GitHub Actions

A Silo extension that surfaces GitHub Actions workflow status directly in your editor — across every open workspace, without leaving your code.

What you get

• Status bar item — live count of failing and running workflows for the active workspace, always visible at the bottom of the window
• Workspace badges and decorations — failure counts and status labels appear next to each workspace in the sidebar so you can spot problems at a glance
• Workflow modal — click the status bar item to open a full list of failing and running runs, with one-click re-run of a workflow and links to GitHub
• Failure notifications — desktop alerts when a new failure is detected in any open workspace
• Per-workspace branch filter — optionally restrict monitoring to only the checked-out branch for each workspace independently
• Configurable polling — separate intervals for the active workspace and background workspaces

Screenshots

Status bar

Workflow modal

Requirements

This extension uses the gh CLI to authenticate and fetch workflow data. Install it and run gh auth login before installing the extension.

Installing

From a GitHub Release

1. Go to Releases.
2. Right-click the .tgz asset → Copy link address.
3. In Silo: Settings → Extensions, paste the URL and click Install.

From source

git clone https://github.com/silo-code/silo-extensions
cd silo-extensions/github-actions
npm install
npm run build

Then in Silo: Settings → Extensions → Install from folder, point at this directory.

Usage

Once installed and authenticated, the extension starts polling automatically. A status bar item appears at the bottom right showing the state of the active workspace's repo:

Click the status bar item to open the workflow modal for the active workspace. From there you can refresh, re-run failed jobs, copy run URLs, and open runs on GitHub.

Branch filter

Each workspace has its own Only monitor the checked-out branch toggle at the bottom of the modal. When enabled, only runs on the branch currently checked out in that workspace's folder are shown — runs on other branches are filtered out. The setting persists per workspace across restarts. Other workspaces are unaffected.

Settings

Open Settings → GitHub Actions to configure:

Permissions

Declared in package.json under silo.permissions:

• process — run gh api to fetch workflow runs (and trigger re-runs) and gh auth status to check authentication

Building

npm install
npm run build        # one-shot
npm run build:watch  # watch mode