GitHub Actions Scientific CI Starter

Use this skill to generate a repository-aware GitHub Actions workflow that runs validation, site generation, tests, and a small smoke subset for this project.

What This Skill Does

• renders a ready-to-commit workflow YAML file
• targets the repository's make validate, make build-site, and make test entry points
• optionally includes a list of smoke targets for faster CI confidence checks

When To Use It

• when you need a starter for ci-for-scientific-pipelines
• when you want a canonical Actions workflow around the current Makefile
• when you need a reproducible template before adding heavier matrix or cache logic

Run

python3 skills/reproducible-workflows/github-actions-scientific-ci-starter/scripts/render_github_actions_scientific_ci.py --workflow-out scratch/github-actions/sciskill_ci.yml --summary-out scratch/github-actions/sciskill_ci_summary.json --smoke-target smoke-zarr --smoke-target smoke-openmm-md --smoke-target smoke-optuna

Notes

• The generated workflow is intentionally conservative and single-job.
• Extend it only after the base validation path is stable in your own CI environment.