# nektos/act

> A Go tool that runs GitHub Actions locally via Docker by reading workflow files from .github/workflows. Useful for fast CI feedback without commits and as a local task runner instead of a Makefile.

- Magnitude: 1.6 out of 10 — Steady
- Stars: 72,095 total · +0 stars on 2026-09-24 (UTC), ≈ 4 by evening
- Star trust: star growth looks organic
- Category: Developer tools · Language: Go · License: MIT · Created: 2019-01-02 · Last push: 2026-08-09
- GitHub: https://github.com/nektos/act · Homepage: https://nektosact.com · Page: https://gitnova.dev/en/r/nektos/act

## Useful for

- Test workflow file changes locally before pushing to the repository
- Run CI steps on your machine to debug a failing job
- Use GitHub Actions as a local task runner instead of a Makefile

## Why it’s here

- 0 stars so far today, about 4 expected by the end of the day.
- Recent forks include notable developers: @BunsDev (834 followers).

## Star trust

Star growth looks organic.

Star-trust labels are heuristics based on the repository’s behavior, not a check of every stargazer.

## Numbers

- Forks: 2,041
- Issues and pull requests: 2,812
- Watchers: 211
- Average over the last week: 11 per day
- Usual pace: 20 per day
- Latest release: v0.2.89 (2026-06-01)

## Stars per day, last 30 days (oldest → newest, today is partial)

2026-09-30 … 2026-10-29: None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None

## Magnitude by day, last 12 days

09-13 2.6, 09-14 2.5, 09-15 1.8, 09-16 1.3, 09-17 1.5, 09-18 1.7, 09-19 1.7, 09-20 1.5, 09-21 1.6, 09-22 1.7, 09-23 1.7, 09-24 1.8

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Magnitude (0–10) measures how fast and how unusually interest in a repository is growing right now. It is not a quality score.
Days are UTC. “So far today” is a fact; “expected by the end of the day” is a forecast.
Summaries and use cases are written by an LLM (DeepSeek V4.1 Flash) from the README and may be inaccurate: verify specific claims (benchmarks, speed, hardware) in the repository itself.
Data as of 2026-09-24 10:53 UTC, updated every 30 minutes.