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

17 mentions on Hacker News by 16 people: 2 stories, 15 comments · first 2019-08-23 · latest 2026-01-14

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  1. A lot of the pain of GitHub Actions gets much better using tools like action-tmate: https://github.com/mxschmitt/action-tmate As soon as I need more than two tries to get some workflow working, I set up a tmate session and debug things…
    comment by arch1t3cht · 2026-01-14 · in I hate GitHub Actions with passion
  2. I'm using tmate for this: https://github.com/mxschmitt/action-tmate
    comment by stabbles · 2026-01-12 · in Launch a Debugging Terminal into GitHub Actions
  3. could have just used https://github.com/mxschmitt/action-tmate
    comment by pulkitsh1234 · 2025-03-01 · in How to gain code execution on hundreds of millions of people and popular apps
  4. …wrong. In addition to the default setup, it's recommended to limit access with an SSH key [1]. [0] https://github.com/mxschmitt/action-tmate [1] https://github.com/mxschmitt/action-tmate?tab=readme-ov-file...
    comment by Etheryte · 2024-03-12 · in Using my new Raspberry Pi to run an existing GitHub Action
  5. …shell actions[0] that can be used for troubleshooting CI failures on the GH runners themselves. [0] https://github.com/mxschmitt/action-tmate
    comment by csnover · 2023-11-12 · in GitHub Actions Are a Problem
  6. You might also be interested in https://github.com/mxschmitt/action-tmate , which enables SSH to workers for debugging. If you have trouble reproducing issues on CI, this can be a life saver (or at least save a few hours of…
    comment by adobrawy · 2023-11-12 · in GitHub Actions Are a Problem
  7. Been through that git commit; git push; repeat cycle too much as well until i discovered https://github.com/mxschmitt/action-tmate which gives a shell in between steps, which does not help with all problems but sure it's makes it less…
    comment by kaikoenig · 2023-09-22 · in GitHub Actions could be so much better
  8. …very simple workflows. I've found this action to be more useful against the endless PR stream: https://github.com/mxschmitt/action-tmate You drop it in your workflow and get an SSH shell into the worker, figure things out iteratively, then…
    comment by reubenmorais · 2022-11-26 · in Act: Run your GitHub Actions locally
  9. …with SSH. [1] https://github.com/nektos/act [2] https://github.com/actions/virtual-environments [3] https://github.com/mxschmitt/action-tmate
    comment by thinkafterbef · 2021-10-13 · in We want to fix GitHub Actions
  10. It's pretty easy to do with github actions. https://github.com/mxschmitt/action-tmate
    comment by 5e92cb50239222b · 2021-10-08 · in How the .NET Foundation kerfuffle became a brouhaha
  11. …with mxschmitt's action[1] so we can step through the playbook, etc. [0]: https://tmate.io/ [1]: https://github.com/mxschmitt/action-tmate
    comment by edaemon · 2021-08-27 · in Ansible Techniques I Wish I’d Known Earlier
  12. Thought I'd get their docs updated - https://github.com/mxschmitt/action-tmate#manually-triggered...
    comment by horse666 · 2021-04-17 · in Work with GitHub Actions in Your Terminal with GitHub CLI
  13. …Still agree that it should be easier and not require third-party tools/actions, though. [1]: https://github.com/mxschmitt/action-tmate [2]: https://github.com/nektos/act
    comment by degraafc · 2021-04-15 · in Work with GitHub Actions in Your Terminal with GitHub CLI
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    Debug GitHub Actions with SSH
    story by mxschmitt · 2020-11-17 · 0 comments
  15. …See action-tmate [1] and fastmac [2] for reference, as well as previous discussion on HN [3]. [1]: https://github.com/mxschmitt/action-tmate [2]: https://github.com/fastai/fastmac [3]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24452384
    comment by divbzero · 2020-09-27 · in Catalina VM
  16. …to update profile ( https://github.com/marketplace/actions/waka-box ), or tmate connection ( https://github.com/mxschmitt/action-tmate ).
    comment by Ask11 · 2020-06-18 · in GitHub Actions Ranking – Top
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    Debug Your GitHub Actions via SSH by Using tmate
    story by mxschmitt · 2019-08-23 · 0 comments