Trust 96Excellent 100

A GitHub Action for installing, configuring and running hardware-accelerated Android Emulators on macOS virtual machines.

1.3K starsJun 16, 2026 pushgithub-automationTypeScriptGitHub
$ npx skills add ReactiveCircus/android-emulator-runner
#7

Wrangler Action

Similarity 136Trust 93Excellent 98

🧙‍♀️ easily deploy cloudflare workers applications using wrangler and github actions

1.9K starsMay 12, 2026 pushgithub-automationTypeScriptGitHub
$ npx skills add cloudflare/wrangler-action
#8

Tauri Action

Similarity 136Trust 92Excellent 100

Build your Web application as a Tauri binary for macOS, Linux and Windows

1.6K starsJun 15, 2026 pushgithub-automationTypeScriptGitHub
$ npx skills add tauri-apps/tauri-action
#9

Action Setup

Similarity 136Trust 94Excellent 100

Install pnpm package manager

1.3K starsJun 15, 2026 pushgithub-automationTypeScriptGitHub
$ npx skills add pnpm/action-setup
#10

Test Reporter

Similarity 136Trust 93Excellent 100

Displays test results from popular testing frameworks directly in GitHub

1.2K starsJun 3, 2026 pushgithub-automationTypeScriptGitHub
$ npx skills add dorny/test-reporter
#11

Actions

Similarity 135Trust 92Excellent 100

GitHub Actions for the R community

1.1K starsJun 16, 2026 pushgithub-automationTypeScriptGitHub
$ npx skills add r-lib/actions
#12

Goreleaser Action

Similarity 135Trust 92Excellent 100

GitHub Action for GoReleaser

1.0K starsJun 5, 2026 pushgithub-automationTypeScriptGitHub
$ npx skills add goreleaser/goreleaser-action
#13

Expo Github Action

Similarity 135Trust 89Excellent 100

Expo GitHub Action makes it easy to automate EAS builds or updates

1.0K starsJun 2, 2026 pushgithub-automationTypeScriptGitHub
$ npx skills add expo/expo-github-action
#14

Snk

Similarity 130Trust 93Excellent 98

🟩⬜ Generates a snake game from a github user contributions graph and output a screen capture as animated svg or gif

5.9K starsApr 29, 2026 pushgithub-automationTypeScriptGitHub
$ npx skills add Platane/snk
#15

FTP Deploy Action

Similarity 130Trust 92Excellent 100

Deploys a GitHub project to a FTP server using GitHub actions

5.1K starsApr 23, 2026 pushgithub-automationTypeScriptGitHub
$ npx skills add SamKirkland/FTP-Deploy-Action
#16

Docker Github Actions Runner

Similarity 130Trust 88Excellent 100

This will run the new self-hosted github actions runners with docker-in-docker

2.3K starsJun 10, 2026 pushgithub-automationShellGitHub
$ npx skills add myoung34/docker-github-actions-runner

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