GitHub Actions installs statistics
By Mathieu Dutour · VS Code Marketplace · Programming Languages
YAML schema validation and auto-completion for GitHub Actions.
GitHub Actions has 219,312 recorded installs on VS Code Marketplace.
It ranks #1422 of 2,501 tracked VS Code Marketplace listings by installs.
It is rated 5.0 out of 5 from 3 ratings.
PluginStats has 4 daily observations since Oct 16, 2026; the latest is from Oct 19, 2026.
Rating: 5.00 / 5 from 3 ratings
About GitHub Actions
GitHub Actions YAML Extension
Provides Github Actions YAML support via yaml-language-server.
Features
1. YAML validation
• Apply schema validation to GitHub Actions • Detects errors such as: • Invalid property value type • Out of enum scope • Required property is missing • Unexpected property
2. Auto completion
• Generate input template for whole GitHub Action • Generate input template for an object (_if provided by schema_)
Including required properties and optional properties with default value
• Support properties intellisense (_if provided by schema_) • Enumerated property value recommendation (_if provided by schema_)
Intellisense is automatically triggered by what you have typed, but you can also hit _Ctrl + Space_ to get what you can type.
3. Hover support
• Hovering over a property shows description (_if provided by schema_)
Developer support
1. Install prerequisites: • latest Visual Studio Code • Node.js v6.0.0 or higher 2. Fork this repository. 3. Build this project.
4. Make changes as necessary and the run the code using F5. Refer to VS Code documentation on how to run and debug the extension. 5. Create a pull-request to this repository and we will review, merge it and publish new version extension regularly.
License
MIT
All contributions are welcome!
Description from the VS Code Marketplace listing.
- actions
- github
- workflow
- yaml
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Adoption over time
7/30/90-day growth
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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=me-dutour-mathieu.vscode-github-actions. First seen Oct 16, 2026; last successful collection Oct 19, 2026. See the methodology.