actions-marketplace-validations/Mutex Action

A simple locking/unlocking mechanism to provide mutual exclusion in Github Actions

Trust Signals

workflow.ymlSHA-pinned

uses: actions-marketplace-validations/ben-z_gh-action-mutex@1ebad517141198e08d47cf72f3c0975316620a65 # no releases — HEAD as of 2026-07-10

tags can be moved; commit SHAs can't. why a SHA?

name	description	required	default
repo-token	The token for accessing the repo.	no	${{ github.token }}
github_server	The GitHub server URL without `https`. This might be useful for e.g. GHES	no	github.com
repository	The repository path that stores the lock. E.g `ben-z/gh-action-mutex`	no	${{ github.repository }}
branch	The branch to use for the mutex	no	gh-mutex
debug	Print debug output	no	false
internal_checkout-location	[Internal] The location to store the mutex repo	no	/run/gh-action-mutex/repo
ticket-id-suffix	Ticket id suffix to avoid identical values for parallel/matrix jobs in the same workflow run	no	default

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