This action waits all GitHub Action jobs even if they are running in other workflows.
When some jobs failed, this action exit with NON 0 value. Otherwise exit with 0.

I mainly use this action for below use-case when they should run after multiple CI workflows

• Deploy to Firebase/Vercel/Netlify
• Release with GitHub releasing
• Auto approve and merge dependabot PRs without PAT(Personal Access Token)
• Auto approve and merge renovatebot PRs without platformAutomerge feature

This is the minimum configuration.
I recommend to use timeout-minutes together with.

jobs:
  with-waiting:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    steps:
      - name: Wait other jobs are passed or failed
        uses: kachick/[email protected]
        timeout-minutes: 15

You can change the token, status polling interval and turns early-exit as below.

with:
  github-token: "${{ secrets.YOUR_PAT }}"
  min-interval-seconds: '300' # default '30'
  retry-method: 'equal_intervals' # default 'exponential_backoff'
  early-exit: 'false' # default 'true'

Full list of the changeable parameters

Below is a typical usecase. Assume test jobs defined in another workflow.

name: Merge bot PR after CI
on: pull_request

permissions:
  contents: write
  pull-requests: write
  # checks: read # For private repositories
  # actions: read # For private repositories

jobs:
  dependabot:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    if: ${{ github.actor == 'dependabot[bot]' }}
    steps:
      - name: Dependabot metadata
        id: metadata
        uses: dependabot/[email protected]
        with:
          github-token: '${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}'
      - uses: actions/checkout@v3
      - name: Wait other jobs
        if: ${{steps.metadata.outputs.update-type != 'version-update:semver-major'}}
        uses: kachick/[email protected]
        timeout-minutes: 10
        with:
          github-token: '${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}'
      - name: Approve and merge
        if: ${{steps.metadata.outputs.update-type != 'version-update:semver-major'}}
        run: gh pr review --approve "$PR_URL" && gh pr merge --auto --squash "$PR_URL"
        env:
          PR_URL: ${{github.event.pull_request.html_url}}
          GITHUB_TOKEN: ${{secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN}}

  renovate:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    if: ${{ github.actor == 'renovate[bot]' }}
    steps:
      - uses: actions/checkout@v3
      - name: Wait other jobs
        uses: kachick/[email protected]
        timeout-minutes: 10
        with:
          github-token: '${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}'
      - name: Approve and merge
        run: gh pr review --approve "$PR_URL" && gh pr merge --auto --squash "$PR_URL"
        env:
          PR_URL: ${{github.event.pull_request.html_url}}
          GITHUB_TOKEN: ${{secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN}}

Judge OK or Bad with the checkRun state at the moment.
When some jobs will be triggerred after this action with needs: [distant-first], it might be unaccurate. (I didn't faced yet)

This action just requires following GITHUB_TOKEN permissions. Needless annoying setup and needless unsecure around PAT.

permissions:
  contents: write
  checks: read
  actions: read

I used a way to comment @dependabot merge in past. This is simple to ensure CI passed.
However it requires PAT(Personal Access Token).
PAT could't be reduced the permission scope to repository.
And it requires annoy steps to generate, sets and maintains tokens even if refined with beta version.

This action provides another way. It checks other workflows/jobs statuses in actions with GITHUB_TOKEN.

• Above merging logics are written in GitHub official docs. However GITHUB_TOKEN merged commit does not trigger new workflows even if defined as "push". So the badges will not be shown in commit history of default branch :<
  • ref: https://github.com/orgs/community/discussions/25251#discussioncomment-3247100

automerge is slow. platformAutomerge requires many repository settings.

When you feel no issues around that, do not need to migrate to this action.
It requires many changes in repository settings around Allow auto-merge, Require status checks to pass before merging and specify the checked workflow name.
Especially specifying mandatory CI names in all personal repositories are annoy task to me.
If we are talking only about organizations, hashicorp/terraform might resolve it easier.

Q:
What is failed to create review: Message: GitHub Actions is not permitted to approve pull requests.?

A:
Needs Allow GitHub Actions to create and approve pull requests to be enabled at https://github.com/{onwer}/{repo}/settings/actions.
See GitHub Blog for further detail.

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