Code Config — Github Actions Snippet
Tiny SAMPLE tooling config snippet (github-actions-snippet) for editor/linter harnesses.
name: sample-ci
on: [push]
jobs:
test:
runs-on: ubuntu-latest
steps:
- run: echo SAMPLE
Specifications
- Role
- tooling-config
- Wave
- I
What is a .yaml file?
YAML (YAML Ain't Markup Language) is a human-readable data-serialization format using indentation, key-value pairs, and lists, and is a superset of JSON. It supports comments, anchors, and multiple documents per file, favoring readability for configuration. Its indentation sensitivity makes it error-prone to hand-edit.
How to use this file
Use an example YAML file to test config parsers, indentation and anchor handling, multi-document streams, and safe-loading to avoid arbitrary object construction.
How to use this file for testing
“Code Config — Github Actions Snippet” is a deterministic Novus Examples fixture for Config parsing, Editor testing, Code parsing. TOML and INI configuration files with nested sections and typed values — for testing config parsers and loaders.
Documented properties for this file: tooling-config. Compare results against paired or grouped companions on this page when present (clean↔damaged, searchable↔scanned, or format twins) so scores stay reproducible across runs.
Download the file once, keep the path stable in CI or local scripts, and treat the spec table as the contract: dimensions, seeds, field lists, and roles are intentional. Corrupt or invalid samples are labelled as such — expect parsers to fail loudly rather than silently accept them.
This is a short, known-correct source file. Run it through your syntax highlighter, linter, formatter, tree-sitter grammar, or parser, and open it in the in-browser editor to tweak and re-download. Each snippet exercises comments, string escapes, literals, and language keywords.
Point your config loader at the file and assert it reads the documented sections and typed values, including any deliberately-tricky nesting or comments.
Code examples
import yaml # pip install pyyaml
with open("github-actions-snippet.yaml") as f:
data = yaml.safe_load(f)
print(data)Related files
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