GitHub Actions installs statistics
By GitHub (16 listings) · VS Code Marketplace · Other
GitHub Actions workflows and runs for github.com hosted repositories in VS Code
GitHub Actions has 8,793,902 recorded installs on VS Code Marketplace.
It ranks #111 of 2,500 tracked VS Code Marketplace listings by installs.
It is rated 3.1 out of 5 from 64 ratings.
PluginStats has 3 daily observations since Oct 16, 2026; the latest is from Oct 18, 2026.
Rating: 3.13 / 5 from 64 ratings
About GitHub Actions
GitHub Actions for VS Code
The GitHub Actions extension lets you manage your workflows, view the workflow run history, and helps with authoring workflows.
Features
Manage workflows and runs
• Manage your workflows and runs without leaving your editor. • Keep track of your CI builds and deployments. • Investigate failures and view logs.
Workflow authoring
Be more confident when authoring and modifying workflows. Find errors before committing workflows with:
Syntax highlighting for workflows and GitHub Actions Expressions makes it clear where values are inserted at execution time:
Integrated documentation for the workflow schema, expression functions, and even event payloads:
Validation and code completion for the YAML schema and GitHub Actions Expressions. Get instant validation and code completion for the workflow schema, expression functions, event payloads, and job or step outputs:
Smart validation and code completion for actions and reusable workflows: the extension automatically parses parameters, inputs, and outputs for referenced actions and called reusable workflows for code-completion and validation.
Getting started
1. Install the extension from the Marketplace. 1. Sign in with your GitHub account and when prompted allow GitHub Actions access to your GitHub account. 1. Open a GitHub repository. 1. You will be able to utilize the syntax features in Workflow files, and you can find the GitHub Actions icon on the left navigation to manage your Workflows.
Supported Features
• Manage your workflows and runs • Edit workflows (syntax highlighting, auto-completion, hovering, and validation) • Keep track of your CI builds and deployments • Investigate failures and view logs • Modify settings like Environments, Secrets, and Variables
Unfortunately, at this time we are not able to support the extension with remote repositories (including github.dev and vscode.dev), so please use the extension with locally downloaded GitHub repositories for the best experience. Please check back here for updates in the future!
We have enabled experimental functionality to support GitHub Enterprise Server, but this feature is an experimental beta and currently unsupported. To try this out, enable the use-enterprise setting to authenticate with your GitHub Enterprise Server Authentication Provider settings
We currently do not have the capability to support Operating System (OS) certificates or enterprise proxies (we plan to support pulling from the VS Code proxy settings), but we have plans for it in the future and it is on our backlog!
Contributing
See CONTRIBUTING.md. A description of the architecture of the extension can be found here.
License
This project is licensed under the terms of the MIT open source license. Please refer to MIT for the full terms.
Description from the VS Code Marketplace listing.
- debuggers
- GitHub Actions Workflow
- github-actions-workflow
Where GitHub Actions sits in the listing
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Charts
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Adoption over time
7/30/90-day growth
Ranking history
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Recent observations
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Data source
Install counts, average rating, and rating counts come from the public Visual Studio Marketplace gallery API. Installs are cumulative and exclude updates.
Listing: https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=GitHub.vscode-github-actions. First seen Oct 16, 2026; last successful collection Oct 18, 2026. See the methodology.