GitHub Actions Artifacts Usage Report - February 2026

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Summary Statistics

• Analysis Period: Last 30 days (estimated)
• Workflows Analyzed: 8 workflows with artifacts
• Total Artifacts: 5,751
• Total Storage Used: 2.09 GB
• Average Artifact Size: 380.63 KB

Artifacts by Workflow

Workflow Name	Runs (30d)	Artifacts	Total Size	Avg Size	Status
Doc Build - Deploy	270	270	1.73 GB	6.39 MB	🟢 Active
Smoke Copilot	158	948	42.26 MB	45.58 KB	🟢 Active
Smoke Claude	152	912	40.68 MB	45.58 KB	🟢 Active
Smoke Codex	150	900	40.19 MB	45.58 KB	🟢 Active
CI Failure Doctor	138	690	33.00 MB	48.83 KB	🟢 Active
Resource Summarizer Agent	106	530	25.35 MB	48.83 KB	🟢 Active
Dev	50	250	11.92 MB	48.83 KB	🟢 Active
Artifacts Summary	83	83	811.00 KB	9.77 KB	🟢 Active

View Detailed Insights & Recommendations

📊 Key Findings

1. Doc Build - Deploy: 1.73 GB (270 artifacts)
2. Smoke Copilot: 42.26 MB (948 artifacts)
3. Smoke Claude: 40.68 MB (912 artifacts)

🔍 Artifact Patterns Observed

• Smoke Test Workflows (Copilot, Claude, Codex): Generate 6 artifacts per run
  • Artifacts: safe-output, agent-output, agent_outputs, cache-memory, agent-artifacts, threat-detection.log
  • Average: ~280KB per run
  • High frequency: 150+ runs in 30 days
• Doc Build - Deploy: Generates 1 large artifact per run (~6.7MB github-pages)
• Agent Workflows: Generate 4-6 artifacts per run (~250KB total)
• CI Workflow: ✅ No artifacts generated (optimized)

💡 Optimization Recommendations

1. Reduce Smoke Test Artifact Retention

• Impact: High (affects 460+ artifacts)
• Effort: Low (one-line change)
• Action: Change retention-days: 30 to retention-days: 7
• Savings: ~75% storage reduction for smoke tests

2. Consolidate Small Artifacts

• Impact: Medium
• Effort: Low
• Action: Combine safe-output, agent-output into single archive
• Benefit: Reduces API overhead and improves download performance

3. Compress Documentation Artifacts

• Impact: High
• Effort: Medium
• Action: Pre-compress github-pages artifacts before upload
• Savings: Potential 30-50% size reduction

4. Use GitHub Cache for Temporary Data

• Impact: Medium
• Effort: Medium
• Action: Replace cache-memory artifact with actions/cache
• Benefit: Automatic cleanup, faster access

⚙️ Implementation Examples

Reduce retention period:

- uses: actions/upload-artifact@v4
  with:
    name: safe-output
    path: outputs/
    retention-days: 7  # Reduced from 30

📈 Storage Impact Analysis

• Current 30-day storage: 2.09 GB
• Daily generation rate: 71.30 MB/day
• With 7-day retention: 641.45 MB (~70% reduction)
• Annual projection: 25.10 GB (at current rate)

🎯 Priority Actions

Priority	Action	Impact	Effort	Timeline
🔥 High	Set 7-day retention on smoke tests	75% reduction	Low	Immediate
📦 Medium	Consolidate small artifacts	20% reduction	Low	1 week
🗜️ Medium	Compress doc artifacts	30-50% reduction	Medium	2 weeks
♻️ Low	Migrate to GitHub Cache	Better performance	Medium	1 month

🎯 Recommended Next Steps

1. Immediate: Update smoke test workflows to use retention-days: 7
2. This Week: Consolidate related artifacts into single archives
3. This Month: Review and implement compression for large artifacts
4. Ongoing: Monitor this report weekly to track improvements

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References:

• §21558525416

Note: Estimates based on API sampling and observed patterns from recent workflow runs (last 30 days).

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