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Harden GitHub Actions CI/CD workflows for supply-chain security — SHA-pin actions, least-privilege token permissions, verified toolchain installs, OpenSSF Scorecard, and SLSA provenance. Use when adding or auditing GitHub Actions workflows, before making a repository public, when
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Harden GitHub Actions CI/CD workflows for supply-chain security — SHA-pin actions, least-privilege token permissions, verified toolchain installs, OpenSSF Scorecard, and SLSA provenance. Use when adding or auditing GitHub Actions workflows, before making a repository public, when a supply-chain review flags CI gaps, or when standardizing CI hardening across GitHub projects. GitHub-specific by design — GitLab CI and Forgejo Actions are out of scope.
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Harden GitHub Actions
Harden GitHub Actions CI/CD workflows against supply-chain attack: pin what runs, minimise what it can do, and verify what it fetches.
GitHub-specific by design. Unlike most orchestration skills, this one is deliberately bound to one forge. The hardening controls below are not portable concepts wearing GitHub syntax — they are properties of the GitHub Actions execution model itself: third-party actions resolved by mutable git ref, an ambient
GITHUB_TOKENwith repository-wide default scopes, and OIDC-backed SLSA provenance. It has a sibling,harden-gitlab-ci, which is not a translation of this skill: GitLab's risks sit in different places (include:/CI-Catalog components, and aCI_JOB_TOKENthat defaults to own-project-only — so there the work is keeping it scoped, the opposite posture from here). Forgejo Actions is Actions-compatible in shape but resolves actions against its instance's configured registry, so pinning guidance does not transfer unchanged (roadmap H9).
When to Use
- When adding GitHub Actions workflows to a project (after
setup-git-hooks) - When auditing existing
.github/workflows/before making a repository public - When a supply-chain review (or the
supply-chainskill) flags CI hardening gaps - When standardising CI hardening across GitHub projects
Not for: GitLab CI — use harden-gitlab-ci. Not for Forgejo/Gitea Actions — the controls do not carry over unchanged. Say so rather than approximating.
This skill hardens CI workflows. validate-quality-config only reads CI to confirm parity with local hooks — it does not check pinning, permissions, or provenance. The two are complementary.
Required Inputs
- Workflow files — the project's
.github/workflows/*.yml - Release model — does the project publish artifacts/images/packages (needs provenance + signing), or is it internal-only?
- Repository visibility — public or private (affects Scorecard
publish_resultsand OSSF publishing)
The Threat
A CI job runs third-party code (actions, installed tools) with a GITHUB_TOKEN and often OIDC. A mutable action tag (@v4) can be repointed to malicious code; an over-privileged token can push commits, publish packages, or exfiltrate secrets; an unverified curl | sh install can be swapped upstream. Hardening closes all three: pin, least-privilege, verify.
Workflow
Step 1: Inventory and triage
Find every workflow and the hardening gaps in it:
ls .github/workflows/
# Mutable action refs (should be zero — all must be SHA-pinned):
grep -rnE 'uses:.*@(v[0-9]|main|master|latest)' .github/workflows/
# Workflows missing a top-level permissions block:
for f in .github/workflows/*.yml; do grep -q '^permissions:' "$f" || echo "no permissions: $f"; done
# Floating tool versions:
grep -rnE 'version:\s*latest|@latest' .github/workflows/
Aim for a clean 3-way split: ci.yml (lint/test/build on push + PR), scorecard.yml (OpenSSF Scorecard on a schedule), and — only if the project ships artifacts — release.yml (SBOM + SLSA provenance + signing).
Step 2: SHA-pin every action
Pin every uses: to a full 40-character commit SHA with a trailing # vX.Y.Z comment for readability. Never rely on a mutable tag.
# Good — immutable, human-readable, Dependabot-updatable
- uses: actions/checkout@9c091bb21b7c1c1d1991bb908d89e4e9dddfe3e0 # v7.0.0
- uses: actions/setup-java@ad2b38190b15e4d6bdf0c97fb4fca8412226d287 # v5.3.0
- uses: gradle/actions/setup-gradle@3f131e8634966bd73d06cc69884922b02e6faf92 # v6.2.0
# Bad — mutable tag, can be repointed upstream
- uses: actions/checkout@v4
Resolve a tag to its commit SHA:
gh api repos/actions/checkout/commits/v4.2.2 --jq '.sha'
Keep pins current automatically with a Dependabot github-actions update block (see bootstrap-project / the dependency-update config). Dependabot preserves the # vX.Y.Z comment when it bumps a SHA.
The one sanctioned exception: reusable workflows that verify their own release tag — notably slsa-framework/slsa-github-generator — must be referenced by semantic version tag, not SHA (see Step 7). Document the exception in an ADR and in a comment on the line.
Step 3: Least-privilege token permissions
Set a read-only default at the top of every workflow, then elevate per job only where a job genuinely needs to write.
# top of the workflow
permissions:
contents: read
Elevate narrowly, in the specific job:
jobs:
# OpenSSF Scorecard
analysis:
permissions:
security-events: write # upload the SARIF result
id-token: write # publish results to the OSSF API
contents: read
# Release provenance / publish
provenance:
permissions:
actions: read # read the workflow path
id-token: write # mint the OIDC token for signing
contents: write # attach provenance to the release
# packages: write # add only if publishing to GHCR / a registry
Rule of thumb: default contents: read; add id-token: write only for OIDC signing/publish; add contents: write only for jobs that create releases/tags; add packages: write only for registry publish; add security-events: write only for SARIF upload.
Step 4: Harden the checkout
On any workflow that runs with elevated permissions or handles releases (Scorecard, release), stop the checkout from leaving credentials on disk:
- uses: actions/checkout@9c091bb21b7c1c1d1991bb908d89e4e9dddfe3e0 # v7.0.0
with:
persist-credentials: false
Step 5: Verify what you install
Every tool a job installs is attack surface. In order of preference:
- SHA-pinned setup action (best) — toolchains via pinned actions:
- uses: actions/setup-java@ad2b38190b15e4d6bdf0c97fb4fca8412226d287 # v5.3.0 with: { distribution: temurin, java-version: "21" } - uses: xu-cheng/texlive-action@22c04326a5d855880f9d39bb955138bf11c6df80 # v3 - Pinned version + checksum verification for a downloaded binary:
- run: | curl -fsSL -o tool.tar.gz "https://example.com/tool/v1.2.3/tool.tar.gz" echo "abc123... tool.tar.gz" | sha256sum -c - tar xzf tool.tar.gz - Pinned package version for distro/language packages.
Anti-patterns to eliminate (all seen in real workflows):
- run: luarocks install luacheck # no version pin
- run: apt-get install -y -qq pandoc # unversioned distro package
with: { version: latest } # floating action release
- run: curl -fsSL https://x/install.sh | sh # unverified remote script — never
Digest-pin any container image referenced in a run/service step (image@sha256:…, not :latest); base-image and artifact-checksum hardening for the images themselves belongs to setup-container-security.
Step 6: OpenSSF Scorecard
Add a Scorecard workflow to continuously grade the repo's supply-chain posture. Canonical scorecard.yml:
name: Scorecard
on:
branch_protection_rule:
schedule:
- cron: "26 7 * * 1" # weekly, Mondays
workflow_dispatch:
permissions: read-all
jobs:
analysis:
runs-on: ubuntu-latest
permissions:
security-events: write # upload the SARIF result
id-token: write # publish results to the OSSF API
contents: read
steps:
- uses: actions/checkout@9c091bb21b7c1c1d1991bb908d89e4e9dddfe3e0 # v7.0.0
with:
persist-credentials: false
- uses: ossf/scorecard-action@4eaacf0543bb3f2c246792bd56e8cdeffafb205a # v2.4.3
with:
results_file: results.sarif
results_format: sarif
publish_results: true # requires a PUBLIC repo; keep false while private
- uses: github/codeql-action/upload-sarif@dd903d2e4f5405488e5ef1422510ee31c8b32357 # v3
with:
sarif_file: results.sarif
On a private repo set publish_results: false — but note that several Scorecard checks also fail to run while private (Resource not accessible by integration); prefer gating the whole job on visibility so it self-activates at the public gate (see Step 7b).
Scorecard grades the default branch — mind gitflow. Scorecard's content analysis runs against the
repository's default branch (a workflow_dispatch against another ref is refused with only default branch is supported — observed directly). If the project follows the gitflow that bootstrap-project
sets up, develop is the default, so the published score describes the integration branch, not the
main that releases are cut from — the repo is graded on a branch its consumers never fetch. The one
documented exception is the Branch-Protection check, which evaluates a project's default and
release branches (verified against the Scorecard docs); the content-analysis checks
(Pinned-Dependencies, Dangerous-Workflow, Token-Permissions, …) do not. Two honest resolutions:
accept that develop is graded and protect/harden it accordingly, or make main the default and treat
develop as a long-lived branch. Pick one on purpose — this gap lives only where the gitflow
recommendation and the Scorecard workflow meet, so neither skill alone would surface it.
Step 7: Release provenance (if the project ships artifacts)
For projects that publish artifacts/images/packages, attach SLSA build provenance at release. Hash the build outputs, then hand off to the generator — referenced by tag (the sanctioned exception to Step 2):
provenance:
# MUST run after the job that creates the release: with upload-assets:true the generator
# creates the release itself when absent, racing publish and producing a bare, notesless one.
needs: [build, publish]
permissions:
actions: read
id-token: write
contents: write
# slsa-github-generator MUST be tag-pinned (it verifies its own release tag) — the
# documented exception to the SHA-pin rule; record it in an ADR.
uses: slsa-framework/slsa-github-generator/.github/workflows/generator_generic_slsa3.yml@v2.1.0
with:
base64-subjects: ${{ needs.build.outputs.hashes }}
upload-assets: true
Provenance, SBOM (syft), and keyless signing (cosign) at release time are owned by wrapup-sprint's release step — this skill wires the workflow permissions and the tag-pin exception that make them safe. Note the needs: [build, publish] above: because upload-assets: true makes the generator create the release when it runs first, provenance must follow the job that publishes it with changelog notes — the idempotent create-release step is detailed in wrapup-sprint.
Step 7b: Private repositories — gate visibility-sensitive controls
Several controls above behave differently while the repo is private, for two distinct reasons — cannot run and should not run — and neither is obvious until you run them (the failures arrive at the first scheduled Scorecard run and Dependabot's first PR). The honest default is to self-activate them at the public gate rather than leave a manual step to remember. Gate the job (or step) on visibility:
if: ${{ !github.event.repository.private }} # runs only when the repo is public
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name: harden-github-actions description: Harden GitHub Actions CI/CD workflows for supply-chain security — SHA-pin actions, least-privilege token permissions, verified toolchain installs, OpenSSF Scorecard, and SLSA provenance. Use when adding or auditing GitHub Actions workflows, before making a repository public, when a supply-chain review flags CI gaps, or when standardizing CI hardening across GitHub projects. GitHub-specific by design — GitLab CI and Forgejo Actions are out of scope. metadata: author: "Georges Martin <jrjsmrtn@gmail.com>" version: "0.1.34" license: MIT
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name: harden-github-actions
description: Harden GitHub Actions CI/CD workflows for supply-chain security — SHA-pin actions, least-privilege token permissions, verified toolchain installs, OpenSSF Scorecard, and SLSA provenance. Use when adding or auditing GitHub Actions workflows, before making a repository public, when a supply-chain review flags CI gaps, or when standardizing CI hardening across GitHub projects. GitHub-specific by design — GitLab CI and Forgejo Actions are out of scope.
metadata:
author: "Georges Martin <jrjsmrtn@gmail.com>"
version: "0.1.34"
license: MIT
---
# Harden GitHub Actions
Harden GitHub Actions CI/CD workflows against supply-chain attack: pin what runs, minimise what it can do, and verify what it fetches.
> **GitHub-specific by design.** Unlike most orchestration skills, this one is deliberately bound to
> one forge. The hardening controls below are not portable concepts wearing GitHub syntax — they are
> properties of the GitHub Actions execution model itself: third-party actions resolved by mutable
> git ref, an ambient `GITHUB_TOKEN` with **repository-wide default scopes**, and OIDC-backed SLSA
> provenance. It has a **sibling**, `harden-gitlab-ci`, which is not a translation of this skill:
> GitLab's risks sit in different places (`include:`/CI-Catalog components, and a `CI_JOB_TOKEN` that
> defaults to *own-project-only* — so there the work is keeping it scoped, the opposite posture from
> here). Forgejo Actions is Actions-compatible in shape but resolves actions against its instance's
> configured registry, so pinning guidance does not transfer unchanged (roadmap H9).
## When to Use
- When adding GitHub Actions workflows to a project (after `setup-git-hooks`)
- When auditing existing `.github/workflows/` before making a repository public
- When a supply-chain review (or the `supply-chain` skill) flags CI hardening gaps
- When standardising CI hardening across GitHub projects
**Not for:** GitLab CI — use `harden-gitlab-ci`. Not for Forgejo/Gitea Actions — the controls do not carry over unchanged. Say so rather than approximating.
This skill *hardens* CI workflows. `validate-quality-config` only *reads* CI to confirm parity with local hooks — it does not check pinning, permissions, or provenance. The two are complementary.
## Required Inputs
1. **Workflow files** — the project's `.github/workflows/*.yml`
2. **Release model** — does the project publish artifacts/images/packages (needs provenance + signing), or is it internal-only?
3. **Repository visibility** — public or private (affects Scorecard `publish_results` and OSSF publishing)
## The Threat
A CI job runs third-party code (actions, installed tools) with a `GITHUB_TOKEN` and often OIDC. A mutable action tag (`@v4`) can be repointed to malicious code; an over-privileged token can push commits, publish packages, or exfiltrate secrets; an unverified `curl | sh` install can be swapped upstream. Hardening closes all three: **pin**, **least-privilege**, **verify**.
## Workflow
### Step 1: Inventory and triage
Find every workflow and the hardening gaps in it:
```bash
ls .github/workflows/
# Mutable action refs (should be zero — all must be SHA-pinned):
grep -rnE 'uses:.*@(v[0-9]|main|master|latest)' .github/workflows/
# Workflows missing a top-level permissions block:
for f in .github/workflows/*.yml; do grep -q '^permissions:' "$f" || echo "no permissions: $f"; done
# Floating tool versions:
grep -rnE 'version:\s*latest|@latest' .github/workflows/
```
Aim for a clean 3-way split: **`ci.yml`** (lint/test/build on push + PR), **`scorecard.yml`** (OpenSSF Scorecard on a schedule), and — only if the project ships artifacts — **`release.yml`** (SBOM + SLSA provenance + signing).
### Step 2: SHA-pin every action
Pin every `uses:` to a **full 40-character commit SHA** with a trailing `# vX.Y.Z` comment for readability. Never rely on a mutable tag.
```yaml
# Good — immutable, human-readable, Dependabot-updatable
- uses: actions/checkout@9c091bb21b7c1c1d1991bb908d89e4e9dddfe3e0 # v7.0.0
- uses: actions/setup-java@ad2b38190b15e4d6bdf0c97fb4fca8412226d287 # v5.3.0
- uses: gradle/actions/setup-gradle@3f131e8634966bd73d06cc69884922b02e6faf92 # v6.2.0
# Bad — mutable tag, can be repointed upstream
- uses: actions/checkout@v4
```
Resolve a tag to its commit SHA:
```bash
gh api repos/actions/checkout/commits/v4.2.2 --jq '.sha'
```
Keep pins current automatically with a Dependabot `github-actions` update block (see `bootstrap-project` / the dependency-update config). Dependabot preserves the `# vX.Y.Z` comment when it bumps a SHA.
**The one sanctioned exception**: reusable workflows that verify their own release tag — notably `slsa-framework/slsa-github-generator` — **must** be referenced by semantic version tag, not SHA (see Step 7). Document the exception in an ADR and in a comment on the line.
### Step 3: Least-privilege token permissions
Set a read-only default at the top of every workflow, then elevate **per job** only where a job genuinely needs to write.
```yaml
# top of the workflow
permissions:
contents: read
```
Elevate narrowly, in the specific job:
```yaml
jobs:
# OpenSSF Scorecard
analysis:
permissions:
security-events: write # upload the SARIF result
id-token: write # publish results to the OSSF API
contents: read
# Release provenance / publish
provenance:
permissions:
actions: read # read the workflow path
id-token: write # mint the OIDC token for signing
contents: write # attach provenance to the release
# packages: write # add only if publishing to GHCR / a registry
```
Rule of thumb: default `contents: read`; add `id-token: write` only for OIDC signing/publish; add `contents: write` only for jobs that create releases/tags; add `packages: write` only for registry publish; add `security-events: write` only for SARIF upload.
### Step 4: Harden the checkout
On any workflow that runs with elevated permissions or handles releases (Scorecard, release), stop the checkout from leaving credentials on disk:
```yaml
- uses: actions/checkout@9c091bb21b7c1c1d1991bb908d89e4e9dddfe3e0 # v7.0.0
with:
persist-credentials: false
```
### Step 5: Verify what you install
Every tool a job installs is attack surface. In order of preference:
1. **SHA-pinned setup action** (best) — toolchains via pinned actions:
```yaml
- uses: actions/setup-java@ad2b38190b15e4d6bdf0c97fb4fca8412226d287 # v5.3.0
with: { distribution: temurin, java-version: "21" }
- uses: xu-cheng/texlive-action@22c04326a5d855880f9d39bb955138bf11c6df80 # v3
```
2. **Pinned version + checksum verification** for a downloaded binary:
```yaml
- run: |
curl -fsSL -o tool.tar.gz "https://example.com/tool/v1.2.3/tool.tar.gz"
echo "abc123... tool.tar.gz" | sha256sum -c -
tar xzf tool.tar.gz
```
3. **Pinned package version** for distro/language packages.
Anti-patterns to eliminate (all seen in real workflows):
```yaml
- run: luarocks install luacheck # no version pin
- run: apt-get install -y -qq pandoc # unversioned distro package
with: { version: latest } # floating action release
- run: curl -fsSL https://x/install.sh | sh # unverified remote script — never
```
Digest-pin any container image referenced in a `run`/service step (`image@sha256:…`, not `:latest`); base-image and artifact-checksum hardening for the images themselves belongs to `setup-container-security`.
### Step 6: OpenSSF Scorecard
Add a Scorecard workflow to continuously grade the repo's supply-chain posture. Canonical `scorecard.yml`:
```yaml
name: Scorecard
on:
branch_protection_rule:
schedule:
- cron: "26 7 * * 1" # weekly, Mondays
workflow_dispatch:
permissions: read-all
jobs:
analysis:
runs-on: ubuntu-latest
permissions:
security-events: write # upload the SARIF result
id-token: write # publish results to the OSSF API
contents: read
steps:
- uses: actions/checkout@9c091bb21b7c1c1d1991bb908d89e4e9dddfe3e0 # v7.0.0
with:
persist-credentials: false
- uses: ossf/scorecard-action@4eaacf0543bb3f2c246792bd56e8cdeffafb205a # v2.4.3
with:
results_file: results.sarif
results_format: sarif
publish_results: true # requires a PUBLIC repo; keep false while private
- uses: github/codeql-action/upload-sarif@dd903d2e4f5405488e5ef1422510ee31c8b32357 # v3
with:
sarif_file: results.sarif
```
On a **private** repo set `publish_results: false` — but note that several Scorecard *checks* also fail to run while private (`Resource not accessible by integration`); prefer gating the whole job on visibility so it self-activates at the public gate (see **Step 7b**).
**Scorecard grades the default branch — mind gitflow.** Scorecard's content analysis runs against the
repository's **default branch** (a `workflow_dispatch` against another ref is refused with `only default
branch is supported` — observed directly). If the project follows the gitflow that `bootstrap-project`
sets up, `develop` is the default, so the published score describes the **integration** branch, not the
`main` that releases are cut from — the repo is graded on a branch its consumers never fetch. The one
documented exception is the **`Branch-Protection`** check, which evaluates a project's *default **and**
release* branches (verified against the Scorecard docs); the content-analysis checks
(`Pinned-Dependencies`, `Dangerous-Workflow`, `Token-Permissions`, …) do not. Two honest resolutions:
accept that `develop` is graded and protect/harden it accordingly, or make `main` the default and treat
`develop` as a long-lived branch. Pick one on purpose — this gap lives only where the gitflow
recommendation and the Scorecard workflow meet, so neither skill alone would surface it.
### Step 7: Release provenance (if the project ships artifacts)
For projects that publish artifacts/images/packages, attach SLSA build provenance at release. Hash the build outputs, then hand off to the generator — referenced **by tag** (the sanctioned exception to Step 2):
```yaml
provenance:
# MUST run after the job that creates the release: with upload-assets:true the generator
# creates the release itself when absent, racing publish and producing a bare, notesless one.
needs: [build, publish]
permissions:
actions: read
id-token: write
contents: write
# slsa-github-generator MUST be tag-pinned (it verifies its own release tag) — the
# documented exception to the SHA-pin rule; record it in an ADR.
uses: slsa-framework/slsa-github-generator/.github/workflows/generator_generic_slsa3.yml@v2.1.0
with:
base64-subjects: ${{ needs.build.outputs.hashes }}
upload-assets: true
```
Provenance, SBOM (syft), and keyless signing (cosign) at release time are owned by `wrapup-sprint`'s release step — this skill wires the workflow permissions and the tag-pin exception that make them safe. Note the `needs: [build, publish]` above: because `upload-assets: true` makes the generator *create* the release when it runs first, provenance must follow the job that publishes it with changelog notes — the idempotent create-release step is detailed in `wrapup-sprint`.
### Step 7b: Private repositories — gate visibility-sensitive controls
Several controls above behave differently while the repo is private, for **two distinct reasons** —
*cannot run* and *should not run* — and neither is obvious until you run them (the failures arrive at
the first scheduled Scorecard run and Dependabot's first PR). The honest default is to **self-activate
them at the public gate** rather than leave a manual step to remember. Gate the job (or step) on
visibility:
```yaml
if: ${{ !github.event.repository.private }} # runs only when the repo is public
```
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