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checkout

GitHub Repo Pretty sure · GitHub's own action
https://github.com/actions/checkout

The action that cloned a million workflows. Boring, essential, and secure enough to trust with your secrets.

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This is infrastructure that ships billions of CI runs. v7 added real security wins: refusing unsafe fork checkouts by default (pwn request vulnerability fix), moving to ESM for dependency compatibility, credentials isolation in v6. No marketing, no rebadging—just a tool that does one thing correctly. The 'not taking contributions' note is a red flag for maintenance, but GitHub will keep this alive because it's literally foundational to Actions. Signal: pure utility. Slop minimal because there...

8282 stars TypeScript 2026-06-30 2541 days old

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