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A GitHub App that scans an organization's workflow files for deprecated Node 20 action pins and opens bulk update PRs before the September 2026 removal

GitHub removed Node 20 as the default Actions runtime on June 16, 2026 and will fully remove it from runners on September 16, 2026. Thousands of third-party GitHub Actions that wrap JavaScript tooling are still pinned to the node20 runtime. When a maintainer of an action has not yet shipped a Node 24-compatible release, every repo using that action silently gets deprecation warnings or outright failures, and developers must manually audit every workflow YAML file across their org, identify every uses: pin, check whether each action has shipped a node24 release, and open individual PRs. Organizations with hundreds of repos are doing this entirely by hand. Multi-gitter (generic script runner across repos) and Dependabot (dependency version bumps) both exist but neither understands the node20 runtime compatibility layer inside action.yml files.

Score Breakdown

HN
172
GitHub
6

Gap Assessment

UnderservedExisting solutions leave gaps

Multi-gitter is a generic org-wide script runner and does not understand GitHub Actions node runtime semantics. Dependabot bumps version numbers but does not know whether the bumped version changed its runtime from node20 to node24. No tool specifically parses action.yml files to check runtime compatibility, identifies which actions have node24-compatible releases available, and auto-PRs version bumps. The gap is a node20-to-24 migration-aware GitHub App.