Alternatives

Harden Runner alternatives for AI agents.

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

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Harden Runner

Harden-Runner is a CI/CD security agent that works like an EDR for GitHub Actions runners. It monitors network egress, file integrity, and process activity on those runners, detecting threats in real-time.

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#1

Actions Gh Pages

Similarity 131Trust 96Excellent 100

GitHub Actions for GitHub Pages 🚀 Deploy static files and publish your site easily. Static-Site-Generators-friendly.

5.3K starsJun 15, 2026 pushgithub-automationTypeScriptGitHub
$ npx skills add peaceiris/actions-gh-pages
#2

Github Pages Deploy Action

Similarity 130Trust 95Excellent 100

🚀 Automatically deploy your project to GitHub Pages using GitHub Actions. This action can be configured to push your production-ready code into any branch you'd like.

4.6K starsJun 15, 2026 pushgithub-automationTypeScriptGitHub
$ npx skills add JamesIves/github-pages-deploy-action
#3

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
#4

Changed Files

Similarity 130Trust 95Excellent 100

:octocat: Github action to retrieve all (added, copied, modified, deleted, renamed, type changed, unmerged, unknown) files and directories.

2.7K starsJun 11, 2026 pushgithub-automationTypeScriptGitHub
$ npx skills add tj-actions/changed-files
#5

Actions Hugo

Similarity 128Trust 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

Action Setup

Similarity 128Trust 94Excellent 100

Install pnpm package manager

1.3K starsJun 15, 2026 pushgithub-automationTypeScriptGitHub
$ npx skills add pnpm/action-setup
#7

Add And Commit

Similarity 128Trust 94Excellent 100

:octocat: Automatically commit changes made in your workflow run directly to your repo

1.3K starsJun 15, 2026 pushgithub-automationTypeScriptGitHub
$ npx skills add EndBug/add-and-commit
#8

Setup Gcloud

Similarity 128Trust 89Excellent 98

A GitHub Action for installing and configuring the gcloud CLI.

1.9K starsApr 7, 2026 pushgithub-automationTypeScriptGitHub
$ npx skills add google-github-actions/setup-gcloud
#9

Run Gemini Cli

Similarity 127Trust 88Excellent 98

A GitHub Action invoking the Gemini CLI.

2.0K starsMay 11, 2026 pushgithub-automationTypeScriptGitHub
$ npx skills add google-github-actions/run-gemini-cli
#10

Goreleaser Action

Similarity 127Trust 92Excellent 100

GitHub Action for GoReleaser

1.0K starsJun 5, 2026 pushgithub-automationTypeScriptGitHub
$ npx skills add goreleaser/goreleaser-action
#11

Expo Github Action

Similarity 127Trust 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
#12

Gh Aw

Similarity 124Trust 93Excellent 100

GitHub Agentic Workflows

4.6K starsJun 18, 2026 pushgithub-automationGoGitHub
$ npx skills add github/gh-aw
#13

Auth

Similarity 124Trust 88Excellent 85

A GitHub Action for authenticating to Google Cloud.

1.3K starsNov 15, 2025 pushgithub-automationTypeScriptGitHub
$ npx skills add google-github-actions/auth
#14

Action Tmate

Similarity 124Trust 95Excellent 100

Debug your GitHub Actions via SSH by using tmate to get access to the runner system itself.

3.5K starsMay 29, 2026 pushgithub-automationJavaScriptGitHub
$ npx skills add mxschmitt/action-tmate
#15

Actionlint

Similarity 124Trust 92Excellent 100

:octocat: Static checker for GitHub Actions workflow files

4.0K starsJun 11, 2026 pushgithub-automationGoGitHub
$ npx skills add rhysd/actionlint
#16

Action Gh Release

Similarity 123Trust 94Excellent 100

📦 :octocat: GitHub Action for creating GitHub Releases

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

How to choose

When should you switch?

Use an alternative when it has a clearer install path, higher trust score, fresher maintenance, or better platform fit for your current agent stack. Keep Harden Runner if it already passes your workflow test and repository review.

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