# Repository actions dashboard

Source: https://refyneit.com/prompts/repository-actions-dashboard

A workflow operations surface for browsing runs, spotting failures, and safely dispatching an action.

## When to use it

It gives a coding agent the operational hierarchy, safe action flow, and edge states needed for a credible workflow UI.

## Prompt

Build a repository actions dashboard for [REPOSITORY OR AUTOMATION SYSTEM]. Start by studying repository guidance and existing components.

Create an operations-focused layout with a workflow rail, recent run list, status/duration/branch/actor metadata, a selected-run detail panel, and a deliberate “run workflow” action. Use believable seed data and clear relative plus absolute timestamps.

Use a refined dark theme with compact rows, strong alignment, restrained borders, and semantic status treatment that includes icons and text. Give failures and actionable states priority without making the whole page alarming. Avoid decorative dashboards and repeated cards where a list is more scannable.

Implement workflow selection, status/branch filtering, run detail, log-step expansion, refresh feedback, and a dispatch dialog with validation and confirmation. Include loading, no-runs, permission-denied, rate-limit, and failure states. Make dense desktop use keyboard-efficient; use a browse → detail flow on mobile.

Do not copy source branding. Verify filters, dialog focus, dispatch safety, responsive layouts, and accessibility. Report changed files, checks, and screenshots of overview and run detail.

## Adaptation and provenance

Adapted from Repo Actions Hub's workflow browsing and dispatch canvas with its committed preview.

Contributor: [@jamesmontemagno](https://github.com/jamesmontemagno)
Repository: https://github.com/github/awesome-copilot
Pinned commit: b95e24caae4f25c5985f8527fd092ccfed039c36
License: [MIT](https://github.com/github/awesome-copilot/blob/b95e24caae4f25c5985f8527fd092ccfed039c36/LICENSE)
- [extension](https://github.com/github/awesome-copilot/blob/b95e24caae4f25c5985f8527fd092ccfed039c36/extensions/repo-actions-hub/extension.mjs)
- [preview](https://github.com/github/awesome-copilot/blob/b95e24caae4f25c5985f8527fd092ccfed039c36/extensions/repo-actions-hub/assets/preview.png)
Review: output-reviewed, 2026-08-23. Reviewed the commit-pinned implementation and its committed preview image. The preview is representative source output, not a claim that this adapted prompt reproduces it pixel-for-pixel.
Reviewed output: https://refyneit.com/prompt-outputs/repo-actions-hub.png
Output source: https://github.com/github/awesome-copilot/blob/b95e24caae4f25c5985f8527fd092ccfed039c36/extensions/repo-actions-hub/assets/preview.png
Representative output committed by @jamesmontemagno in github/awesome-copilot, reviewed at b95e24ca.