AeroCI Tool Lets Developers Test GitHub Actions Workflows Locally Before Pushing

A developer has built AeroCI, an open-source command-line tool designed to act as a local twin for GitHub Actions workflows, reducing the repetitive push-fail-debug cycle. AeroCI executes real shell commands and injects standard GITHUB_* environment variables, rather than simulating a successful run, and explicitly flags steps it cannot reproduce locally. The tool provides commands to initialize configuration, validate workflow structure, and run jobs in isolated environments — each job and matrix combination gets its own copy of the project directory to better mirror real CI runner isolation. An analysis mode can detect dead or duplicated steps, unused outputs, and generate a workflow complexity score. Secrets are kept out of job sandboxes by default and exposed only through a dedicated secrets context.