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Dev tools · October 26, 2026

Standfast

Know if your Mac's GitHub Actions runners will get work

Standfast launched on October 26, 2026 with 73 votes, #388 of 4,037 launches that month and more than 95% of that year's launches.

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What it does

A free macOS menu bar app for self-hosted GitHub Actions runners. It asks launchd whether each runner is alive and GitHub whether it still counts on it, and never mixes up the two answers.

Standfast is a free menu bar app for Macs that host GitHub Actions runners. It asks launchd whether each runner is alive, asks GitHub whether it still counts on it, and never mixes up the two answers. Not asked. A stopped service is the one thing known for sure, so Standfast spends no request on it. Registered, connected and waiting for work. The one you want to see. The status item shows one state for every runner on the Mac: a job in progress first, then whatever needs fixing, then the quiet states. Open the menu for one row per runner. A runner whose registration has lapsed keeps its process running. Activity Monitor still shows it and the service script still says it started. The next…from perafan18.github.io

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