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Github Event status #

Github Action Trigger #

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Note: This event will only trigger a workflow run if the workflow file is on the default branch.

Runs your workflow when the status of a Git commit changes. For example, commits can be marked as error, failure, pending, or success. If you want to provide more details about the status change, you may want to use the check_run event. For information about the commit status APIs, see “Objects” in the GraphQL API documentation or “REST API endpoints for commits.”

For example, you can run a workflow when the status event occurs.

on:
  status

If you want to run a job in your workflow based on the new commit state, you can use the github.event.state context. For example, the following workflow triggers when a commit status changes, but the if_error_or_failure job only runs if the new commit state is error or failure.

on:
  status
jobs:
  if_error_or_failure:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    if: >-
      github.event.state == 'error' ||
      github.event.state == 'failure'      
    steps:
      - env:
          DESCRIPTION: ${{ github.event.description }}
        run: |
          echo The status is error or failed: $DESCRIPTION          

Event Payload #

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This event occurs when the status of a Git commit changes. For example, commits can be marked as error, failure, pending, or success. For more information, see "About status checks." For information about the APIs to manage commit statuses, see the GraphQL documentation or "Commit statuses" in the REST API documentation.

To subscribe to this event, a GitHub App must have at least read-level access for the "Commit statuses" repository permission.