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
Testing contract
Expected to recover- Scenario
- Parse the workflow with a GitHub Actions schema validator.
- Expected result
- It validates: one job `test`, `runs-on: ubuntu-latest`, one `run` step, and `on: [push]` as a flow sequence. Note the key `on` - a YAML 1.1 loader coerces the bare word `on` to the boolean true, so a parser that returns a `true` key instead of `"on"` is running YAML 1.1 semantics rather than the 1.2 core schema Actions expects.
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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