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Difficulty using GitHub Actions Marketplace to find and evaluate actions

4/10 Low

Users struggle to find suitable actions in the GitHub Actions Marketplace and evaluate their quality. A survey revealed that 7 out of 25 participants found it difficult to navigate and select appropriate actions, leading some teams to maintain their own local actions instead.

Category
ecosystem
Workaround
solid
Stage
build
Freshness
persistent
Scope
single_lib
Upstream
open
Recurring
Yes
Buyer Type
team
Maintainer
slow

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Query: “What are the most common pain points with GitHub Actions in 2025?3/27/2026

where 7 out of 25 participants found it difficult... influences the reliance on Marketplace versus Local Actions... there are still many repositories that prefer to maintain their own GHA locally within their repositories.

Created: 3/27/2026Updated: 3/27/2026