Sharing actions and workflows from your private repository

You can share an action or reusable workflow without publishing them publicly.

If you make a private repository accessible to GitHub Actions workflows in other repositories, outside collaborators on the other repositories can indirectly access the private repository, even though they do not have direct access to these repositories. The outside collaborators can view logs for workflow runs when actions or workflows from the private repository are used.
To allow runners to download these actions, GitHub passes a scoped installation token to the runner. This token has read access to the repository, and automatically expires after one hour.

Store the action or reusable workflow in a private repository. For more information, seeAbout repositories.
On GitHub, navigate to the main page of the private repository.
Under your repository name, click Settings.
In the left sidebar, click Actions, then clickGeneral.
To grant access to other private repositories, in theAccess section at the bottom of the page, selectAccessible from repositories owned by 'USERNAME' user.
ClickSave to apply the settings.

Next steps

To reuse your shared workflows, seeReuse workflows.