depmedic / benchmarks / tannerlinsley/react-query

tannerlinsley/react-query - GitHub Actions cost & CI smells

From the depmedic OSS benchmark dataset. Source: public workflow YAML in tannerlinsley/react-query/.github/workflows.

Workflows

Per-run $ (modeled)

$0.45

Monthly $ @ 30/day

$403.2

ci-doctor findings

Numbers are modeled: 8 minutes per priced job, 30 runs per day per workflow, 30-day month, GitHub-hosted runner rate sheet. tannerlinsley/react-query's real run frequency is unknown to me. Smells, however, are real - they come from parsing the actual YAML.

Findings by rule

Rule	Hits
`pinned-action-sha`	9
`missing-timeout`	7
`missing-concurrency`	2
`fetch-depth-zero`	2

Per-workflow breakdown

Workflow	Jobs	Per-run $	Findings
`pr.yml`	4	$0.26	11
`autofix.yml`	1	$0.06	2
`labeler.yml`	1	$0.06	2
`release.yml`	1	$0.06	4
`detect-agent.yml`	2	$0.00	1

Examples of what ci-doctor reports

pr.yml · WARN pinned-action-sha
TanStack/config/.github/setup@main is not SHA-pinned. Mutable refs let upstream replace the action under you. Pin to a 40-char commit SHA and add a comment with the version. Run `npx pin-actions` to do all pins automatically.

pr.yml · WARN pinned-action-sha
nrwl/nx-set-shas@v4.4.0 is not SHA-pinned. Mutable refs let upstream replace the action under you. Pin to a 40-char commit SHA and add a comment with the version. Run `npx pin-actions` to do all pins automatically.

autofix.yml · WARN pinned-action-sha
TanStack/config/.github/setup@main is not SHA-pinned. Mutable refs let upstream replace the action under you. Pin to a 40-char commit SHA and add a comment with the version. Run `npx pin-actions` to do all pins automatically.

autofix.yml · WARN missing-timeout
Job 'autofix' has no timeout-minutes. Default is 360 (6h). A hung job can drain your CI budget.

labeler.yml · WARN missing-concurrency
No top-level concurrency block. New pushes will not cancel in-flight runs of stale commits, doubling spend on rapid-push branches.

What you can do

If you maintain tannerlinsley/react-query or a similar workflow shape, three patterns probably move the most dollars per minute of work:

Add a concurrency: block with cancel-in-progress: true on every PR-triggered workflow.
Set timeout-minutes on every job (default is 6 hours).
Make sure every setup-* action sets cache: <ecosystem>.

Free CLIs that automate the audit and the pin step:

npx ci-doctor             # 14-rule audit
npx ci-doctor --fix       # auto-apply the four safe fixes
npx pin-actions           # pin every uses: ref to a SHA
npx gha-budget            # estimate per-run $ + monthly

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